Purpose
These exercises are designed to stimulate critical thinking.
They create an opportunity for you to reflect upon the skills that you have developed though
both your academic and outside experiences.
They also provide you with the opportunity to visualize your future academic and career goals.
And they facilitate your planning to meet those goals.
These exercises should produce some useful ideas and concepts that can help guide your future studies as well as provide
input for your online portfolio. Additionally, they provide an opportunity for you to interact with your classmates
concerning issues that you have in common.
Portfolio
Research at Stanford University has determined that a portfolio can be defined as a "purposeful collections of
artifacts that characterize the learning experiences of the portfolio owner."
EduCause Quartely defines a Web-Based electronic portfolio as "…a compendium of materials that document and demonstrate
a person's accomplishments and career readiness." At the University of British Columbia,
"E-portfolios are personalized, web-based collections of work, responses to work and reflections that are used to
demonstrate key skills and accomplishments ..."
Here, a minimum class portfolio consists of 6 web-pages. Each portfolio has a home page that serves as an introduction to the site. Through a consistent hyperlinked navigation system, the home page invites the audience to visit the remaining portfolio pages. Other portfolio pages include a goals page, a skills page, a FAQ, a resume page, and an Internet Technologies page.