SPCC ePortfolio

 

An ePortfolio is a digital collection of your best college

work that includes reflective writing to provide academic and lived experience contexts to demonstrate your learning over time. Artifacts

are included to support and narrate your learning story such as

academic work samples, photos, images, videos, audio, and other contextual elements like design and layout. All of the components work together to provide a comprehensive story of what you have learned.

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Dr. Kathleen Yancey, Professor Emeritus at Florida State University, defines a portfolio as a metatext, or writing that provides commentary on the works in the collection. When you are writing the ePortfolio pages based on your academic work, you are creating a metatext.

A portfolio has the following features:

• The collected works are selected from a larger body of evidence and new writing is created to provide commentary for evaluation.

• Reflective writing directs viewers through the portfolio and assists evaluation.

• Reveals individuality in students and in the contents of the portfolio.

·     It shows what is important to the ePortfolio creator (Yancey 130).  

  

The process of making the ePortfolio teaches a mindful process where students contemplate their experiences from the past and compare them with experiences along the way. They can think about the meaning of their academic and lived experiences and why they are significant to their future profession. The thinking that comes from actively considering what, why, and how they have learned leads them to understanding themselves as learners.

By telling their stories through the pages of the ePortfolio, students will demonstrate their academic and self-knowledge.

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Viewers essential to your future success can explore the story of your associate’s degree achievements in a multi-media format. 

• Faculty can write stronger recommendations using specific examples and details for university admissions, scholarships, or employment. Even faculty who know you best will benefit from seeing your ePortfolio before writing your recommendation.

• Individual assignments are snapshots of your development, but the ePortfolio creates a comprehensive argument for your learning at the college.

• If scholarship or admissions applications do not require ePortfolio, reference it in your essay and include a link.

• Networking. Share your ePortfolio with SPCC faculty, your transfer institution, peers, prospective employers, family, and friends.

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Design choices are up to you, as long as the following components are included:

• Welcome

• Personal introduction

• Short-term and long-term learning goals

• Core Skills artifacts and reflections

• Program artifacts and reflections

• Additional Educational Experiences 

• Resume

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Work Cited

Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Portfolio, Electronic, and the Links Between.”

            ---“Electronic Portfolios a Decade into the Twenty-first Century:                        What We Know, What We Need to Know.”

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