STUDENTS
Basic help on connecting to and using your ePortfolio can be found by:
More detailed help can be obtained by sending an e-mail to eportfoliohelp@vancouver.wsu.edu.
For Tri-Cities faculty and students contact Joe Judy (jjudy@tricity.wsu.edu, 509 372-7449).
Express yourself with your audience in mind, showing your strengths and works that are leading you through your educational experiences. You need to keep in mind that readers and reviewers of your ePortfolio will be peers, faculty, counselors, future employers, family members, and, of course, friends. Your language needs to be chosen carefully to put yourself in your best light, reflecting you to others who might not know you personally. Approach your ePortfolio as you would an academic challenge. Each time you associate work with a matrix, you'll be asked to certify that your work is original work written or created by you or is cited properly. Similar to any work you produce in your college classes, your ePortfolio should contain work that has been produced according to the standards and style guidelines of the fields you work in.
1. Learn more about yourself through reflection about your learning.
2. Monitor your progress on your personal educational goals and the University's Learning Goals.
3. Integrate the bits and pieces that contribute to your learning.
4. Interact with the campus community around the Campus Theme of Global Change in a Local Context.
5. Keep track of your co-curricular activities on and off campus.
6. Document your plans for a personal, educational, or professional project
and reflect on your progress at key points.
7. Keep your projects and assignments in one secure location.
8. Reflect on what have you learned thus far in life, school, or the workplace.
9. Document and reflect on your leadership experiences.
10. Present a final research paper to those who will evaluate it.
11. Keep track of your professional references.
12. Upload evidence of your personal, educational, and professional accomplishments.
13. Write about the competencies and skills you have acquired in preparation
for your future profession and give examples of how you will use them.
14. Create different resumes and presentations of your career documents
for different employers, according to your career objectives and the positions
they advertise.
15. Keep a secure journal of your private reflections.
16. Reflect upon the strengths and weaknesses of your experience as a member
of a professional organization or society.
17. Upload representative work samples from your courses and other educational
activities.
18. Upload digital pictures of artwork that you have created along with
reflections on your creative process.
19. Support your application for graduate school by presenting evidence
of your best undergraduate work.
20. Upload evidence documenting why your participation in a particular
co-curricular activity will help you after graduation.