Students
Websites and Web Portfolios can be used by students for a variety of academic and professional purposes.Your personal Web Portfolio should reflect your skills and abilities in relationship to your academic, professional, or social life. The Web Portfolio can be a valuable tool for gaining internships, freelance work, and a professional job. Students can also use PortfolioVillage websites for class projects and club websites.
Portfolios focus on the reflections of one’s work. They provide meaningful documentation of abilities. Student Web Portfolios may contain a resume, work samples, project documentation, work philosophies, course listings, and a list of competencies and skill sets. The Student Web Portfolio brings together curriculum, instruction, community involvement, and work experience in an organized fashion.
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Document and collect work from your college career in a meaningful presentation.
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Illustrate ideas and understanding of your major as well as any pertinent coursework, essays, and multimedia.
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Demonstrate competencies and capabilities as you pursue service-learning activities, internships, and other off-campus experiences.
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Secure possible admission to graduate school or future employment opportunities; record experiences for use in resumes or applications to employers or graduate schools.
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Provide your resume and work samples to potential internships and hiring managers with one URL.
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Professors & Teachers
 
Websites and web portfolios can be used by professors and k-12 teachers for a variety of academic and professional purposes.Your personal Web Portfolio should reflect your skills and abilities in relationship to your academic experience and professional activities. The Web Portfolio can be a valuable tool for use in promotion and tenure interviews, classroom and conference presentations, personel actions, scholarship, and landing an academic job.
Portfolios focus on the reflections of one’s work. They provide meaningful documentation of abilities. Professor and Teacher Web Portfolios may contain a CV/resume, student work, professional work samples, project documentation, videos and art, syllabi, teaching philosophies, lesson plans, scholarship evidence - photos-papers-reviews-awards, recommendations, course listings, and a list of competencies and skill sets. The Professor and Teacher Web Portfolio brings together curriculum, academic service, instruction, scholarship, community involvement, and work experience in an organized fashion.
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Illustrate themes and ideas critical to your teaching philosophies. Showcase student work.
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Display your capabilities, innovations, and creativities side by side.
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Can be customized to suit job searches, professional development, tenure, and teaching award applications.
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Provide your resume and work samples with one URL.
- Archive your papers and presentations in one place on the Web.
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Graduates & Job-seekers
 
Websites and Web Portfolios can be used by new and recent graduates and experienced job-seekers to kickstart the job search and set them apart from other candidates. The Web portfolio allows you to present your strengths directly to a potential employer...going beyond the resume. You can also put up your interactive resume, which can link directly to projects, text and other sites directly from your online resume. Your personal Web Portfolio should reflect your skills and abilities in relationship to your academic, professional, or social life. The Web Portfolio can be a valuable tool for gaining internships, freelance work, professional positions, and management/executive hires.
Portfolios focus on the reflections of one’s work. They provide meaningful documentation of abilities. New graduate Web Portfolios may contain a resume, professional profile, work samples, awards, volunteer work, project documentation, work history, education history, training, and a list of competencies and skill sets. The Student Web Portfolio brings together curriculum, instruction, community involvement, and work experience in an organized fashion.
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Document and collect work from throughout your career in a meaningful presentation.
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Illustrate ideas and understanding of your field with evidence of certifications, licenses, training, and professional development.
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Demonstrate competencies and capabilities as you pursue new career paths.
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Archive your projects and work samples.
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Provide your interactive resume and work samples to potential internships and hiring managers with one URL.
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Business Owners
For a business, a Website, in many cases serves
as an information tool.
-Company information
-Product and service information
-Contact information
-Static, cyclical content
A Web Portfolio serves as a promotional tool.
-USP (Unique selling proposition)
-FAB (Features and benefits)
-Tangible Evidence (Project cases & work samples)
-Grows with the business
Your business Web portfolio is a platform for presentation and communication on the internet. It becomes a vital tool in integrated marketing communications, which mixes sales, marketing, advertising, branding, and public relations activities into a cohesive campaign. Web Portfolios can be integrated into your existing website as a micro-site or into existing page structures to elevate your website to being a web portfolio. Micro-sites can be added to initiate new and ongoing campaigns. A PortfolioVillage website allows the business owner to control, edit, and enhance the site without reliance on programmers and designers...And with much less costs.
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All Majors & Career Areas
These items should be included in your
Web Portfolio regardless of discipline or field:
Your name
E-mail address
Resume
List of courses taken
School projects
Career summary
Functional skills list
Course project/paper samples
Community involvement
Volunteer projects
Extra-curricular projects
Computer skills
Multimedia clips
Items we do not recommend including in
your Electronic/Web Portfolio:
Letters of recommendation (send them later)
References (these may change)
Home Address (keep it private on the web version of the resume)
Non-professional, work or education related materials (save these for your FB page)
Work samples containing proprietary or confidential information
Group oriented projects without written permission of co-contributors (Ask, before posting)
Photos of people without permission (ask)
Personal information (age, gender, marital status, ethnicity)
Education Areas
Types of projects:
Teaching philosophy
Lesson plans
Class activities
Professional development plans
Continuing education classes
Field observation
Needs assessments
Classroom & behavior management
Parental involvement
Educational/cognitive development
Educational theory utilization
Behavioral modification
Typical skills:
Teaching
Training
Oral & written communication
Analytical
Problem solving
Conflict resolution
Parental communication
Evaluation
Statistics
Research
Leadership
Motivation
Marketing, Communication,
English & Journalism Areas
Types of projects:
Press releases
Publicity flyers
Mock marketing campaigns
Sales and marketing strategies
Brochure designs
News articles
Advertising/marketing plans
Benchmarking & market research
Demo tapes (audio & video)
Essays
Case Studies
Research reports
Multimedia clips
Typical skills:
Advertising
Oral & written communication
Interpersonal
Promotions
Newswriting
Fundraising
Customer service
Marketing
Analytical
Sales
Event planning
Internet research
Market research
Theme writing/broadcasting
Production
Editing
Copywriting
Graphic design
Project management
Business Related Areas
Types of projects:
Corporate audit/financial analysis
Economic policy
Consumer behavior
International trade/policy
Investment portfolio management
Management strategies
Organizational research
Operations management
Case studies
Project management
Forecasting
Typical skills:
AR/AP
Audit & tax
Forecasting & budgeting
Financial analysis
Sales & sales management
Lead generation/cold calling
Client management
Research
Management
Customer service
Supervision & training
Project managemen
Engineering & Technical Areas
Types of projects:
Software design
Engineering design
Illustrations of computer knowledge
Computer-aided design
Programming
Web site design
Hardware & software design/testing
System optimization
Robotic design
Electronic design
Thermodynamics
Control systems
Quality control
Multimedia clips
Typical skills:
Analytical
Project development
Problem solving
Testing & evaluation
Database design
Networking
Troubleshooting
Computer training
Project management
Presentation
Research
Design & implementation
Programming
Technical writing
Statistical analysis
Visual & Performing Arts Areas
Types of projects:
Performances
Publications
Shows and exhibitions
Research projects
Teaching
Performance groups
Graphic design
Historical preservation & curation
Typical skills:
Writing
Research
Design
Acting, singing & performing styles
Choreography, singing & directing styles
Painting, drawing & sculpting styles
Printmaking & photography styles
Lighting, production & scene design
Dialects
Criticism
Composition
Human Resources & Human
Resources Development Areas
Types of projects:
Training manuals
Candidate assessment questions & evaluations
Performance evaluations
Human resource policy evaluations
Labor relations/collective bargaining involvement
Employee training & orientations
Legal compliance practices
Benefits & compensation studies
Documentation projects
Training & workshop delivery
Typical skills:
Assessment & program evaluation
Instructional design
Labor relations & collective bargaining
Diversity
Performance appraisals
Conflict resolution
Legal issues & compliance
Change management & strategic planning
Training & career development
Recruiting & interviewing
Benefits administration
Organizational design
Benefits & compensation
Nursing, Health Sciences, Science
& Mathematics Areas
Types of projects:
Research
Analytical analysis
Hypothesis testing
Training/educational opportunities
Clinicals, labs and internships
Conference presentations
Publications
Teaching & training
Safety & compliance
Wellness/fitness plans
Practicums
Individual & group consultations
Typical skills:
Assessment & documentation
Customer service
Teaching & training
Research
Evaluation
Analysis
Statistical analysis
Testing
Clinical skills
Oral, written & presentation skills
Applied technique & theory knowledge
Languages and Foreign Studies Areas
Types of projects:
Translations
Cultural research
Foreign customs
Business etiquette
Historical and geographical study
Study abroad experiences
Typical skills:
Proficiency/Fluency in oral language
Proficiency/Fluency in written language
Translation
Teaching
Training
Social Science Areas
Types of projects:
Survey design & analysis
Statistical reports
Research
Community involvement
Political involvement
Fundraising
Government interaction
Public administration
Cultural studies
Typical skills:
Research
Statistics
Assessment
Survey design
Community development
Outreach
Volunteer coordination
Legal knowledge & law enforcement
Diversity
Interpersonal relations
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