Before you begin...
Below are five steps for building a successful electronic portfolio. As you work on your doogiefolio™ using our Web-based electronic portfolio tool, you can easily access our online resources for assistance.
- Reflect — Reflect on what you've accomplished in school and in your career, and how it fits with your goals.
- Collect — Collect the information for your electronic portfolio. To learn more about what to include, read below.
- Select — Select those documents that are most pertinent to your goals and keep them handy as you work on your electronic portfolio.
- Build — Build your site using using our Web-based electronic portfolio tool. For ideas on what you can do with your electronic portfolio, see examples of doogiefolios™ currently in use.
- Publish — Publish your portfolio.
What to Include
Everyone's electronic portfolio is unique because our experiences and goals are different. The scope of your electronic portfolio is limited only by your imagination. Consider including:
- Welcome: Summarize who you are and a bit about what visitors will find in your electronic portfolio. Give your audience a flavor for what you're all about and let them know what you value.
- Career or educational objective: Write a statement summarizing your objective. To be meaningful, your objective should be as specific as possible.
- Résumé or curriculum vita: Summarize your education, achievements, and work experience. Include detailed information on your skills.
- Assignments or work samples: This information is as diverse as your background. Upload articles, papers, projects, reports, and publications so your audience can see your work. You can even include computer graphics, audio and video.
- Awards and honors: Scan certificates of awards, honors and scholarship letters.
- Additional education: List conferences, seminars, workshops and any other professional development. Add courses, degrees, certifications, and licenses.
- Volunteer and extracurricular activities: List your activities or illustrate through a photo. Students, consider music, sports and plays.
- References: List three to five people who have agreed to talk about your strengths, abilities and experience. Be sure to include full contact information.
- Letters of recommendation and testimonials: Include praise you've received from employers, customers, professors, and colleagues.
- Military records, awards, and badges: Include when applicable.
