Lesson 3: Blog as e-Portfolio

121095 HIRAKI, Eriko

THINK
Before you began this course, how would you show others (and yourself) evidence of what you know and what you can do?

Before I started this course, I have made a blog, and recorded a lot of my works and experiences. Also, usually with in-class presentations, I have often used handouts, slide shows (power point), and charts, since it is easy to get ideas with visual figures. Moreover, other than in-class presentations, I could actually use physical motions to show what I could do.


EXPLORE
1. Do you need an e-portfolio? In your own words, briefly explain what you understand an e-portfolio is.

I need an e-portfolio since it is very easy to carry out a lot of tour knowledge. As the presentation showed, e-portfolio has many positive points. With it, we don't have to carry around heavy folders, all of the information from books if we write in our e-portfolio, and we can find directly where all of my information is.
As the most important premise, in order to make our e-portfolio useful, we have to spend much time to improve them. This makes our e-portfolio special.

2. What content may you want to add to your e-portfolio? Think about content that will tell important things about what you know and what you can do, that you would like others to learn about you. Please make a list of your ideas.

*links for pictures
*links for study
*links for databases
I would like to add some links and pictures in order to show my experiences.
As a support for my academic works, I can link to the blog which I used with the group work in the other class, Development Study. Also, I would like to put my slideshows and academic essays on my e-portfolio.
With my part time job as a waitress at a hotel, I have attended many wedding receptions, conferences and so on. Unfortunately, talking about the contents of personal events is not allowed because of terms of privacy. Therefore, it is not workable in e-portfolio. When we make e-portfolio, we have to consider human rights, too.
As personal activities, I can show my pictures of the volunteer work and my sport activities, attaching my homepage as link, and so on.


3. What do you see as some of the main advantages or disadvantages in having an e-portfolio in addition to a traditional resume?

Comparing "Athletic trainer" and "University Student", with the resume of "Athletic trainer", one of the major advantages is simple and easy to catch the information with simple look, since its amount of information is not too much. However, resume can be easy to lose, and might be heavy when it contains a bunch of sheets, which can be its disadvantage.

With the e-portfolio of "University Student", one of the major advantages is that some contents can appeal with visual motion. Also, e-portfolio can easily show makers' characteristic since e-portfolio can have infinite possibility to be improved with many functions.


EXPLORE
Write a post reflecting on your blog as an e-Portfolio with reference to the four SCICU Key Questions.

Basically, only skill the users need is the one to access my e-portfolio. Once they access to it, they can easily find my profile, posts. Also, in order to see my linked photo sites, the users should have an account on Yahoo! and facebook. With my e-portfolio, the users can see some different quotes each time. Those quotes make readers happy, that is why I put them in my e-portfolio. Furthermore, I have some links, in my link list, which are useful for searching for academic resources, the databases of ICU library and American Embassy. Whenever and whoever wants to look for them, people can easily take a step.
Through developing my e-portfolio, of course I learned how to use it, and how to upload my photos. What's more, I have often considered of "how users can understand about me". E-portfolio is not only we post or upload pictures; we make our e-portfolio for "readers". It was very hard, and still is hard, but through this Social Computing course, I would like to create more useful e-portfolio by anyone.