Presentation Portfolio
Purpose
Technical Requirements
Presentation Options
... a presentation portfolio is a portfolio intended to showcase the owner's professional capabilities in relation to a specific professional objective and stands as evidence of assertions in the professional's resume.
Purpose
The presentation portfolio is some sub-set of evidentiary experiences and accompanying reflections drawn from the digital repository and fashioned by the presenter to showcase his or her professional capacities in relation to a specific professional goal—e.g., a specific professional position. As a result, the professional is likely to prepare multiple presentation portfolios to meet specific objectives over the course of a professional career.
Given the capabilities of the Web as a medium of communication, a growing number of LIS professionals maintain a continuous, changing public interface to presentation portfolio materials in the form of blogs and other social media while also creating limited-access portfolios tailored to meet specific needs as they arise. In LIS 596, students prepare at least one presentation portfolio for peer review and facilitator assessment that relates to one or more specific purposes defined by the student at the beginning of the course.
Presentation Portfolio Technical Requirements
The technical requirements and iSchool expectations for the presentation portfolio are, quite frankly, high. The following requirements fulfill the LIS 596 technical requirements for the presentation portfolio.
- Must be web-based;
- Cannot be on your personal computer;
- Must be on a secured server with consistent backups and disaster recovery;
- Must include significant (and appropriate) uses of media beyond text among which are streamed presentations, images, and video/sound;
- Must have managed access—technical capacity to grant access to others (specifically instructors and peers in LIS 596);
- Unless unavailable, the presentation portfolio must not rely on resources housed in namespaces outside the control of the presenter (e.g., no broken links to resources documenting a group project because of actions of others outside the control of the presenter); and
- Includes only experiences/outcomes for which the presenter has documentary artifacts and reflections evidencing the professional quality of the experience--"a portfolio is opinion backed by fact." If there are no "facts", there is only unsubstantiated opinion.
Presentation Options
In its web-based form, the Presentation portfolio can be presented in one of many ways. The array of mechanisms for providing a Web presence for the presentation portfolio grows continuously; and, it is not our intent to dictate the solution in LIS 596. Like the technology deployed for the working portfolio repository, the solution chosen by the student should be one that the student can manage (or learn to manage) and that can grow as the portfolio demands grow over time. It is possible that as the student professional gains experience with the technologies of presentation and communication, the choice of technical platform may change (with the accompanying need to migrate data or to reference/link across platforms). These decisions belong to the student since they represent relatively long-term choices with which the student must "live". However, some potential current platforms for the presentation portfolio for LIS 596 include (but are certainly not limited to):
- Web pages
- Google sites
- Microsoft Small Business Web site
- Blogging and publication sites
- Etc.
See also Portfolio Design, Development & Tools
Last updated: Thursday, 31-Mar-2011 09:24:54 PDT
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