Building an Employment Portfolio - The University of Iowa College of Education

Building an Employment Portfolio
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Your ePortfolio folder is private, with access limited to College of Education faculty and students. The Employment folder is a separate public web space that allows you to display selected materials to potential employers and others. A password is not needed to view items stored in the Employment folder. The URL for your Employment ePortfolio is:: http://employment.education.uiowa.edu/YOUR HAWKID
Note: You should already have an Employment folder in your web space. If not you need to request one from the College of Education web server administrator:: coe-edserver@uiowa.edu

Two approaches:

1. Mirror your current ePortfolio

Sample employment portfolio

You can simply copy the web folder for your ePortfolio on your USB or Zip disk to the Employment folder in your web site with WS_FTP. Your Employment folder will mirror your ePortfolio. (See illustration above) See below for uploading instructions. This method sometimes can cause you to run out of web space so be particularly careful about image file size.

2. Copy selected artifacts from your ePortfolio to your employment portfolio

Sample alternate employment portfolio

On your USB drive, make a new folder named employment. Inside it make a new folder named web.

Open the eportfolio/web folder on your USB and copy standards.htm and the images folder. Make sure you COPY and don't CUT. You want copies in both places. Paste the file and folder inside the new employment/web folder. Select standards.htm in the employment/web folder and rename it index.htm.

In a similar way, copy the pages you want from eportfolio/web into employment/web. The simplest thing to do is copy the entire course folder that contains the pages so you don't leave image files behind.

Open SharePoint Designer and, under the File menu, choose Open Site. Browse to the USB drive and double-click the new employment folder to open it. Select the web folder and click Open.

In Designer, open index.htm (the former standards page). Add your identifying info at the top of the page. The employment site is available to the public on the internet so don't include your home address or phone number. Delete links to unused assignments. Re-do the links to the pages you want to use.

Upload your employment web folder to your web space

Using WS_FTP access your ePortfolio account. Note the employment folder on the right-hand window.
NOTE: WS_FTP (approximately 6MB) is available for download at
https://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/software/download/wsftp/
Double-click the employment folder on the right hand side and you should see the web folder within it.
Locate and open your eportfolio folder (if you're copying everything) or the new employment folder (if you've re-worked the standards page and copied selected assignments) on your USB flash drive or Zip disk. Click the web folder to select it.
Click the right arrow to transfer the web folder to the employment folder on the server.
To view your employment ePortfolio go the URL: employment.education.uiowa.edu/YOUR HAWKID

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