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Electronic Career Portfolios. What is a Portfolio?. An organized collection of evidence that shows your accomplishments both in and out of school,
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What is a Portfolio? • An organized collection of evidence that shows your accomplishments both in and out of school, • contains samples of your work that exhibit and reveal the quality and variety of your learning, your accomplishments, your skills, and your experiences. • Document your journey through the career development process. A student’s portfolio should contain information pertaining to self-assessment, showcase exemplary student products or projects, and reveal student personal reflections. According to Wonacott (2001).
What are ECPs? • Electronic Career Portfolios are a way in which students can explore, document and store their career aspirations, strengths, interests, and accomplishments. • They are no different than the Career Portfolios of the past, except that you are putting all the information onto the computer to store and organize.
Why bother? • Tool in which students can learn, discover and document their growth • Focuses students and allows them to think about their future • Gives the students a place to organize and keep all their accomplishments and career related information; great for referring to for scholarship applications, career research projects needed for certain post-secondary programs, job applications, creating résumés, etc. • Students are able to invite others to view their ECPs - employers, potential post-secondary institutions, etc.
Using Career Cruising • All schools in the division have their own passwords. • If you don’t know yours, see your teacher or career counsellor • Once you have logged in at www.careercruising.com, the first thing the students or teacher should do is to create a portfolio: everything you do on this website can be saved to your portfolio (your portfolio username and password can be used on the main page for future log ins) • Each teacher can monitor the progress of their students through Career Cruising CAMS www.careercruising.com/school
Career Cruising Lesson Plans • Career Cruising also has lesson plans for teachers to use. • If you log on to www.careercruising.com ; on the top items, the farthest to the left is an “I”. • Looks like this • You will get to a teachers page; click on “Classroom Activities and Resource Projects” • You will get all the Career Cruising lesson plans and portfolio activities.