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Portfolio Guidelines for Students Who Entered the Instructional Systems Program
IN/AFTER FALL 2005
We are continuing to refine the guidelines and will be providing additonal support and examples to you. Check the website often and ask your advisor for any new information that becomes available.
The purpose of the new portfollio system is to help you prepare a portfolio that will assist you in your job search. You should begin working on your portfolio from the day you enter the program and use it to articulate the skills you'll need for your future job and to plan your coursework in the program.
For more detailed information about completing this task, please refer to the following:
Masters Portfolio Procedures As of Fall 2005
(Download pdf)
[Updated January 3rd, 2006]
This document includes detailed procedures for the masters portfolio.
Master's Portfolio Review Form (Word Document)
Faculty reviewers will use this form to evaluate your portfolio.
Instructional Systems Competencies As Of April 2005
(Download pdf)
Use this competency list as a guide but not as an exhaustive list to the core competencies that are typically required of graduates in our field.
Resources for Portfolio Preparation (for portfolio procedures after Fall 2005)
- Personal Goal Statement Outline (Word document) [Updated January 3rd, 2006]
Here is a suggested outline for a personal goal statement. Feel free to modify it as you find appropriate. However, keep in mind that there should be a clear alignment between your personal goals, key skills you have identified for accomplishing these goals and products included in the portfolio.
- Examples of Annotations (pdf document)
Each product or excerpt of a product you include in the portfolio should be accompanied by an annotation – a brief description of the purpose of the product, what competencies it signifies, and other information. Here are several examples (pdf) of annotations and artifacts from the portfolio that Dr.Vanessa Dennen prepared while she was still as a student at Indiana
University. Use these as your guide to the format and content of annotations.
- Example of a Master's Portfolio
The three files below represent a complete master's portfolio that one of our Master's students Eric Sikorski created in Fall 2005 in accordance with the NEW portfolio procedures. The portfolio consists of three PDF files - his resume, goal statement and portfolio with artifacts and annotations. It was developed to be a print-based portfolio. If you were developing an electronic portfolio, you would likely use a different approach for chunking and connecting the information. Pay attention to the organization of the portfolio. It is organized based on key ISD skill areas such as analysis, design and so on. You may choose to follow the same structure or devise your own, but you should think about a consistent way of organizing your work.resume (pdf)
goal statement (pdf)
portfolio (pdf)
- Examples of Electronic Portfolios
(under new procedures)
Ediana Gomez
Portfolio created by Eddie Gomez, ODL online major. This is a good example of navigation.
http://www.edianas.com/portfolio/Jennifer Bigus Portfolio
This is an example of a portfolio that follows the new procedures by an ODL Major.
http://www.bigusbooks.com/mastersportfolio/Jean-Marc Wise Portfolio
This is another new procedure example by an IS major.
http://www.jukeboxlive.com/portfolioMalcolm Conway Portfolio
The portfolio is entitled: A_Portfolio_Malcolm_Conway.exe. It works best if you download it to your PC and then open it. This enables the media, such as video of the author, to work without overloading your PC's 'temp' memory. The portfolio was authored using TrainerSoft.
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~mwc05c/artifacts/
- Portfolio and Job Search Advice from IS Program Alumni
As we begun instituting the new portfolio procedure, we asked our program alumni to give students advice regarding format and content of their porrtfolios and other strategies as they prepare for their job search. Visit this page to view excerpts from their e-mails with attachments that feature example resumes and other documents.
- Indiana University Instructional Systems and Technology Program Website
We have adopted our new portfolio procedure from the one used at Indiana University. Follow this link to access online examples of portfolios produced by students in IU’s Instructional Systems Technology program. We will post portfolios produced by FSU’s students as soon as these become available.
- FSU Career Center
FSU Career center provides assistance with job search, writing resumes, and other services.