In my role as a faculty member at Full Sail University, I created an integrative portfolio development program which helps students embarking on a journey of self-discovery to articulate their aspirations and abilities and meaningfully showcase their skills to an employer, client, or collaborator.
The inspiration for Portfolio Play Date v7 came to me the way all my best ideas do… while driving!
Portfolio Play Date v6 was inspired by the virtual photo shoot I sat for with famed photographer Jeremy Cowart earlier in quarantine.
Through a mixed media expression of poetry and photography, the idea was to take a single image that captures truth and pair it with a haiku to communicate the desired sentiment.
When we talk about a portfolio in the realm of finance, we're talking about a collection of assets that, depending on their value, contribute to your net worth.
As part of a recent student-led project initiative in our Portfolio course, Rafe pitched the idea of exploring visual metaphor through what he called a “Fortune Walk”.
Last September, I had the good fortune to sit on a panel with my ShapingEDU colleagues to discuss student-led and flexible learning initiatives.
The word “portfolio” gets thrown around a lot when it comes to applying for colleges and for jobs in a wide variety of artistically inclined professional positions.
At Full Sail University, flexible learning means elevating student voice and student choice.
I am convinced that while the online environment is inherently different than a face-to-face classroom, there is still the opportunity to engage students deeply with the content and the instructor.
Rather than tired instructional videos, we encouraged students to create something that reflected on or contextualized their experience with goal setting.
This term marks 2 years since I shifted my instructional focus from web design to student portfolio development.
As a portfolio mentor, I have no set curriculum to teach - no single set of concepts or techniques to stand on (or behind) as the basis of my relationships with my students.
