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Well, it's finally time to put all the pieces together. In this final assignment, we'll upload all the files that you have collected for your portfolio. The Portfolio Handbook identified 4 major components for your portfolio:

1. Goal-Setting: The establishment of clear, specific, and measurable goals, and the steps needed to achieve them.
2. Assessment of Achievement: Your own self-assessment of how well you’ve accomplished the objectives of specific assignments, specific courses, your major, and the core.
3. Self-Reflection: This might include some evaluation of where you are in relation to the overall University Objectives, the objectives of your major, and your own chosen goals and career plans: what you have achieved and what you need to achieve.
4. Selection of Work: Careful evaluation and selection of the most appropriate material for your portfolio

You are free to identify and label your materials in any way you want. However, it is important to have your materials organized so that there is some inherent logic in your portfolio. An assortment of files haphazardly loaded on the server and hyperlinked hardly provide a comprehensive or integrative perspective on an individual's experience and capabilities. Refer back to your notes about the portfolios we looked at early in the course. What organizational formats made sense to you? Which portfolios seemed to be just a collection of stuff with no apparent interior logic or "glue" to hold them together? (You may want to revisit some of those sites to refresh your memory.) 

All portfolios are housed on PLU servers accessed through the Digital Media Center (DMC) in the Library. The DMC has developed user-friendly software called Uedit which can be used to modify one of several prepared templates to fit your own tastes and to provide a gateway to your portfolio. Uedit is accessible at http://chili.plu.edu/uedit/ . You will need to log in with your ePass username and password. After you have accessed the Uedit interface, you can click on the help command to download a handy 3-page user guide to familiarize yourself with the way Uedit works. Because of the unique characteristics of Uedit, you will need to download the Mozilla FireFox browser to your machine in order to work with the Uedit interface. FireFox is available for free at http://www.mozilla.org/ .

Copyright © 2008 Gerald M. Myers
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