Exploring Your Digital Portfolio

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    With everything shifting online, it has become no question that a digital portfolio is key in today's day and age. This fall semester, I took a General Education course specializing in building my digital portfolio with Professor Calderwood at Stockton University. In just one semester, I learned how to build my own personal learning network, improve my LinkedIn and produce creative content using various websites such as Blogger.com, Prezi, Animoto, Google Tour builder, Canva and more. This course had a variety of lesson plans and offered hands-on experience for the real world. The lesson plans ranged from doing hands-on assignments where we were able to produce content for our digital portfolios to group projects where we analyzed other projects in order to improve our own. Furthermore, Professor Calderwood would often have guest speakers join our Zoom calls to speak about the working world. Through this, I learned a multitude of things, ranging from how my major can be applicable to other jobs I didn't even initially think of, how to ace an interview, how to utilize LinkedIn to the fullest and how to reach out and ask for a letter of recommendation from my professional connections. 



I enjoyed this course as it allowed me to tap into my creative side and take a break from my mundane school work, although writing the weekly blog posts could be tedious at times. On the other hand, it has definitely improved my writing skills, and it was nice to be writing something that wasn't a research paper! This course also utilized the book, Light, Bright & Polite by Josh Ochs, where I did find some of the chapters useful, but at the same time, I felt like I was not learning new lessons since the book was aimed more towards high schoolers. Additionally, I would have like to learn more about building the ideal resume. Aside from this, the course was still useful and a great general education class. I am able to apply these lessons to work and school. I had the most fun building my own website. If you would like to check it out, click the button below!



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