Portfolio Production
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Faculty/Staff Guide
The Portfolio Center is bundled together with a Career Development Specialist and Student Employment. We provide students with career information, portfolio preparation and job opportunities. And we work best when we work closely with faculty. Please read through the program descriptions below and contact us to collaborate.
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CLASS PRESENTATIONS: Presentations inform students about portfolio best practices and industry trends in their field. These visits also cover the services offered at the Portfolio Center. If you think your students (freshmen-seniors and graduate students) would benefit from a class presentation, please submit a request to come see us. Presentation Request Form WEB PORTFOLIOS: We now offer students two choices for developing an online portfolio. Our web building system, WebAgent, is available to all students. (Web building and hosting is free). At your request, we will set up accounts and schedule workshops for your entire class. We also offer discounted accounts with VIRB.com. VIRB offers students and faculty (!) all of the benefits of WebAgent in addition to more customizable features and sophisticated layouts. Seniors may be eligible to receive 12 months of free VIRB service. Workshops are available to introduce and guide students to using both systems. TALENT POOL: Be sure to tell your students about Talent Pool. This highly searchable web-based system connects students to potential employers and to other students seeking collaboration. Students create a profile that serves as a snapshot of their portfolio-in-progress and their immediate goals. Signing up is easy with an oasis login. Talent Pool has over 2000 student profiles and is growing every day. RESUMES and RESEARCH: Our website is a repository of online resources from Quick Guides for task-oriented instruction to tutorials for creating business plans and resume writing. Feel free to refer students to our website and let us know if you’d like us to develop new information or instruction in your area of interest. We also offer a Teaching Guide to help you build portfolio development into your syllabus.
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We are especially interested to work closely with capstone faculty to provide in-depth resources to your students. Let us know how we can work with you. SHOW OFF PORTFOLIO REVIEWS: Throughout the semester professionals visit us specifically to review your student’s work in 20 minute, one-on-one, meetings. INDUSTRY TREND SESSIONS: These sessions are scheduled during your class period and take place in the Portfolio Center. We’ll moderate a discussion about portfolios between a couple of (media specific) industry professionals and your students, followed by optional group portfolio reviews. It’s a great way to ease students into the portfolio development and presentation process. PORTFOLIO LAB: Students can receive graphic design assistance for all of their portfolio and branding needs from advance design students working in our Lab. Designers work one-on-one with students to create business cards, print books, press kits and more. Headshots and reel editing can also be arranged, pending demand. FINAL CRITIQUES: We invite you to hold your final critique in the Portfolio Center. We will invite appropriate professionals to review your student’s work, if you wish. |
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What else? You tell us. We're always looking for new ways to collaborate.
