1. Creating a Career Portfolio Pathfinder
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder

2. Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder
General Information
Library Type: College
This pathfinder is designed for any two or four year college student who is required or needs to create a portfolio or E-portfolio.
The content of this pathfinder will help students to answer the following questions:
What is a Career Portfolio?
Why a Career Portfolio
How to Create a Portfolio
The purpose of this PowerPoint presentation is to:
Demonstrate the use of this format as one of many tools that may be used to create a portfolio
In addition to demonstrate how easy it is to create and use.
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder

3. Questions to be Answered
What is a Career Portfolio?
Why a Career Portfolio?
How to create a Portfolio?
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder

4. Pathfinder Content: Instructions: Click on any of the below buttons to find selected resources for each of the topics listed.
Print Reference Resources
EBook Resources
Database Reference Resources
Article Selection from Databases
Websites
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder

5. What is a Career Portfolio?
Why a
Career Portfolio?
These documents highlight professional standards and skills.
How to create a Portfolio?
Reviewed contents will aid in the development of a portfolio.
A Career Portfolio would contain a collection of samples of your work-
Written
Visual
- To show to prospective employers.
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder

6. General Lesson Information
Number of Students: 1
Type of Students or Class: College Senior who will be graduating in May of 2012.
Location of Lesson: Provide an invitation to view PowerPoint presentation.
Method of Delivery: Internet – virtual classroom setting
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder

7. Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder
Lesson Plan
This is an interactive PowerPoint presentation pathfinder for Creating a Career Portfolio.
The presentation can be accessed by sending the participant an notification for a shared document located on Google Docs.
The presentation is a non-linear PowerPoint presentation that is designed to click the complete presentation one slide at a time or can be used to view subjects of interest only.
The use of this pathfinder tool will enable others to understand the content, types of formats and other useful tools for creating a career portfolio. This presentation will also highlight the use of Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation software as an optional format to host a career portfolio.
Note: Slides 6, 7, 8 9 will be hidden from student or participate during sharing.
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder

8. Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder
Questionnaire
Was this presentation helpful to locate resources to answer the questions in slide number 6?
Did the pathfinder tool answer an additional questions that were not listed on slide number 6?
What were some of the lessons learned from using this pathfinder tool?
Any suggestions to improve on this pathfinder tool?
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder

9. Summary of Sharing a Pathfinder
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder

10. Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder
Questionnaire
1. Was this presentation helpful to locate resources to answer these questions:
What is a Career Portfolio?
Why a Career Portfolio?
How to create a Portfolio?
2. Did the pathfinder tool answer any additional questions?
3. What were some of the lessons learned from using this pathfinder tool?
4. Suggestions to improve on this pathfinder tool?
Summary Results
My student indicated that she already had a good understanding on what a career portfolio was and why it is an important tool. What she was looking for was information and suggestions for what should be included in a career portfolio. My student did indicate that the pathfinder tool did answer all three questions: What, Why and How to creating a portfolio. What she found most interesting was the information on format types that are available for creating a career portfolio. She was unfamiliar with non-linear PowerPoint Presentations, but stated that it was a great teaching tool and easy to use. Her suggestions for improving the lesson included instructions on accessing Ohio Link in the presentation; to include a way to access the resource from the current page.
Reflection on the Lesson
My college student is set to graduate in May of Therefore, she is in the process of adding content to a portfolio that was provided by the college and purchased by the student. In this case, she was more interested in what should go into a portfolio. The non-linear PowerPoint presentation was a great tool to answer the question this student had about portfolio content. By selecting just one of the reference resources provided, she was able to find a resource to help answer her question (print reference resource). She was already familiar with OhioLink and stated she was going to request several of the print resources. Her suggestions on adding an instructional link to access the print, EBook, and Database resources was a good idea. By adding a link at the bottom of each reference resource page the student would not need to go back to the beginning. Adding instructions on how to access OhioLink would be helpful for those who may have never used OhioLink or any other on-line catalog.
Overall, this was a good experience for both of us. It gave me the opportunity to see first-hand how well a non-linear PowerPoint Presentation would work for instruction and to see if my pathfinder resources were a good source of reference to assist anyone looking to create a career portfolio
Connie Burke
INF-203 – Sharing a Pathfinder
3/11/2012
General Information:
 Name of Pathfinder: Creating a Career Portfolio
 Description: This is an interactive PowerPoint presentation.
 Overview: This pathfinder is to provide information, tools, and resources to help create a career portfolio.
General Lesson Information
 Number of Students: 1
 Type of Students or Class: College Senior who will be graduating in May of 2012.
 Location of Lesson: Provide an invitation to view PowerPoint presentation.
 Method of Delivery: Internet – virtual classroom setting
Lesson Plan
 This is an interactive PowerPoint presentation pathfinder for Creating a Career Portfolio.
 The presentation is accessed by sending the participant an notification for a shared document located on Google Docs.
 The presentation is a non-linear PowerPoint presentation that is designed to click the complete presentation one slide at a time or can be used to view subjects of interest only.
 The use of this pathfinder tool will enable others to understand the content, types of formats, and other useful tools for creating a career portfolio. This presentation will also highlight the use of Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation software as an optional format to host a career portfolio.
 Additional links include: (copy and paste in internet tool bar)
Connie Burke INF-203 Pathfinder