What are the nuts and bolts, ins and outs of e-portfolios?
Using Google Sites as the development platform for presentation e-portfolios.
Following up on a previous post, “Adding your LinkedIn™ profile to your ePortfolio” LinkedIn has now made it very easy to add your public profile badge to a blog, online resume/e-portfolio or a website. Promote yourself by selecting one of their LinkedIn™ image buttons. It is very simple, check out Create a public profile badge.
If you have created a public profile on the LinkedIn™ Web site, you might want to consider linking to it from within your ePortfolio. There are four basic steps: Either create your own image or use the LinkedIn™ logo in your site. Upload the image where you want it to appear in your site. Go to… Continue reading Adding your LinkedIn™ profile to your ePortfolio
Several people have asked how to make an image in their ePortfolio site an active link. In Google Sites, you can remove the default automatic link to the image and replace it with a new one. When you add an image to your site, Google automatically makes a default link to the image itself. That… Continue reading Making an image a link
To create a hyperlink to an artifact in your site (i.e. pdf, image, presentation, video), you will need to have the artifact’s Web address (URL). Where do you find the Web address? If the artifact is already located on the Web, (i.e. YouTube video), you will need to go to that location and get its… Continue reading Creating links to artifacts
I have had several students ask how to share an ePortfolio that is private. Sites at the University’s Google Apps service, Sites at Google.com, and WordPress at WordPress.com all have a Sharing option. If you have set the privacy setting to be Private instead of Public, you can add an email address for anyone with… Continue reading Sharing my portfolio when it is private