Post your near-final Capstone Portfolio submission to this week’s discussion boa

Post your near-final Capstone Portfolio submission to this week’s discussion board. (No attachments – just enter text or copy and paste)If you can copy and paste the artifacts into the same document, do that. If it’s not easy to copy and paste them in (maybe due to formatting issues) or if you are including a video or other non-textual artifact, then upload those artifacts as separate files (see instructions for uploading multiple files here).
Include in your post, a table of contents for the artifacts, in the order you want people to look at them. After the table of contents, write at least 2-3 sentences that explain what items you decided to include in your portfolio and why. The Portfolio instructions direct you to focus on a specific story — tell the class what message you want to convey with your three artifacts and how your curating and editing choices helped communicate that message Overview
you’ll remember, one of your earliest discussion boards in this class, Practicing Curation, asked you to choose three items that tell a story about you. That assignment was an exercise in curating, or selecting what to focus on. Since that discussion board, we’ve done the opposite of curate–we’ve expanded and we’ve explored. You’ve had many opportunities to continue to tell your story, to think about your brand, to explore your interests and your degree, to think about the many kinds of documents you might use along your journey. Now it’s time to return to the idea of curation and practice selecting a story you want to tell about your experiences in this class, then curating the documents that best tell that story. Your task: For the Capstone Portfolio Submission, pick three examples of your work in this class and create a portfolio that you can use going forward in your university plans and beyond. These three items must work together to tell a story about you.Part 1: The Three Items: The three items you choose must accomplish two things: They must show something about you. What they show is up to you, but here are some guiding questions that might help you decide:Are there items that, when put together, demonstrate what you value in life?
Are there items that, when put together, demonstrate how you’ve made your Liberal Studies degree work for you?
Are there items that, when put together, illustrate your career goals and the progress you’ve made towards achieving those specific goals?
Are there items that, when put together, illustrate the kind of work or the kind of intellectual pursuits you find rewarding?
Are there items that, when put together, show a transformation you’ve undergone?
Are there items that, when put together, show who you are as a student? Are there items that, when put together, show what sets you apart from other IDS majors?
Are there items that, when put together, show something else?
The three items must work together to tell the story you’ve chosen to tell. In order for them to work together, you’ll need to revise (at least two of them) to make sure that you’ll get the most out of putting them side-by-side. When you revise, you’ll ask yourself questions like: When I put the three artifacts side by side, how does each one draw attention to certain aspects of another document? What can I revise in artifact 1 that would make something in artifact 2 better stand out? When I put artifact 2 and 3 together, is there something that seems contradictory or confusing now and should I revise it?
Remember, these questions are meant to give you ideas. However, you can tell a story that isn’t represented in the questions above. The key, though, is that the items actually tell a story. In other words, the selection of artifacts in your portfolio should not feel haphazard or random. Imagine that the reader of this portfolio only gets to see these three items and never sees anything else about you or by you: what would they think about you from these three items? That’s what you have control over here. You get to decide what you want the portfolio to say about you, then you must pick three items that convey that message. Important note: The idea here is that you focus on a specific story–don’t throw everything you’ve got at us. Curation means leaving some stuff out so that we can more clearly see what is there. You’ll be graded on your ability to focus on something you want to convey and curating a portfolio that conveys that message.Note that this is an important skill you are getting to practice here. In real life, you will have many opportunities to create portfolios, submit example work, and craft a story about who you are. When we do that, we want to make sure that the documents do the most they can for us in that context– and since the context is always changing, the documents we choose should be changing, too. List of approved portfolio items that you can choose from:Resume
Branding Moodboard
Personal Statement
Cover letter template
Detailed summary of your work and/ or volunteer experience
Curriculum summary
Plan for the future
Video practice interview