It is time to start preparing the near-final version of your Capstone Portfolio (Discussion Board) that you’ll share with the class for peer feedback. You’ll submit your final-version Capstone Portfolio and your portfolio reflection letter privately to me for a grade in Finals Week.
Begin your Capstone work now — as part of your portfolio you’ll need to prepare and revise three items (artifacts) that tell a particular story about you.
Here is the List of approved portfolio items (artifacts) 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
But what particular story about yourself should you tell?
What To Post on the Discussion Board
For this post: first, review the list of guiding questions (below).
And then discuss which question (or questions) your portfolio will answer. To think about how your artifacts tell a story about you — a story that is intentional and that you want to tell — you’ll also need to think about what artifacts you might revise fro inclusion in your Portfolio. You can change your mind later about artifacts and the question those artifacts answer about you, as you begin to assemble the portfolio. Right now the goal is to really think about this part of the Portfolio task.
Guiding Questions
The three artifacts you pick 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?
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.
Your initial post must be at least 200 words long.
