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HON H200
Intro to Honors

Starting your ePortfolio

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Why an ePortfolio?

The purpose of this assignment is to help you reflect on your learning experiences through reflective practices. The following skills will be essential to your success:

  • Utilize metacognition via reflection (i.e. the awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes)

  • Create and communicate multimedia representations of your learning journey supported by self-reflection and evidence.

  • Utilize technology (i.e. ePortfolio website) to visually illustrate significant learning experiences

 

This assignment will also help you become familiar with the following content.

  • Understand and demonstrate self-reflection

  • Begin or continue building a self-authored digital academic record of your learning through ePortfolio development practices 

  • Use an ePortfolio platform to create a personal webpage

Instructions

All sections/entries should include:

  1. A written narrative/summary of the experience,

  2. Reflection of your learning, and

  3. An artifact.

 

When writing the narrative, think of writing an essay telling the story of your journey. Your written narrative should be reflective and professional and should rely heavily on the framing of your evidence of learning and growth.

 

Choosing a Platform:

If you have already created an ePortfolio in a previous course or through the Canvas Honors Advising Modules, please add to that existing ePortfolio for this assignment. If you are creating a new ePortfolio, you can use any ePortfolio platform such as:

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Take a look at our H200 Instructional ePortfolio on Google Sites, created by Honors graduate Michael Peck, to see what will be included on your H200 ePortfolio. His instructional site breaks down each week in the H200 course to help you consistently keep your ePortfolio up to date during this course, as well as providing a multitude of helpful tips and tricks as you create your honors ePortfolio.

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If you want an extra boost when getting started on your ePortfolio, the IUI Honors ePortfolio template on Google Sites is now available. This template can help organize your honors ePortfolio material without any added stress of starting from scratch.

 

Notes: Google Sites is currently supported by IU and UITS can offer support 24/7. You are also encouraged to research the privacy policy of each platform prior to choosing a platform.

 

Designing your ePortfolio:

As stated above, the design and layout of the ePortfolio is personal preference, but should be easily navigated.

Please include a section/showcase for your Honors experience at IU Indianapolis.  For H200, be sure to follow the instructions in your Canvas course and include the following components:

  • About Me + Goals

  • Personal Statement

  • Honors in my Field Interview

  • Engaged Learning & Leadership Goals

  • For each, include 1) a summary/written narrative, 2) a reflection on why the experience was significant, and 3) an artifact to support both the summary and reflection (e.g. link to the assignment or project, an image, a quote, etc.)

Criteria for Success

  1. ​Create a well thought-out design and layout for your ePortfolio that represents your personality.

  2. Be sure to publish your ePortfolio and make certain that all entries, pictures, links/attachments, etc. are public.

  3. Include the required entries.

  4. For each entry include a summary, reflection, and artifact.

  5. Submit your ePortfolio URL in Canvas.

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