Common Questions
Haga clic para traducciones al españolThere is little to worry about here, because you can either hide your ePortfolio from search engines or password protect pages within it. You own your ePortfolio, so you determine the visibility of your ePortfolio. Some tips:
- Share your ePortfolio’s URL only with SLCC faculty and staff via MyPage, as well as family, trusted friends, and scholarship committees. Otherwise, keep the address to yourself.
- When you sign up for your ePortfolio, don’t use your name in the domain name, so an address like www.kb345.weebly.com is far better than www.katyburklie.weebly.com.
- Similarly, don’t title the ePortfolio heading with “Katy Burklie’s SLCC ePortfolio,” as that will make it easier to find on a web search.
- In Weebly and WordPress, you can use the site settings to make your ePortfolio invisible to search engines.
- Use only your first name throughout the portfolio--on assignments, on the Welcome page, and on your resume.
- Don’t put pictures of yourself in the portfolio.
- Don't put your S Number, SSN, Address, and/or phone number anywhere in your ePortfolio. On your "Resume" page, your email address is sufficient contact information. If you are uncomfortable with putting your resume in the ePortfolio, then create a "contact me" page.
- Finally, Weebly, and WordPress allow you to hide your site from search engines, allowing only those with the URL to see it.
Starting Fall 2016, all students will be using Digication to build their ePortfolios. We will no longer build new ePortfolios on Weebly, Wix, Jimdo, Yola, Google Sites, or WordPress, but assistance is still available for those who have already built their ePortfolios on these platforms. Students who have built their ePortfolio on platforms other than Digication are welcome to move their ePortfolio to Digication or keep their current account. Please use Digication to create your new ePortfolio.See the "Tutorials" page or the "Lab Information" page for details more assistance.
NOTE: SLCC does not endorse these particular sites, nor is the College responsible if you have a bad experience with one of them.
Reflection can be described in various ways: musing, self- evaluation, metacognition, meditation, contemplation, consideration, rumination, etc. Intentional reflection can take on many forms: memoirs, personal essays, reflection essays, video diaries, documentaries, lab reports, research journals, etc. Regardless of the name or form, reflection requires the thinker/writer/creator to think critically about learning and connections they make among experiences. It involves discovery: what is known (knowledge) and unknown (perplexity)? John Dewey and other educational theorists argue that inquiry and connection making are the foundations of meaningful reflection.
Absolutely not. Plagiarism is a violation of the Student Code of Conduct and will be taken very seriously. You should know that the College subscribes to anti-plagiarism software that faculty use to compare current digital artifacts with those appearing anywhere else on the Web. Also note that using copyrighted or trade-marked materials is a violation of the law. If you do not know if it is okay to use something (such as an image) check this chart or refer to this booklet on Fair Use. If you use an image from Google images, after doing your search, make sure you select "tools" and then "usage rights". Then choose images that are approved under either "labeled for reuse" or "labeled for non-commercial reuse".
The Learning Outcomes are essential capacities that all students should possess regardless of academic major or career plans, for they will serve you well in all aspects of your life. When you put assignments and reflection in the course pages of your ePortfolio, revisit your Goals and Outcomes page and create links from the Learning Outcomes to the work in your courses. See the examples for ideas.
Remember that as you take a variety of General Education courses, your professors are engaged in a collective effort to help you achieve these learning outcomes.