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Sad news: our portfolio contest is over.

Good news: the portfolios are being judged and the winners will be announced soon!

The deadline for entering portfolios passed on May 13th.  Now the fun begins.  Over the next couple of weeks we will be going through all the submissions and figuring out which ones are the best.  Sometime in mid-June, once the hard work is done, we will award the  prizes, which include  an iPad mini for the Best Career Portfolio, Beats by Dre headphones for the Best Portfolio Design, and a Go Pro camera for the Best Life Story.  In addition, we will be awarding two runners-up in each category.  All winners and runners-up will also receive a 5 year license extension and badge graphic.

If you entered a portfolio in the contest, thank you and good luck!  If not, start working on your portfolio now and if we run another contest, you’ll be ready.  While you’re waiting for the winners to be selected, check out the sample portfolios below.

Our portfolio contest ends at midnight tonight!  It is open to anyone who has used Foliotek to build a presentation portfolio.   To enter the competition, go to our Foliotek Presentation Facebook page, click “like”, and post a link to your portfolio as a comment on our Facebook page.  This will enter you in the contest and share your portfolio with a community of Foliotek users.

We will be awarding awesome prizes including  an iPad mini for the Best Career Portfolio, Beats by Dre headphones for the Best Portfolio Design, and a Go Pro camera for the Best Life Story.  In addition, we will be awarding two runners-up in each category.  All winners and runners-up will also receive a 5 year license extension and badge graphic.  Judging of portfolios will begin this week and winners will be announced the first part of June

All Portfolios must be submitted to the Foliotek Presentation Facebook page by midnight on May 13th, 2013.  If you have any questions or would like more information about this contest, please contact support@foliotek.com or 1.888.365.4639 ext. 2.

Send us your portfolio…maybe win a prize.

Only one week left to enter our presentation portfolio contest!  It is open to anyone who has used Foliotek to build a presentation portfolio.  To enter the competition, go to our Foliotek Presentation Facebook page, click “like”, and post a link to your portfolio as a comment on our Facebook page. This will enter you in the contest and share your portfolio with a community of Foliotek users.

We will be awarding awesome prizes for exemplar portfolios in three categories Best Career Portfolio, Best Portfolio Design, and Best Life Story. In addition, we will be awarding two runners-up in each category. All winners and runners-up will also receive a 5 year license extension and badge graphic.

Prizes include  an iPad mini for the Best Career Portfolio, Beats by Dre headphones for the Best Portfolio Design, and a Go Pro camera for the Best Life Story.

All Portfolios must be submitted to the Foliotek Presentation Facebook page by midnight on May 13th, 2013.  If you have any questions or would like more information about this contest, please contact support@foliotek.com.

If you need technical support while building your portfolio, please contact support@foliotek.com or 1.888.365.4639 ext. 2 for technical assistance.

We are looking forward to seeing some excellent portfolios…

Our latest Hangout with Dr. Shellie Myers was another great discussion.  Her insight on building team morale while changing the portfolio process is extremely beneficial to anyone using portfolios.  If you missed it, you can watch the recording here:  Park University – Dr. Shellie Myers

You can also access the Hangout in our Google+ community.  If you haven’t joined our community, you need to so you can watch these discussions live.  Just click the following link: Friends of Foliotek Community.   If you already have a Google+ account, simply sign in and click the red “Ask to join” button toward the top of the screen.   Don’t have a Google+ account?  You can click the red “Join Google+” button within the previous link or click here to sign up (it’s free).  You can make connections with others in the electronic portfolio community and stay up-to-date on the latest news from Foliotek.

…until our next Hangout Discussion.  This time we are talking with Dr. Shellie Myers from Park University in Parkville, Missouri.  The discussion will begin at 12:00 pm CT.

Dr. Myers has recently led an initiative to restructure portfolio assessment processes and can offer a great perspective on how to do so successfully.  She is a delightful individual and we are proud to have her as an educational partner.  Change your plans for tomorrow and listen in on our discussion with Dr. Myers – you’ll be glad you did.

Presentation Portfolio Contest

Next week, we are kicking off a contest for anyone using Foliotek who has built a presentation portfolio.  To enter the competition, go to our Foliotek Presentation Facebook Page, click “like,” and post a link to your portfolio as a comment on our Facebook page. This will enter you in the contest and share your portfolio with a community of Foliotek users.

We will be awarding awesome prizes for exemplar portfolios in three categories (listed below). In addition, we will be awarding two runners-up in each category. All winners and runners-up will also receive a 5 year license extension and badge graphic.
 
 
BEST CAREER PORTFOLIO
[ Prize: iPad mini ]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BEST PORTFOLIO DESIGN
[ Prize: Beats by Dre headphones ]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BEST LIFE STORY
[ Prize: Go Pro camera ]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Contest Details

The contest begins  on Monday, April 22^nd.  All Portfolios must be submitted to Foliotek Presentation Facebook Page by midnight on May 13th, 2013.  If you have any questions or would like more information about this contest, please contact support@foliotek.com.

If you need technical support while building your portfolio, please contact support@foliotek.com or 1.888.365.4639 ext. 2 for technical assistance.

We are looking forward to seeing some excellent portfolios..

It just keeps getting better and better.  A few weeks ago we added to the powerful arsenal already available in Foliotek Presentation.  For quite some time, faculty members have been able to create their own private community in which their students can share portfolios.  Now, faculty members have the ability to create their own, specialized templates for students to use when creating a portfolio for those communities.

Here’s how it works:

1.  The faculty member converts any portfolio they have created into a portfolio template.

2.  That template is assigned to one or more communities which the faculty member has created.

3.  It is then available for use by the students in that community.

With this new addition, faculty members can easily specify the type of information they want students to provide in the portfolios they create.  What a powerful tool!

If you would like more information about this new feature, contact your Foliotek Consultant or our support team at (888) 365-4639, option 2.

Our last Hangout with Carrie Luke from the University of Michigan was full of “awesomeness”!  The bad news is that if you missed it, you missed some great information on how to take on a large scale portfolio implementation.  The good news, however, is that you can still watch the Hangout with Carrie Luke on YouTube.

You can also access the Hangout in our Google+ community.  If you haven’t joined our community, you need to so you can watch these discussions live.  Just click the following link: Friends of Foliotek Community.   If you already have a Google+ account, simply sign in and click the red “Ask to join” button toward the top of the screen.   Don’t have a Google+ account?  You can click the red “Join Google+” button within the previous link or click here to sign up (it’s free).  You can make connections with others in the electronic portfolio community and stay up-to-date on the latest news from Foliotek.

Coming soon:  information on our next Google+ Hangout.

Carrie Luke is an Instructional Learning Specialist at the University of Michigan’s University Library and will be the subject of our next discussion on March 27th at 12:30 pm CT.  She is involved in nearly every aspect of ePortfolios at Michigan.  From helping students develop portfolio content and supporting staff through the implementation process to developing a campus-wide portfolio culture, Carrie does it all.  Listen in and join the discussion as Carrie talks about the wide variety of ways that ePortfolios have been implemented.

If you haven’t joined our Google+ community, you need to.  Just click the following link: Friends of Foliotek Community.   If you already have a Google+ account, simply sign in and click the red “Ask to join” button toward the top of the screen.   Don’t have a Google+ account?  You can click the red “Join Google+” button within the previous link or click here to sign up (it’s free).  You can make connections with others in the electronic portfolio community and stay up-to-date on the latest news from Foliotek.

Make plans to join us on Wednesday, March 27th, at 12:30 pm CT.

This morning we released a new report in Foliotek!  One of our educational partners requested the ability to compare answers given on different forms – and we listened.  It was a great idea!

Using the Form Comparison report (how’s that for a catchy name) you can select different forms within a program and compare the answers that were given.  To check out this report, go to the Reports area of your administrator account and click on the ‘Forms’ tab.  It will only take you a few seconds to run the report and begin comparing your form data.

This is perfect for forms that the students fill out about themselves and a similar form is filled out by a faculty member or supervisor about those same students.  You can easily see how each groups opinions match up.  It is also good for quickly comparing growth over time.  If a group of students is evaluated on a form midway through the semester and then again at the end – you can run this report and quickly see how well they progressed over that time.

If you would like more information about this new feature, contact your Foliotek Consultant or our support team at (888) 365-4639, option 2.