<![CDATA[ACAeport : Weblog]]> Elgg http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/ <![CDATA[Create a Portfolio of Your Career Development Process]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/3679.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/3679.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:17:40 GMT Create a hard copy portfolio of your career development process.
Start with a 2” loose-leaf binder with a clear plastic window on the front cover.
Divide the binder into the following sections (using large tabbed dividers):
•    Who am I? (self-assessments)
•    Where am I going (information and resources, field research)
•    How am I going to get there? (goals/intentions and implementation strategy).
•    What are my sources of support? (networking contacts)
Sub-divide the “Who am I?” section with small tabbed dividers labeled with each assessment category; i.e. skills, interests, values, personality traits, family influences, environmental preferences, learning style, and inner motivations.
Enter into the “How am I going to get there?” section samples of work, such as writing samples, budgets, IT reporting samples, artwork, graphics, and website samples.

Example: Section 1: Who Am I?


Strengths


 



  • Creative

  • Love Change

  • Resourceful

  • Curious

  • Big Picture

  • Adventurous

  • Problem Solving

  • Flexible

  • Loyal

  • Studious


 


 


Passions 


 



  • Providing a Legacy

  • Telling One's Story

  • New Experiences

  • Doing Something Different

  • Further Pursuit of One's Professional Field

  • Being Creative

  • Opportunities for Learning

  • Challenges

  • Using Technology for World Improvement

  • Surprises


Preferred Learning Style

Intraspychic (inner Guidance)
    Sense: Aroma
    Organ: Nose (closed eyes)
    Activators (visualization, meditation, aromatherapy)
    Meaning (purpose, transcendence, spiritual fulfillment)


Inner Motivations
    Primary: Passia
    2ndary:  Servia
    Tercieary: Quiessa







Example: Section 2: Where Am I Going?


You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.



Dr. Seuss, "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"*

Imagine yourself in your ideal work environment. Here's what I would write, " I sit in my writing garden under dappled sunlight, inviting others to share their life stories. Together we bask in filtered light, figuring out how to create the future by reflecting upon the past and being fully in the present. "

 I intend to use my ability to generate ideas and my desire to help people reach their potential to to help caregivers balance career, caregiving, and self-care.

The clearer your vision emerges, the more likely it will come true! At least that's what happened to me. When you can articulate your ideal work setting to others, you are even closer to creating that environment.



Instructions
Envision your ideal live/work environment decade by decade for the rest of your life. Answer the following questions for each decade:

  • What does it look like?

  • What are the aromas?

  • Who is part of your ideal environment?

  • How much time do you spend with others?

  • Do you prefer groups? If so, are they large or small?

  • Do you prefer one-to-one interaction?

  • How much time do you prefer to spend by yourself?

  • What do you do when you are by yourself?

  • What do you do when you are with others?

  • What are your physical sensations in your ideal environment (i.e., do you sit, stand, move, write, work on the computer, how does your body feel, what are your emotions?)

  • What are the sounds? Tastes?

  • Do you work in a different location than where you live or in the same location as where you live?





    • Example: Section 3: How Will I Get There?


  • Creating Space to Share with Others


    • I can't believe most people like to spend most of their time indoors in offices. Yet, that's where many people do their work. I can't believe that people like to stand on their feet all day. Yet, many teachers have knee operations by the time or before they are ready to retire. What are we doing to our bodies and to what end? Is there another way? By envisioning our ideal environment, maybe it will materialize, resulting in satifying work for ourselves and for those who enter into our environment of choice. That's what happened when I envisioned Cafe Philo (a philosophy cafe for career practitioners who were also poets or authors) several years ago at a NCDA Conference. Here's what happened at Cafe Philo.


  • Creating Space To Offer Career Services at Conferences


    • Even before Cafe Philo, I envisioned Cafe Vitae, an environment at conferences where I offer complementary job search tips "Vitae" is plural of "vita" which is a professional resume, often used by doctors and educators. "Vita" is derived from the Latin word, "life". Imagine creating a work environment to celebrate "life"! Every year, at the Professional Businesswomen's Conference, I offer Cafe Vitae, a career, caregiving, and self-care service.


  • Creating Personal Space


    • I created a collage of Cafe Gratitude (a real cafe in the San Francisco Bay area), which hangs on my dining-room wall. I feel gratitude for living in environments of my choice. My husband built for me a little garden filled with lavender and jasmine. I invite clients and friends to sit and talk at a canopied table in my garden. I also meet with clients and friends at outdoor cafes.


  • Creating Live/Work Communities


    • Have you heard the term "LiveWork Space?" I envision a live/work eldering community, in which active elders live in "green communities," within walking distance from the corner healthy food store, and provide educational workshops for the community. What is your "live/work space" of choice?


  • Creating Personal Space Wherever I Am


    • While my goal of creating a live/work community is formulating, I still need to live in the here and now. Creating a satisfactory environment in my current situation is equally important to creating an ideal space for the future. My little garden setting is available to me now. Even more immediately, I work at my computer near a window with filtered light casting patterns on a little balcony. My computer screen has images of nature. I listen to peaceful music as I work at my computer.

    When I was helping my almost 88-year old mother move from a home she had lived in for 40 years, emotions were high and scheduling was tight. To maintain balance, I took a half hour every day to jog in the early morning, and listened to uplifting music on my IPOD as I was packing.




    ]]>         <![CDATA[ePORTFOLIO QUESTIONNAIRE]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/504.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/504.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:38:27 GMT This questionnaire was prepared by Sally Gelardin & Marilyn Harryman as part of a presentation on " ePortfolios Are Replacing Resumes: Are You Ready?" March, 2006 Educational Session at American Counseling Association Conference, Montreal. Please contact sal@ gelardin.net or marilynhar @aol.com for permission to reprint.


    Portfolios

  • What experience have you had with portfolios?



    • ePortfolios

  • What do you want to know about e-portfolios?

  • Do you have your own e-portfolio?

  • Have you ever helped a client create an e-portfolio?



    • Web Sites

  • What are your favorite web sites?

  • Do you have your own website?

  • If so, do you have links from your website to other websites?



    • Web Logs (Blogs)

  • Have you ever read a blog?

  • Responded to a blog?

  • Started one or more blogs?

  • If so, about what topic/s?



    • Media

  • How many hours a week do you spend with - movies, dvds, videos, ipods, tv, tivo, print media, or computer.



    • Information Acquisition

  • How do you get your news (tv / email / Internet / newspaper / magazine / other)?

  • Do you subscribe to Internet resources? 

  • If so, are you notified automatically of updates through your email account?



    • Computer Hardware

  • Do you work on a MAC or PC? (e-portfolio platforms may appear differently on MACs and PCs or differently depending upon your Internet browser and version)



    • Communication

  • Do you participate in a listserv or other e-community?

  • If so, in what e-communities do you participate?

  • Do you write more postal mail or email correspondence?



    • Digital picture

  • Have you used a digital camera?

  • Uploaded a digital picture to the Internet?

  • Attached a digital picture to an email? Inserted a digital picture into an email?



    • HTML Code

  • Do you know how to set up an html link?

  • Why is this a valuable skill to have?



    • PDF file

  • Do you know how to create a PDF file?

  • Attach a PDF file to an email?

  • Upload a PDF file to the Internet?



    • Keyword Tagging

  • Do you know how to use HTML Tags?



    • Access Restrictions

  • Can you set access restrictions (AR) on an e-portfolio platform?



    • Real Simple Syndication (RSS)

  • Do you understand the value of RSS feeds?



    • Artifacts

  • What would you include in an e-portfolio that could be used throughout an individual's lifespan?
    • ]]>         <![CDATA[NEXT STEPS]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/499.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/499.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:58:29 GMT


    To discover more about the emerging field of career cybercounseling, you are welcome to join the CCC community. Click on http://lifeworkps.com/cybercounsel/ .Learn technology skills to support your clients in the development of e-portfolios and weblogs (blogs), while receiving the support of a cybercounseling community - all on a free, no-fee platform!



    CCC will give clients the ability to invite a career cybercounselor into their personal, partitioned e-space - their weblog - to keep the interaction integrated with their daily blog musings. Asking clients to duplicate their lifework experiences in either a string of e-mails or a discussion board risks a certain degree of disconnect for the client and cybercounselor. As more applications and features are integrated into a person's virtual lifework space, personal learning, reflection and work become more natural, spontaneous and transformational. Experience the melding of CCC with a no-fee, innovative, fully customizable learning landscape that includes web-logging (blogging), e-portfolios and social networking.



    Several professional development institutes and workshops are scheduled for this year to demonstrate the use of e-portfolios, blogs, and other distance tools in the career counseling process. Following is a list of NCDA and ACA 2006 scheduled conference presentations on tools for distance career counseling:

    An online dialogue is open after this ACA Institute to those interested in this topic through the following link: http://www.ncda-forums.org/index.php?showtopic=291 . (NFT0291)



    The Quebec presentation on e-portfolios will be repeated in abbreviated format at an ACA Career Development and Employment Counseling Educational Session on April 2 at 3:15 pm. In addition, a presentation on The Distance Credentialed Counselor (DCC) will be offered as an Educational Session during the Conference.

    On July 6 at the 2006 Chicago NCDA Conference, from 7:30 - 12 noon, PDI #5 will provide an overview of the main features of CCC. Co-presenters are Donna Ford, Virginia Chomiak, Sally Gelardin, and Pete Hubbard. These features include strict access control (security and confidentiality) of profile data, posts, and media files, and tags (keywords) that are used as a social networking tool to connect people who share common interests, and provide automatic indexing of blog posts and files. Participants will learn how to create e-portfolios using CCC data repositories that the client can develop and that the career cybercounselor can evaluate to guide the counseling session. Cybercounseling issues and concerns will be discussed and an explanation will be provided on how CCC addresses these challenges so that they become transparent or minimized. To demonstrate this counseling modality, a mock cybercounseling interaction will be conducted between a career cybercounselor and a client. Attendees will learn how to set up an account on the no-fee learning community platform and create their own career cybercounseling sessions with their clients. (NFT0281)



    An overview of CCC and NCDA Forums and other Internet-based tools will be presented again at the NCDA 06 Conference in session #212 “Enhance Your E-Connecting and E-Collaboration Skills: Learn Basic and Advanced Features of NCDA Forums: A No-fee Cybercounseling Blog” on Friday, 7/7 from 4:50 - 6 pm. (NFT0294).



    As time permits, members of the Cybercounseling group will be available to answer questions on the CCC community project at the NCDA 2006 Conference Cyber Café.



    Register on NCDA Forums (NF) and subscribe to the above NF topics. Create an account and join the Career Cybercounseling community project to explore this exciting new frontier. What role will you play in the development of cybercounseling and e-portfolios?]]>         <![CDATA[CHALLENGES AND ETHICAL/LEGAL ISSUES]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/498.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/498.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:56:18 GMT


    o Could a third party break into your e-portfolio and make inappropriate changes?

    o If you wish to include confidential/copyrighted material, how can you protect yourself and others?

    o If you include client e-portfolio development in your counseling. what standards of practice are appropriate?

    o What are the advantages and disadvantages of for-fee and free e-portfolio platforms?

    o Is there a demand for e-portfolio development in counseling?

    o Is special training necessary to create e-portfolios? If so, what kind of training is necessary?

    o Other questions?]]>         <![CDATA[WHAT MIGHT GO INTO YOUR E-PORTFOLIO]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/497.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/497.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:54:39 GMT
    o What kinds of activities feed your sense of purpose? Give you energy?

    o What are some of the most fulfilling things you've ever done, and what do they suggest you need to do next?

    o How has your work been different from what you've wanted it to be?

    o What have you not yet done in your life that you really must do?

    o Who are you as compared to who people think you are?

    o What messages about work did you receive as you were growing up? What expectations, if any, did various family members express to you regarding your choice of work?

    o If you were to wake up tomorrow having won the lottery, enough to never have to earn a dime again, how would you spend the next year? Ten years? 20 years?

    o If you knew you could not fail, what sorts of endeavors would you undertake?

    o What's stopping you from moving forward with any of the ideas you've mentioned above?]]>         <![CDATA[REFLECTING UPON YOUR E-PORTFOLIO]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/496.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/496.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:52:47 GMT
    o Who am I? (personal description or bio)

    o Email address

    o Official website address

    o Personal website address

    o Interests

    o Occupation

    o Company/Institution

    o Job Title

    o Career Goals

    o Level of Education

    o University/College

    o Degree/s

    o Certifications

    o Main Skills

    o Other Categories (that you would like to add)]]>         <![CDATA[”7-UP” E-LIFELINE]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/495.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/495.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:50:58 GMT
    Here's what you can do to create your own 7-Up Lifeline. Draw a line across a page like this:
    _____________________________________________

    Divide the line into 7-year intervals. Write three high point of your life above the line and three low points of your life below the line for each 7-year interval. Then hyperlink or attach a picture, movie, PDF file, or text box of pertinent artifacts to points in your lifeline to record the experiences.

    http://www.dga.org/news/v27_3/feat_apted_up.php3

    http://www.frif.com/new99/42up.html

    *Speaking of Jesuit theory, register to listen to Job Juggler's Career Expert Audio featuring Jesuit Educator David Robinson, S.J. discussing "The Value Of Portfolios And Electronic Portfolios For Jesuit Education" http://www.jobjuggler.net/careerexpertaudios.html]]>         <![CDATA[E-PORTFOLIO AT A GLANCE]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/494.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/494.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:48:28 GMT Portfolio-at-a-Glance ]]> <![CDATA[VISUAL CAREER ASSESSMENT MAP]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/493.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/493.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:45:34 GMT


    How do they fit together? You can include information that you have learned about yourself from your Myers-Briggs, Strong, FIRO-B, SkillScan, and other formal or informal inventories.



    To locate free and for-fee inventories of each indicator, view:

    http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/counseling/ctests.shtml#jhsds

    http://www.quintcareers.com/online_assessment_review.html]]>         <![CDATA[LIVE-LINKED PROFESSIONAL BIO]]> http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/492.html http://lifeworkps.com/acaeport/weblog/492.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:27:46 GMT
    View Marilyn's hyperlinked bio on a web platform.


    View Sally's Bio on her website:

    View Sally's hyperlinked bio on the Job Juggler website.
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