Student Portfolio
Walden University

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Statement of Purpose

Describe the purpose of your student portfolio by considering these questions:
What is the purpose of your portfolio?
Why are you creating a portfolio?
What are your academic goals?
How do you plan to accomplish those goals?
How will your portfolio demonstrate what you have learned?

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of my student portfolio is:

1. To manage all my writing projects while at Walden University.

2. In conjunction with my business and personal Weblog, the purpose is to explore new ideas and techniques in information management using state-of-the-art information management, search, and social software tools.

My academic goal is to complete my degree, and the portfolio is not directly related to that goal, except that it is also a requirement.

My student portfolio needs to be able to answer any questions anyone might have about my work and studies at Walden. The portfolio will be a conversation between me and those who choose to visit or use the site.

The portfolio will demonstrate what is possible with Web-based, open-source technology, and I will use the creation and management of the site it explore and learn these technologies.


Intended Audience

Describe the Intended Audience for your student portfolio by considering these questions:

• Who will see or use your portfolio?
• How will the members of the audience use your portfolio and what do they expect it to contain?
• How will the contents of the portfolio meet the expectations of the intended audience?

Intended Audience

I know for sure that teachers and fellow students will be encouraged and welcome to visit my portfolio. At first, I will be the primary audience, because I’m going to use the portfolio to manage my school work, as I explore some ideas in creating dynamic documents based on emerging technologies. I hope to surprise anyone who comes to the site, by demonstrating new methods in information management.

The site will be a conversation; that is, I expect visitors to participate in the discussion and shape how the site is presented.

I may invite open audience participation, including friends, business experts I know or would like to know.


Method of Organization

Describe how you will organize your student portfolio by considering these questions:

• How should the portfolio contents be organized?
• What is the rationale for choosing one way rather than another to organize the portfolio?
• How does the method of organization support the overall intent of the portfolio?

Method of Organization

1. I’m going to use a basic weblog to start organizing the materials. Right now, I haven’t selected a style or format.
2. I may add a Wiki as a repository for papers and other information, and use the Wiki search engine functionality.
3. Eventually, I’m going to store all data and documents in native XML and use extensive metadata elements and RSS.
4. I will definitely ask the audience to participate so ‘comments’ will be turned-on.
5. I want to explore the concept of dynamic documents (documents created on the fly based on search criteria). I’ll work with some programmers to write XSLT style sheets that generate the documents based on various criteria.
6. I want to move from hierarchical, confined, and pre-defined organizational structure, to a dynamic structure where, “information will find you.”


List of Work Samples

1. MGMT 3001 Portfolio Project
1. Review the MGMT 3001 Portfolio Project description. The document is located in the Lesson 5 folder within Course Documents.
2. You do not have to complete the MGMT 3001 Portfolio Project now. You will do this project when you take that course. For the purposes of this assignment simply write one or two sentences describing the project and what you think the purpose is of this project.
2. List other work samples (if you have them) that you would like to include in your portfolio.

Samples
Besides everything I write I’ll include the following information:

• A daily history, and will act as an ongoing workbook
• All of my writing projects, including daily drafts of work as I complete the assignment
• Personal logs and feelings about my schoolwork (what was I thinking?)
• Links to other weblogs, articles, or anything of interest
• Correspondence and feedback
• Anything else I can think of that I want to track, including video

Reflective Evaluation

For each work sample write a brief statement that considers these questions:

• Why is it included in your portfolio?
• What did you learn?
• How does what you learned help you achieve your academic goals?
• How can you apply what you have learned to future assignments?
• Are there elements of the assignment that you can improve?

Since you may not have any existing work samples, comment on the MGMT 3001 Portfolio project. Consider these questions:

• Why will you include it in your portfolio?
• What did you think you will learn from the assignment?
• How do you think the assignment will help you achieve your academic goals?

Professional Work Samples and Reflective Evaluation

For business and professional reasons, I will not be including any work samples in my student portfolio.

For personal and professional reasons, I will not be adding reflective evaluation to the completed assignments.