0.4 Part four: your e-portfolio

Service project

Congratulations on the completion of your Service Project!

When your mentor says you're "Ready," post the following parts of your Service Project to your electronic TeachingPortfolio (E-Portfolio) in the section named "Service Project":

• Letter of Intent
• Calendar
• Presentation Statement
• Any 2 Observation Journal entries
• Any 2 Sparks Journal entries
• Service Project Reflection
• Field Advisor's Letter

Reminder: To post your work in your E-Portfolio, go to your disk or hard drive where you have saved your assignments, and open up thedocument that contains your written work for your Service Project.

You will now take the written pieces out of the assignment-template that you originally typed them into and place yourwords in a new Word document that you create now.

Here's how to do it:

• Open a new, blank Word document and name it "Service Project." Go to your original document where you typed the Letter of Intent, Calendar,Presentation Statement, any 2 Observation Journal entries, any 2 Sparks Journal entries, and Service Project Reflection. Highlight the text you wrote. Copy it and paste your wordsinto the newly-created Word Document called "Service Project." Save this new document. (Be sure to label each part of the Service Project -Letter of Intent, Calendar, etc.)
• When you're done, you will have a new document called "Service Project." Next, follow the instructions in Part One of Course 5 underthe section "Posting Your Work" to review how to post material to your E-Portfolio.

To access your E-Portfolio, click here .

Résumé

A résumé is a one-page written document listing and describing your professional work life starting with your current job andgoing back in time to your first job. There are many different ways to create a résumé in terms of how it looks. The content, however, usually includes:

Professional Experience

• Job title
• Name of the school or organization where you work or worked
• Location
• Short description of your responsibilities using action verbs such as "Developed," "Coordinated," "Initiated," "Taught," etc.
• Dates you worked there
• Other Work Experience

Education

• List the names of the schools you attended
• Location
• What you studied
• Graduation date
• Degree received
• Professional workshops or conferences you've attended (optional)

Interests (this section is optional) - Here, you can list:

• Hobbies, extracurricular activities, special interests, travel, etc.

To view sample resumes , visit the E-Portfolio site and see what others have created..

Creating your resume

• Create your résumé in a new Word document and save it.
• Send it to your learning circle and to your mentor.
• After looking at other people's résumés and getting feedback from your mentor about your own, revise your résumé.
• Before posting your resume, add your References and Letters of Recommendation in the same document and save it all as one document.

References

Choose 3 people who know you well professionally, and ask them if they will be a reference for you when you apply for jobs,fellowships, or any other professional opportunities you may seek.