Portfolio
workshop
th
11 Oct
Source: Aalto University Annual Report 2013
Pictures: Aalto University Communications, Academy of Finland, Lehtikuva Picture Agency
Goal of the day
• To get started with the Aaltonaut portfolio
• To get concrete ideas for making your
learning portfolio
• To answer your questions realted to
Aaltonaut learning portfolio
• Motivate you to make and upkeep your
portfolio!
Portfolio = a
collection of
evidence on
expertise
Expertise
Skills=ability to do
something
Knowledge =
person’s
understanding,
information
Attitudes =
mental outlook
MY LEARNING PORTFOLIO
Round 1: LinkedIn
 Not really suitable platform for portfolio
 Better for documenting your current level of skills
 On the other hand, now I have a LinkedIn account!
MY LEARNING PORTFOLIO
Round 2: Blog
 Easy to use
 Natural for incremental documentation
 Not visually pleasing
 Easily has an unprofessional vibe
MY LEARNING PORTFOLIO
MY LEARNING PORTFOLIO
Round 3: The PDF..
 Where to store it, how to distribute it?
 How to make sure it is kept up to date?
 Visual skills required to create interesting layout
 I never got past these thoughts to even create the
document
 BUT many of my friends rock an awesome PDF
portfolio
MY LEARNING PORTFOLIO
Final Round: Personal website
 Easy to make visually pleasing websites nowadays
 Convenient to include link in CV, business card…
 Availability for anyone motivates keeping the site
updated
 So does the fact it is not free to get your own
domain...
tässä
link
MY LEARNING PORTFOLIO
What did I gain:
 Experience in creating a website; good project on its own
 Skills on conceus reflection:
- What did I do?
- Why did I do it?
- How did it go?
- What I would change?
- What did I learn?
- How can I use these learnings?
Steps of portfolio making
(Experience so far…)
1: List of doings (tässä)
2: List of skills
3: Links between doings and skills
4: concreteness to the links between
the doing and skills
Learning cycle
1
4
2
3
Kolb and Kolb, 2005
4
1
2
3
Portfolio requirements
Qualitative
and
quantitative
evidence in all
the
components
Skills = ability to
do something
Knowledge =
person’s
understanding,
information
Attitudes =
mental outlook
Task 1. Team discussion
Discuss in teams (2-3) for 10 min
about your important learning
experiences e.g. jobs, projects,
activities
Write these on the sticky notes (1
project / note)
Task 2. Independent work
Summarize your learnings on a
paper (list, mind map…)
Place the notes (from the previous
excercise) as evidence for the skills
Task 3. Whole group
Choose one expertise and its
evidence (activity, from which your
have it gained and which proves
that you have the expertise)
Preset the learning from the activity
to the whole group