Collecting your artefacts
Throughout your time as a student, you will create content that you can repurpose as artefacts for your portfolio.
You can use PebblePad as one place to record your learnings, experiences and skills. You can continually add new evidence to demonstrate your growth from a student into a professional.
Note
You can download the PebblePocket app on your mobile device to document your experiences in your portfolio on the go.
Templates and artefacts
As a student, some assessments you complete may use templates and workbooks created in PebblePad. When you have completed and saved them, they will be in your Asset store in PebblePad.
You can also choose from a selection of templates in the PebblePad Resource store to create your own reflections. Or you can upload your own artefacts, like photos, certificates or reports.
Don’t forget, after you graduate, you can continue to add to your PebblePad portfolio.
To learn more about uploading artefacts to PebblePad, watch this short video (1:20).
Tip
Use tags to sort your PebblePad assets into categories. This can help you search your assets to find and select relevant examples.
Selecting artefacts
Over time you will collect a lot of artefacts and you will need to be selective with how you use them for different purposes. Remember if you’re creating it for an assessment task this will be different to creating a professional portfolio.
However, you may decide to repurpose an artefact from an assessment task to meet a new context, such as applying for a job.
Activity: choosing appropriate artefacts
Your Task
Think about what you’ve just learnt about collecting and selecting appropriate artefacts. Let’s check your learning.
Which of the following artefacts would you choose to add to your portfolio page if you were showcasing it to potential employers?
Drag and drop the artefacts into the ‘Portfolio’ column if you would showcase them in your portfolio, or into the ‘Not relevant’ column if you would not include them in your portfolio. Then select Check.
Activity overview: Choosing appropriate artefacts
Two columns are displayed. The first column is a page in a portfolio and the second column is an empty white page entitled 'Not relevant'. To the right of the columns are 9 text boxes describing artefacts. These can be dragged and dropped into either of the columns. At the bottom of the activity is a Check button. The task is to place the artefacts that are relevant to the scenario into the ‘Portfolio’ column, or into the 'Not relevant' column if you would not include them in the portfolio page to showcase to potential employers.
Interactive content
The moveable text box content is as follows:
- The final product of a group assessment
- Me in a Minute video that promotes your acquired knowledge and capabilities
- Your unit code and student number
- Certificate of attendance for relevant professional development
- All of your assessments from your final year at university
- Reflection on professional experience or practicum
- Annotated learning experiences demonstrating professional/industry standards
- Photos of your peers taken during a professional placement
Which of the above artefacts do you think should go on your portfolio page for the job in the scenario?
Correct answer:
The correct solution to this activity is as follows:
Portfolio
- Annotated learning experiences demonstrating professional/industry standards
- Reflection on professional experience or practicum
- Me in a Minute video that promotes your acquired knowledge and capabilities
- Certificate of attendance for relevant professional development
Not relevant
- All of your assessments from your final year at university
- The final product of a group assessment
- Photos of your peers taken during a professional placement
- Your unit code and student number
Tip
PebblePad is a bucket that can hold all your uploaded artefacts. However, a portfolio is a curated collection. Select what best reflects your portfolio’s purpose. Remember, while you judge something as not relevant now, it could be later. Make sure you add tags so you can find it easily later.
Keeping it professional
When creating your portfolio, keep in mind that you have professional and personal responsibilities, these include:
protecting the privacy of others and yourself
respecting the rights of others
choosing appropriate artefacts
acknowledging the work of others
For an assessment task it’s easy. There are clear guidelines around what you can include; like how to seek permission for collecting photos and videos while you are on placement and how you’re able to use them in the future. Check if your Faculty, workplace or industry has a permission form available to use.
When selecting artefacts for a portfolio, consider the following questions.
Your Portfolio Content: Now and later
As a student creating a portfolio your focus in on responding to assessments or evidencing your learning. You might be uploading a diagram from your textbook or a video of a group presentation. And this content is typically shared privately with your teachers rather than the rest of the world.
When you make the change from a student context into a publicly visible professional portfolio there are some things you will need to change or consider. For example, group work means there are many owners of the content and anything you’re not the sole creator of requires permission to reuse. To better understand the differences in your rights and responsibilities for student portfolios versus real-world portfolios, it’s a good idea to look at some copyright advice.
Activity – Ethical dilemmas
Now that you have read the professional and personal responsibilities you need to keep in mind when creating and sharing content online, let’s check your understanding.
Your Task
Drag and drop the dilemmas into the correct professional responsibility column.
Activity overview: Ethical dilemmas
Three columns are displayed as follows:
- Protect the privacy of others
- Acknowledge the work of others
- Respect the rights of others.
Beneath the columns are 6 text boxes describing ethical dilemmas. These can be dragged and dropped into any of the columns.
At the bottom of the activity is a Check button.
The task is to place the ethical dilemmas into the correct professional responsibility column.
Interactive content:
The moveable text box content is as follows:
- Someone has recut part of Me in a Minute video and made it into an embarrassing meme.
- Your employer has asked if they can use a photo that you took on placement on their centre’s promotional website.
- Someone copied your essay and included it as part of their training as a consultant without your permission.
- You copy a technique that you found on a blog without acknowledging who wrote it.
- You include a complete scanned copy of a key textbook as an artefact in your portfolio.
- You include an artefact created as part of a group assessment and represented it as your own.
Which columns do you think these ethical dilemmas fit into?
Correct answer:
The correct solution to this activity is as follows:
Protect the privacy of others
- Someone has recut part of Me in a Minute video and made it into an embarrassing meme.
- Your employer has asked if they can use a photo that you took on placement on their centre's promotional website.
Acknowledge the work of others
- You copy a technique that you found on a blog without acknowledging who wrote it.
- You include an artefact created as part of a group assessment and represented it as your own.
Respect the rights of others
- Someone copied your essay and included it as part of their training as a consultant without your permission.
- You include a complete scanned copy of a key textbook as an artefact in your portfolio.
Tip
Interested in learning more about your professional responsibilities? Visit the Copyright Modules for Students or ask your Scholarly Services Librarian.