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Creating a portfolio

What is a portfolio?

 

Portfolios are a learning process that involves you curating and showcasing your growth as a professional. It’s not just snapshots in time but a story of your developing capabilities through reflection and evaluation.

 

Using PebblePad: now and later

As a Deakin student you can create your portfolio in PebblePad. PebblePad is an online tool that can be used to store, organise, reflect on and share your work.

Anything you create in PebblePad as a Deakin student doesn’t disappear after you graduate. You can continue to work in PebblePad into the future and add to your collection of artefacts.


Why create a portfolio?

A well designed and maintained portfolio showcases your experience and evidences your ability to critically reflect on your own professional practice.

It’s an opportunity to curate your practice!

Your PebblePad portfolio can start as a collection of your assessments, which you can use beyond your studies in your professional life. Your portfolio expands on the limited information you can put in a resume or a job application. Think of it as showcasing your ongoing learning as a professional.

 

Note

It’s important to remember that your Portfolio is a work in progress that you will continue to revise and update as you gain more experience or capabilities.


What can I put in my portfolio?

Creating your portfolio allows you to demonstrate your knowledge in diverse ways.

Click on the flip cards to see what you can include in your portfolio:

 

 
Artefacts
Artefacts to evidence your learning and experience.
 
Annotations
Annotations explaining how the artefacts demonstrate good practice. Annotations that show your work in relation to standards, policies, research or theories.
 
Critical reflections
Critical reflections discussing what you have learnt and how you would change your practice to show your growth as a professional.

 

Tip

Regularly save when creating or uploading any artefacts, annotations or examples in PebblePad - there is no autosave!  Once saved they are called assets and are located in your Asset store.


What’s your purpose?

To choose relevant content for your portfolio you need to understand your purpose or goal. Before you start, ask yourself “What do I need this portfolio to do?”

Sometimes a portfolio will have one purpose, but often it’s a combination. If your portfolio has multiple purposes, consider the main reason you’re creating your portfolio to guide what you include.