Create your Cybersecurity Portfolio
Portfolios are an invaluable tool in academic and professional development. They provide a powerful medium for users to efficiently collect and organize artifacts representative of work completed over time. Portfolios offer a means to demonstrate formative and/or summative progress and achievement. Portfolio authors are empowered with tools to effectively present their information in a cohesive, personalized format.
The goal is for all students in this class to create an Portfolio which offers an audience artifacts and student reflections as to serve as both a showcase of student work but reflection of the learning through that student cybersecurity work.
Essential Question: How do I create a professional portfolio which will exhibit my best work to University admissions, administration, scholarship opportunities, and future employers?
Objective: I will be able to create a professional portfolio profile to market myself for potential cybersecurity opportunity door-openers.
Task: Create a Portfolio for this Cybersecurity course.
- Title: Your title should be your first name last name’s Cybersecurity Portfolio.
- Create Introductory page. Introduce yourself in a professional way. Include your class rank, college, organizations you are involved in at college and in community, cybersecurity – competitions/challenges/conferences/workshops you worked on or attended or contributed, a part-time job, past internships and/or employments, your career goal, one person who is a role model for you and a quote from that role model which is appropriate to why he or she is your role model.
- Add a picture of yourself to your profile.
- Choose a layout and color that you would like to assign for a theme for your portfolio.
- Format your prose so it is easy to read. Maybe use a color that matches the picture that you add. Remember, readability is HUGE!
- Create a Word Cloud ( to an external site.)of about 30 words that mean a lot to you! Save your Word Cloud as a .jpg in Paint and then insert at the bottom of your profile description.
- Add documents that will market you. Suggestions: a resume, a recommendation letter from an internship supervisor or employer, certificates, a paper or project you are proud of in college
To have it graded: Submit your portfolio to the professor for any feedback. If the professor has any feedback, update accordingly and and re-submit it and it will be regraded.
Share your portfolio with others, both at your institution and outside the walls. Each time you share a portfolio with other users, you create a static snapshot of that portfolio at that point in time. What is shared is that static snapshot. If you make edits that you want to share, you need to share the portfolio again.
Below is link to good sample ePortfolios from Auburn students and alumni:
here is the example sample:-
