BMKT 405 e-Portfolio Assignment

Approximate time: 2-4 hours

The most time on your e-portfolio should be spent on writing your posts that showcase the work that you have done at Capilano College. You should have at least six postings including one that summarizes the marketing event you attended and one that describes and links to your wikipedia-style article.

Note: you can have more than six postings but make sure you have at least six.

A good posting should contain the following:
- clear, short, title of project or experience you are showcasing
- well-written, concise paragraph or two describing the project
- picture of some aspect of the project (e.g. you could show an image of the first page of a marketing report or communications MS PowerPoint presentation)
- link to a portion or the full project (e.g. link to a Word file containing your report).
- In some cases you may want to contain other related hyperlinks (e.g. links to companies that you mention in your posts).

You will also need to be comfortable with finding or creating images that you can use in your posting.

The following section provides some tips on adding images...

Adding images

You can add an image to your posting using the "Add Image" icon (picture of mountains and sky).

Here is a link to Blogger's Help section with instructions on posting pictures.

Before adding an image though, you will first need to have an image saved that you can upload or be able to link to an existing image already on a website (you would normally need to get permission to link to an existing image on another website though so you should stick to using your own images that you have saved to your computer).

You can find photos on the Internet or use your own photos. Here are three sites that offer different forms of "creative commons" copyright where you can get images for free and legally... more details on the licensing is available on the sites.

Flickr Creative Commons

Open Photo

Creative Commons Search

You can also create your own images by using the Print Screen (PrtScr) key... this will take a picture or screen shot of whatever you see on your monitor.

You can then open up MS PowerPoint, click on the opening slide, and then select paste. This will paste the screen shot image into the MS PowerPoint slide.

Adjust image if necessary

You can use MS PowerPoint as a mini-graphics editor by using the Picture toolbar. If you don't see this toolbar, from the main menu options in MS PowerPoint, go to View | Toolbars | and then select Picture (if you see a check mark next to Picture, this means you already have the Picture toolbar opened).

One of the most useful tools on the Picture toolbar is the cropping tool. You can use this cropping tool to cut parts of your image that you don't want. This is different than resizing your image since cropping cuts part of your image off as selected rather than just changing the size but maintaining an image when you resize.

Saving images

Now that you have tidied up your image, you can save the image by right-clicking on the image within the MS PowerPoint slide and select "Save as Picture".



Enter a descriptive file name and then select the down arrow for the Save as Type field so that the GIF or JPEG format is selected.

Upload image to posting

Now that you have saved the image, it is now time to upload to your posting. Select the "Add Image" icon (the mountain and blue sky icon)... when you click this icon, the "Upload Images" window pops up where you can browse to the location of your image, choose a layout (left, center or right) and the image size



Once you have made at least six postings, you can move on to Step 7 -- making an HTML version of your resume.