IMAGE-EGO Professionalization
This workshop meets Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, July 13-15 from 11-12:15pm.
This workshop will aid attendees in developing market materials like: a teaching portfolio, CV, teaching statement, research abstract, and dissertation abstract. We'll cover making a market-ready website that acts as a portfolio. Whether or not you have a dissertation abstract, a teaching statement, or some of the other materials, still come to the workshop to get your website up and ready for those materials as soon as you do have them - don't wait until fall and end up being overwhelmed.
For this, we will:
- Design an overall site layout
- Put CVs online in PDF and HTML (with links to subsections)
- Put teaching evals online in HTML and PDF
- Put teaching statement online
- Put any syllabi and sample student work online
- Put diss abstracts online
- Make a page for research interests statement
- Make a contact page
- And, check over all of the links and make this all works
Then, we'll burn all of this to a CD that autoruns to send out with application materials.
Day 1: Making a Market Website
Today, we'll put together a simple, elegant design for your website and we'll implement that design for several key sections:
- Homepage with links to Research, Teaching, Other, CV, Contact
- Header and Footer that have consistent links to the above sections.
- Teaching Directory, which will have the teaching evaluations, syllabi, student work, and teaching statement
- Research Directory, which will have the research interests, dissertation abstract, coursework list, link to CV
- Other, which can hold previous web projects and files that aren't needed for the market files, can include a personal bio and the like
- Linking your various webspaces together for consistency - CLAS and NWE (and Plaza or Grove if you have them)
- Email Kaaren to request IMAGE Lab access
- Coursework list
This is a fairly arbitrary structure, but it's quick and organized, which is why we'll be using this, another structure can work just as well and you can always come in and do the site design and then structure the site in another manner.
Sample Site Designs
- Nick Melczarek, specifically a market website
- Joe Bess, based on the NWE design
- Lisa Hager, basic design
- Margot Reynolds, basic design
- Sean Fenty, stylized basic design
- Alison Van Nyhuis, stylized basic design
- Valerie Leitner, basic design
- Jane Love, basic design
- Harun Thomas, elaborate design
Day 2: Basics online (CV/Teaching Statement/Coverletter): HTML and PDF Formatting
Today, we'll:
- Get your CV up online in PDF and HTML, and we'll put links in the HTML version to the rest of your portfolio. Then, we'll put your teaching statement online (linking it to your CV).
- Put your dissertation abstract online
- Put a statement about your other research interests online
- Password protecting a portion of the site for private files
- Put a list of courses taken up on your website - the department website has all of the information, so this is mainly copying and pasting.
Day 3: Teaching Portfolio
This can be done as a group or with individual lab meeting times. Here, we'll scan in your student and faculty teaching evaluations. We'll link these to your CV, and we'll take all the compiled comments that you've typed up from your students and faculty and we'll put those in files that are also linked from your CV. We'll also add in any samples of student work, graded or ungraded, that you have available.
This will be tedious; however, it will greatly ease sending your materials out because you will have an organized collection of all of these materials. Plus, it means that you will have all of this material to send out, putting you a step ahead of many other applicants.
With all of this done, we'll burn a copy of your website to CD and add in an autorun command so that you can send this super-spiffy CD out in your job packets. All your potential employer will need to do is to pop the CD in and it will open with your homepage. This is great for job applications, and it's great as a backup of all of your work.
Day 0: Set up your files with CRC
Set up your files and letters through the CRC and get ready to work with EGO in the fall on any other needed materials.
Participants
- Derrick Merrill
- Jessica Livingston
- Trisha Kannan
- "Marlo David" marlodavid@hotmail.com
Resources
- MLA 2004 hiring survey
- http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jessiem/teaching/portfolio/evals.html
- Chronicle Article
- EGO
- UCET teaching statement examples