<![CDATA[Career Development and ePortfolios : Activity]]> http://curry.elgg.org/careerdevel/ <![CDATA[My focus and energies are shifting to the "Career Cybercounseling" community]]> http://curry.elgg.org/careerdevel/weblog/2912.html Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:30:10 GMT Career Cybercounseling" (CCC).

This "Career Cybercounseling" community was created to investigate the potential of clients and licensed and/or certified cybercounselors using Elgg as a robust, state-of-the-art platform for conducting effective distance career counseling in a easy-to-use, safe, secure, private and ethically accountable environment.


Obviously, there will be much discussion (in CCC) about career development issues and hopefully, soon, we will learn more about Elgg and Eifel's efforts with ePortfolios, but for now, my focus and energies will be devoted to CCC.

When there are topics to post to this "Career Development and ePortfolios" that are unique to this community, I will post them, but for now - I expect - most of those conversations will occur on CCC.

I hope you will join us, and offer any comments you may have.

]]> <![CDATA[... greater success in school (and beyond) for those who have an awareness of the career relatedness of education ..." ]]> http://curry.elgg.org/careerdevel/weblog/976.html Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:24:36 GMT career relatedness of education are more likely to engage and achieve in school." The Educational, Social, and Economic Value of Informed and Considered Career Decisions]]> <![CDATA[]]> http://curry.elgg.org/careerdevel/weblog/847.html Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:13:27 GMT
Maybe an interesting way to approach this is to think back through the contacts that have been useful in one's career and try to classify them in order to work out how to facilitate them.

For me, just for a start, I suppose I've found out about careers or companies by talking to people already in them and been told about job adverts by friends. I've also discussed with people how best to do my job, and found people with similar interests to collaborate with.

There's also the issue that the first two of these tend to have a benefit that is somewhat one-sided, so there has to be some reason for the person with the advice to help. This may be social - I know I'll usually a help a friend of a friend in this way. Alternatively it might be because it's because there's enough evidence the person might be successful in that career and be a useful future contact.

For situations with a more mutual benefit, I suspect that it's a partly matter of getting enough people with the same interest together in the same 'place' so they can find eachother. I guess the question is how best to do that.]]> <![CDATA[Examples of a LifeWork and a career ePortfolio ]]> http://curry.elgg.org/careerdevel/weblog/843.html Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:54:29 GMT Examples of a career ePortfolio

Daniel has a good start.

Examples of a LifeWork ePortfolio

See also "My ePortfolio" Index: Examples of ePortfolios, CVs, resumes (using the Elgg/Apcala platform).

If you have started your own in either Elgg or Apcala, please copy in the appropriate tag. If you have one from outside Ellg/Apcala then post a comment with a link to it. Thank you.]]> <![CDATA[Introducing the "Career Development and ePortfolios" community ]]> http://curry.elgg.org/careerdevel/weblog/788.html Sat, 28 May 2005 17:08:25 GMT lifelong psychological and behavioral processes as well as contextual influences shaping one’s career over the life span. As such, career development involves the person’s creation of a career pattern, decision-making style, integration of life roles, values expression, and life-role self concepts.” (Herr, E.L., & Cramer, S. H. (1996). Career guidance and counseling through the lifespan: Systematic approaches. New York: HarperCollins) (Ed: My emphasis.)

The purpose of this community weblog is to discuss the development and integration of career development elements and ePortfolios.

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Below, starting with the Elgg Development community at the base, and ending with About Your LifeWork Plan at the top are all the communities and a few forums that will have some impact on the development of my vision of a LifeWork Planner.

Discuss any aspect of your LWP as though it existed. If you have a concern about the application/system, discuss it in the LifeWork Planner and ePortfolios community below.
Discuss LWP – the application/system and its functions.
Several topics about LifeWork Planner in this NCDA Forums (NF) forum.
Several topics about ePortfolios in this NF forum.
Discuss what and how CD elements are integrated into ePs and LWP.
Discuss any CD issue or topic.
This is a very key issue. Discuss how all ePs will work together and interoperate.
Propose and discuss feature requests.
Discuss Elgg development.

Elgg-based weblog communities provide a relatively unstructured and free-form virtual space to e-share and e-colloborate. Sometimes it is useful to have a hierarchical structure to provide a context. When that is appropriate, I will either add that structure to the community sidebars or I will post to topics in NCDA Forums (NF) and provide cross-links.

Click on “Community Weblog” to see posts.
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