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Editing Your E-Portfolio:

e-Portfolio Editing

Editing and Viewing Modes

The tabs at the top left on the page let you switch among editing and viewing modes.

Edit Mode: When you log in and view your portfolio, you first see it in Edit Mode. Edit Mode (the Edit tab) displays all your editing options for adding Sections, Pages
and Modules (more about those features to follow).
Preview Mode: Click the Preview tab to preview your draft changes before you
publish them to ensure that they are what you want.
Published Mode: Click the Published tab to display the published version of your portfolio – what your e-Portfolio visitors see. It does not display anything saved as a draft.

Click the Portfolio Settings tab at the top right to do the following:

Change the settings of your e-Portfolio at any time by returning to the page where
you entered the Title, Web Address, and Permission Settings for your e-Portfolio.
Scroll to the bottom of the tab for the options Delete to erase your entire e-Portfolio and Download Your e-Portfolio to copy your E-portfolio to disk

Organizing Your e-Portfolio

Creating Sections and Pages

Before adding content to your e-Portfolio, plan the structure of your e-Portfolio. Also, remember that you can create more than one e-Portfolio with your account, so you do not need to fit all your projects or content into one e-Portfolio.

What sections would best represent the work, information, topics, or achievements that you will present in your e-Portfolio. Within each section, what pages will you need to organize your content. You can modify these sections and pages later, but you need an initial structure to get started.

Adding and Editing Sections

To add or edit your e-Portfolio sections, make sure you are viewing your e-Portfolio in Edit Mode. Then click the Add/Edit tab. To add a new section, click on the Add
Section button at the right on the Add/Edit tab.

In the Section name field, enter the title of the section you are adding, and click the Save button. To add another section, click the Add Section button again..

To add sections with customized Web page addresses or sections that you do not want
to display within the e-Portfolio (Hidden Sections), click the Show Advanced link.

To customize the Web page address of the section you are adding, complete the
displayed Section address.

To hide the section, click the Hide this page check-box.

To return to the page at which you can add sections without customized Web addresses, click the Hide Advanced link.

To edit an existing section, click the icon to the right of that section name at the bottom of the page.

Changing the order of sections

You can change the order of sections by dragging and dropping a section to a new place in the sequence. A red dotted line indicates the area where it may be dropped.

Adding Pages

To add e-Portfolio pages:
1. Make sure the Edit tab is highlighted.
2. In the View Sections area, click the section to which you want to add pages. In
the following example, the section About Me was selected.
3. In the View Pages area, click the Add/Edit tab. To add a new page, click the
Add Page button at the right.
4. Enter the page name, and click the Save button.

To add another new page, click the Add Page button again.

In the preceding sample screen, the pages Education and Interests have been added
and the page Hobbies is ready to be added.

To add sections with customized Web page addresses or sections that you do not want
to display within the e-Portfolio (Hidden Sections), click on the Show Advanced link.

Editing Pages

To edit an existing page, click the icon to the right of the page.

Changing the order and priority of pages
You can change the order of pages by dragging and dropping a page to a new place in
the sequence. You can also create a sub-page by dropping a page in an indented
location, as shown in the preceding sample screen..

Adding and Editing Modules

To add or edit content within your e-Portfolio you must be in Edit Mode. Select a section and a page within your e-Portfolio for which you want to add or edit content. In the following sample screen, the section Courses and the page Art History are selected.

You can use any combination of the following two options to structure the content of your e-Portfolio pages.

The basic building block of structuring a page is a Module. Modules define what kind of content can be added and also the layout of this content within the page. You can add multiple modules to a page for flexibility in how you customize the presentation of your work.

Adding Content to Your e-Portfolio

There are several types of Modules from which to choose:

Image/Video Module
The Image/Video module enables you to display a single large piece of media, such as
a movie or an image.

Rich Text Module
The Rich Text module provides a rich text area that can contain formatted text and
display links, files, and images in-line.

Gallery Module
The Gallery module gives you the flexibility of presenting multiple images on a page, using thumbnails or simple numbering across the page to link to large images. Each image has a rich text caption field as well.

Contact Form Module
For added security and to avoid unsolicited e-mails, the Contact Form module enables
you to be contacted through your e-Portfolio by email without publishing your email
address.

You can choose multiple modules for each page you create. The variety of layouts
enable you to choose ones that will best present your work.

Adding a Module to a Page

To add a module to a page:

Select the module type to add. In the following sample screen, the Image/Video
module has been selected.
Click Add This Module.
Click Done.

Module Options

After you finish adding a Module of any text or media type by clicking Done, several
buttons and tabs are available as options.

These buttons are at the top of the page:

Add A Module: Add another module to the current page.
Publish All: Publish any saved media or text modules to your e-Portfolio. This is especially helpful when there are multiple modules on a page.

These tabs are in a row below the buttons:

View Media or View Text: Display your saved but not published module content.
Edit: Add and edit module content.
Publish: Publish a specific module within your e-Portfolio.
Delete: Erase the module from the page.
Drag to reorder: Rearrange modules on a page.

Need more help?

e-Portfolio Quick Start Guide
e-Portfolio Help Guide
Assessment Management System Help Guide
Courses and Communities Help Guide
Digication Support

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Secret #1: Simplicity

Newton's First Law of Motion
Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion.

Bodies at rest tend to stay at rest.

Stone's First Law of Mojo
Bodies in Mojo tend to stay in Mojo.

Bodies not in Mojo tend to follow the bodies that are in Mojo.

But to have Mojo, life must be simple (not complex).

The Triad that Leads to Happiness
Happiness is a byproduct of Enjoyment, and Enjoyment is a byproduct of Simplicity. Put another way, Simplicity breeds Enjoyment and Enjoyment breeds Happiness.

The Triad that Leads to UNhappiness
Complexity breeds Anxiety. Anxiety breeds Stress. And Stress breeds Unhappiness (studies also show that stress leads to illness and death).

Happiness ... in Simple Terms
Psychologists who research happiness have been saying that Simplicity is a key to happiness for awhile now. To paraphrase without the benefit of a PhD, here's why:

Focusing on a limited and manageable number of projects that we enjoy doing, enables us to experience enjoyment. As we finish one enjoyable project after another, two things are automatically generated: a) enjoyment in the moment of doing the projects, and b) lots of little successes that build our confidence and sense of accomplishment. Repeating these two experiences over and over and over, thousands of times in life, creates competence, which in turn creates confidence. Lots and lots of all of this combined creates Mojo (if you're not yet aware of the term Mojo, check out the movie Austin Powers).

Or ... we can choose to multi-task.

UNhappiness ... in Complex Terms

When we choose to live busy, 'do-run-run' lives with too many things-to-do, we end up multi-tasking as an inevitable result. There's only one problem with multi-tasking: brain scientists now agree that the brain canNOT multi-task. The brain deals with one thing at a time sequentially, and it cannot process multiple things all at once. Multi-tasking is a misnomer. It doesn't exist. So, when we ask our brains to do multiple things at once, it simply processes bits and pieces of all these things one at a time, and we miss parts of each thing we're trying to focus on.

More importantly, while trying to multi-task, we don't ever allow ourselves to get immersed in one thing to the point of enjoyment. Getting immersed in the intracasies of one thing can be the ultimate form of enjoyment. Sometimes it's called being in the 'zone' or the 'flow' due to the sensual pleasure and deep satisfaction of feeling 'at one' with something or someone in a moment in time. Opposite of 'the zone' or 'the flow', multi-tasking over an extended period of time keeps us distant from the people and things that surround us, and it becomes an infuriating process for our brains (listen to these two reports on NPR: report #1, report #2).

When our lives are complex and fast-paced, we repeat a very different pattern of experiences than we do when our lives are simple. The experiences of a complex and fast-paced life tend to be more shallow and less enjoyable. When we experience this thousands of times over and over and over, this behavior causes anxiety, stress and feelings of inadequacy.

In the midst of a life filled with complexity, stress and anxiety, it's difficult to find the space and the peace to be in the here and now with nature and with those you love and to experience the full benefit of life.

Simplicity Crisis ©
Many of the wise older people I know went through a simplicity crisis at some point in their life --- most often in their 40’s. What is a simplicity crisis? Well, they just woke up one day and realized that too much of what they did day-to-day revolved around Things. Either they were buying Things, or fixing Things, or selling Things, or moving Things, or doing paperwork for their Things. Or, they were working more and more to pay for all of their Things. Things were dominating their lives. And they found that they were interacting more and more with people in relation to managing all of their Things, rather than actually DOING enjoyable activities with their family or friends. Their Things were creating their life. The tail was wagging the dog.

Fortunately, the solution for this is rather easy: Get rid of the Things we have that aren’t contributing to our enjoyment in life. The Goal is to begin spending more time doing things we enjoy, and less time managing material possessions. It's helpful to remember that, until about 100 years ago, 99.999 percent of the people in the world didn't have Things. They lived close to the earth and close to each other. The Zen Buddha calls this "no-thing-ness".

Multitasking & Relationships
The same simplicity concept can be translated to relationships as well. For millions of years, the lack of transportation technology limited travel, and thus limited the number of people we could come in contact with on a daily basis. Our DNA carries with it the ability to build meaningful relationships with only a limited number of people. It takes a lot of our brain power and much of our personal spirit to build the complex interpersonal webs necessary for these relationships. To build these webs, the environment must be supportive (with opportunities to interact with people in a meaningful way, with limited distractions).

The corporate world (by its very nature) shatters these boundaries with airline travel, masses of people in one building, hundreds of intertwined issues in a single day, and the notion that networking with lots of people at a shallow level is somehow a key to success. Most environments even stack guilt on the person who doesn't juggle the webs required for multitasking and networking.

There is a seismic shift happening in the business world today. Our next generation of leaders are operating under a different set of values than their parents. These values are centered on things like 'meaning' and intrinsic rewards rather than extrensic rewards like status, power or the accumulation of material Things. More and more businesses and organizations are recognizing this, and they are turning the traditional corporate model on its head. These are the organizations at the top of the 'most innovative' lists in business magazines (i.e. Fast Company & Businessweek). Over the next decade, organizations will need to follow these leaders and transition into more open innovative models to survive and compete.

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