Creating an E-Portfolio Using Blogger and Google Documents

1. Sign up for a Google Account--www.gmail.com.  This will include access to Gmail, Google Docs, and lots of other features.  If you are my student, colleague, or associate, and you need an invitation to Gmail, contact me (sharon.gerald at gmail dot com or at jcjc dot com). I will send you one.
2. Sign up on Blogger using your Google identity--www.blogger.com.
3. Follow the step-by-step instructions on Blogger to create a blog.
4. In Google Documents, create the pages that you want to add to your e-portfolio.  You'll want to make a new page for each new element.  These would include pages about your education, experience, skills, and activities as well as pages with your writing samples and so forth.
5. Publish your Google Documents as web pages.
6. On your blog, go "layout" and "add page element" to create link lists.  Link from there to your published Google Document pages.
7. Post a welcome message on your blog introducing yourself and your e-portfolio.
8. If you would like to link to photo galleries or other elements to your e-portfolio, use the "add page element" feature under "layout" to add them to your sidebar.  You might link to places where you have already created galleries, or you might make new ones using the presentation feature in Google Documents.
9. If you have PowerPoint presentations from work or from school that you would like to share, use the presentation feature in Google Documents to publish them so that you can link to them from your Blogger page.
10. If you have a blog, a MySpace or Facebook page, or anything that shows your creativity and/or abilities and would not embarrass you in a professional capacity, feel free to also link to that.