Comments on: Building Your Portfolio http://onehundredfortywords.com/2009/06/17/building-your-portfolio/ about making stuff that helps people learn Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Judy Unrein http://onehundredfortywords.com/2009/06/17/building-your-portfolio/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Judy Unrein Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:26:20 +0000 http://onehundredfortywords.com/?p=96#comment-5 Christy -- Thanks for stopping by! Yeah, I don't see why the scoffing, but I've seen that before too. It can work though, and after I posted this, I saw that someone had suggested the same in response to Tom's blog, so maybe it also worked for someone else! I've also had the same experience as Tom with people telling me they couldn't show me work because it was proprietary. Now no one has an excuse -- it's a snap to redevelop old project on your own time, right? ;) Same here on the portfolio and job situation... I should start taking a little of my own medicine! Christy — Thanks for stopping by!

Yeah, I don’t see why the scoffing, but I’ve seen that before too. It can work though, and after I posted this, I saw that someone had suggested the same in response to Tom’s blog, so maybe it also worked for someone else!

I’ve also had the same experience as Tom with people telling me they couldn’t show me work because it was proprietary. Now no one has an excuse — it’s a snap to redevelop old project on your own time, right? ;)

Same here on the portfolio and job situation… I should start taking a little of my own medicine!

]]> By: Christy Tucker http://onehundredfortywords.com/2009/06/17/building-your-portfolio/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Christy Tucker Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:09:29 +0000 http://onehundredfortywords.com/?p=96#comment-4 I often get questions via my blog from new instructional designers or people trying to switch fields on how to get some initial experience or pieces for a portfolio. I've recommended volunteering work for a nonprofit before, and some people have scoffed at me. I've never done it myself, even though it seems logical, so I wondered if I was just being unrealistic. I'm glad to see that it actually does work sometimes. I like the idea of redeveloping the old projects too; that makes a lot of sense for getting around the proprietary content issue. One of these days I should really quit procrastinating and put a portfolio together. I'm fortunate to have a stable job now, but with this economy nothing is ever really secure. I often get questions via my blog from new instructional designers or people trying to switch fields on how to get some initial experience or pieces for a portfolio. I’ve recommended volunteering work for a nonprofit before, and some people have scoffed at me. I’ve never done it myself, even though it seems logical, so I wondered if I was just being unrealistic. I’m glad to see that it actually does work sometimes.

I like the idea of redeveloping the old projects too; that makes a lot of sense for getting around the proprietary content issue.

One of these days I should really quit procrastinating and put a portfolio together. I’m fortunate to have a stable job now, but with this economy nothing is ever really secure.

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