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Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab Career Education

ILPL Video Series

The ILPL hosts a short video series to help guide students through the process of creating their digital presence and ePortfolio. The video series covers a variety of topics, including introductions to the ILPL's work and mission, understanding your purpose in creating an ePortoflio, sharing your online materials, and more! Check out the videos below about this step-by-step process to learn more. Return here or subscribe to our YouTube channel for regular updates.

Introduction to the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab

Who are we and what do we do? Come learn about the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab's work and mission within Stanford's Career Education Department!

What is Digital Presence?

Whether you have curated it or not, you have a digital footprint. It tells your story to the audiences that search for you online, such as admissions officers and employers. Learn about your own digital presence and how to make it work for you. Watch ILPL's other videos for more information.

Why Is Digital Presence Important?

We depend on people's online presence to find out more about who they are for a variety of purposes such as employment and admissions. Your digital presence is an advocate for you when you are not in the room where these decisions are made. Watch ILPL's other videos for more information about curating your own online footprint.

Overview of Digital Presence Framework

This video provides an overview of the framework for creating digital presence, one that can guide you through telling your story. 

What's Your Story Now?

Your online presence is made up of all your digital traces, including social media, personal websites, articles that mention your name, and more! In order to more perfectly curate your online presence, you must understand what is already out there about you.

Purpose and Audience

After investigating your current online presence, you should ask yourself, "Who am I curating this for?" It may be for a specific customer base, future employers, family and more! You have many purposes and audiences and can begin to identify them here.

Story Strategies

Why is a story important? When we pair data with stories, they resonate with audiences because they are memorable, impactful and personal. There are several storytelling strategies that you can mix and match to help you develop an overall headline in your digital presence.

Evidence

In this video we will learn the importance of the fourth step in the storytelling process of providing evidence. Evidence is formed by combining carefully curated artifacts with meaning to represent your story.