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Improve Your e-Portfolio w/ Digital Storytelling Tips

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Digital Storytelling

To Enhance Your e-Portfolio

YOUR E-PORTFOLIO=

YOUR DIGITAL STORY!
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Thou Shalt Not Bore Thy Reader!

THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT
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HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE

to read unbroken blocks of text?

We Live in the Age of Images

So act like you know it!
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NARRATE

Why is this document on your blog?
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USE YOUR INTRO!

WHAT AM I GETTING IN EXCHANGE FOR MY ATTENTION?
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CURATE

MAKE YOUR BLOG ENTRIES VISUALLY APPEALING! YES, ALL OF THEM!
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BALANCE

Academic Content with Reader Appeal
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IMAGES

Appropriate to Your Content

Use Your Tools!

Fonts, Colors, Variable Type, Templates
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Contrast

COLORS, TEXT, IMAGES

Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity = CRAP

Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity = CRAP
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IF YOU CAN LINK IT....

THEN LINK IT!

What's Your Story?

Make your About page your core life story!
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Video You!

INTRODUCE ANY BLOG PROJECT WITH A SHORT VIDEO

SHARE

NARRATE, CURATE
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Twitter, Facebook

Google + What else?
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What 3 Things Can YOU Do

RIGHT NOW TO IMPROVE YOUR BLOG?
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