Hi everyone. So in this tutorial video, I'm going to show you how to create your Google
site that can be used as your e-portfolio for the class. The first thing you want to
do is go to Google Sites. Probably easiest way to get there is to go ahead and search
for it and go to Google Sites sign-in page. In order for this to work, you're going to have to
already have a gmail account. Gmail accounts are free and there's plenty of tutorials to
tell you how to how to sign up for a gmail account if you need that. So I'm going to
go to the Google Sites. You can see I already have some Google Sites I've created and we're
going to go ahead and create a new site. To do that we're going to click on this plus button.
Okay, so from here we have our first page. We can start by changing our theme. I'm going to change
it to be something that I like. It does not matter what you make your theme, as long as it is
a professional-looking portfolio, that's fine. I recommend keeping it simple, not a lot of pictures
or images. Just something plain that looks professional so you can use this to show employers
one day. So I'm going to pick the impression theme, and I'm going to change the background
image by searching for a blank white image. So there we go. So now we have a pretty clear,
plain graphic style to our web page here. So for this first one, I'm just going to make this my
name. Okay, so that gives us our first page. Now you're going to have to create multiple pages for
your e-portfolio, and this will just be the first page that we use. Now there's a bunch of different
layouts we can insert into this page, which we'll be using to create and design our e-portfolio
pages. We can add a new page, so for instance I can add a new page. I can call this one resume.
All right, so here I could have all my resume information that I can simply put into this page.
Perhaps the easiest way to do that would be... do something like this. Maybe delete the the picture
there. We can extend our text box out, and what I would do is I would just copy and paste a resume
you've already created, hopefully that you have on file, that you can use for this. If not, now's a
great time to start building your resume. Go ahead and input your information. I'm going to add one
more page- code of ethics. In the beginning of this class, you did create a code of ethics, and
what I'm going to recommend is that you take that code of ethics that you had in a discussion post,
and use that as the basis for your code of ethics that you've put in your e-portfolio site. So once
again, you can just use our text box here, and I would take a copy and paste that code of ethics,
maybe rework it a little bit, put that right in into here. Now you notice I'm using a certain
text right here that looks like it's made for a title. If we want to, we can just change that to
something different, and there's obviously other options you can do with the text, and formatting,
things of that nature. I'm not too picky on the format that you choose as long as it is something
that is professional-looking and can communicate the information well. So you can have a home page,
which you could actually. If you want to, we can just make the home page the same as the resume,
or you can just have a title page. If you want to have like a little bio,
we could do that as well. So we can have Brian Bell shortened bio who I am. If you want to
include a picture you could. Make sure to include your resume as one of the pages and the code of
ethics. Okay, now the last page, perhaps the most interesting, we're going to call that one badges.
Okay, so we have our badges here. So what this page is going to do,
is it is going to be a way for you to look back on some of the information that you've done,
some of the activities that you've done, and to display that, hopefully, one day for employers
to see the sort of the competencies that you've learned, the skills that you've learned throughout
this course. So one of those competencies would be your infusion pump testing. So you would want
to go to insert right here. You're going to type in infustion pump, and you want to include a link,
preferably a youtube link to the video of you doing the preventative maintenance testing for
the PC unit and the pump unit for the infusion pump. So for instance, I'm going to go ahead and
pull up the SPC BMET Youtube channel, and I'm just going to pull up a demonstration video for us.
Service mode... ah, here we go...
So here's let's say, for instance, this is the video that I want to use to document my infusion
pump testing. For you all, you're going to need two separate videos, or one video that contains
both the PC unit and the pump unit. So we can take that, and we can insert that right there. Or,
if we want to, you can even insert a video by going here. This is the preferred method because
this will look a lot better, if we do it this way . So we go ahead, we can put our video right here,
and we can even drag it right underneath our infusion pump test. Having the link there is nice
as well just in case people want to click on it, but this way you're going to have infusion pump.
So this is the skill that you're demonstrating. This is the evidence for that skill, which is
a really nice thing for someone who's reviewing your work, to be able to see. They can see that,
hey, you've worked with infusion pumps, you've worked with testing equipment you've worked with
all these different things, and you've proven that you can do these types of activities.
So you won't put that there now. As you go and as you create this, I want you to create two
sections: one for the infusion pump, and a second section for your electrical safety testing. So in
this class, you'll have done two key skills. You will have learned to test an infusion pump and
you will have started testing Electrical Safety, and medical equipment. So those are going to be
your two sections. So in order to add that second section, you're going to go to insert Electrical
Safety, and you're going to do the exact same thing where you will click down here. You will
go to add a YouTube video, and you'll add that video of you doing the electrical safety test.
You can also add relevant images and documents when necessary. Now ideally,
once I review this, what I can do is I will send you. So there's there's a way to publish this,
you can publish this here, but I don't wouldn't want you necessarily to finish it just right now,
because if you've done these things, what we want to do is, we want to be able to sort of verify,
the instructors at SPC want to be able to verify that you've completed that skill
correctly. So what we're going to do is we're going to give you what's called badge. A badge
is a micro credential, sort of like a non-credit certification of the skill that you've performed.
So let me get out of this site and go back to my other Google sites. Okay, so here's
an example of a completed site. Brian Bell has information about me. I have my resume set up,
although I don't have anything in there yet, but that's the idea, a code of ethics,
and then my badges, which will have all my different tests that I've done and evidence
of those tests. So here, for instance, is our electrical surgical performance testing badge,
which you can earn later we have medical device security badge infusion pump tests.
So this is a badge that you can earn in this class, and the way you would earn that badge
right now is, by: you have to complete the PC unit test, and the infusion, and the pump tests
for the Alerus 8100. So if you have those two videos, I will send you an image of this badge,
this credential here, and you can put this badge into your portfolio as evidence that your skills
have been evaluated by someone at St. Petersburg College. The same thing goes with the Electrical
Safety test. There is a badge with that, and I can send you that. This is the first time we're
trying these badges. This is something that we're implementing this year into the program. These
badges have been reviewed by people in industry. So these are things that people in industry value.
These skills are skills that we've talked to people who are working in the field right now,
and they say these are some of the most important things you can learn, and we want people who are
able to say hey we have reviewed this student's ability to perform this particular skill. So this
is one way that you can sort of stand out and say I have performed this skill. I've done this and
I have a credential to show that. Now one key thing is, in order to get this credential, you
will have to beat the person performing the test. Now if you did this as a group, and someone else
was doing the test, that's fine from a grading perspective. You will not be penalized, but in
order to get the actual credential, you have to be the person performing the test. So I hope that
gives you a little quick rundown of how to set up your e-portfolio for this class. Once you're done,
you'll want to publish that. There's different publishing settings depending on who you want to
be able to see this. So let's see, you can request that public search engines do not spoil this site.
You can work on the URL. So badge examples are our URL right now. So I'm going to publish this.
Now once the site's published, you're able to share that link with whoever you want to. So in
this case, you're going to want to put this... submit that link to my courses as a published
site. If you run into issues with this, please contact me. Don't hesitate. I'll try to help you
out and coach you through the creation of this e-portfolio. The goal of this is twofold. One,
research has shown that as you reflect on the work and the skills that you've done
throughout a program, that it helps you retain and learn information.
So as you're going through the SPC BMET program, you will continue to build this e-portfolio,
continue to build on your skills that you've learned in previous courses. Number two,
that you'd be able to take this document and use this as a way to promote yourself,
whether it's on LinkedIn, in a interview as you talk to people,
this is something you can say, as they say, "well do you really know how to do this?"
You can say, "yeah, sure. I've actually created a video of myself doing this skill of using an
electrical surgical generator, or testing medical device security,
or of doing an infusion pump performance test. So it's a really powerful tool that you can use
with employers and professionals, and I hope as you create your e-portfolio, everything
goes smoothly. If you have a choose or have questions please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you.