My presentation addresses how to negotiate personal, student, and professional identity construction in the development of online portfolios for use in both coursework and transitioning into the workplace. For this presentation, I would like to draw upon my own experiences in creating a professional online portfolio while an undergraduate student. I will speak about audience and multimodal awareness in the crafting of a public, professional identity that combines text and visual forms in the digital space. This will include design choices, sample selections, copyright considerations, branding, and content management. I will also talk about how this portfolio, which I launched in 2004 and still maintain, has evolved through the years along with my professional identity and the technology that supports it.

1. iDENTITY
negotiating constructions of self in
the digital space

2. professional writing & digital
communication
rhetoric & writing
writer, editor, nerd

3. PERFORM@TIVE
iDentity

4. 2004
Portfolio goes live
2006
First major redesign
2008
2009
URL and hosting
Move to WordPress,
second major redesign
2011
Typekit installed
now
Redesign in progress

5. Student transitioning to Professional
Professors
Classmates
Employers
Clients

11. @UTHORSHIP
iDentity

16. CUR@TIVE
iDentity