Day 29: Catch-up / Get-Ahead Day

Design Principles

• Breaking Down Text - Part 2
• Share with anyone who has the link
• Copy the URL
• Submit the URL through the Assignment Submission Form
• Practice good slide design - Person, Place, & Thing Presentation
• Share with anyone who has the link
• Copy the URL
• Submit the URL through the Assignment Submission Form

Personal Brand

• Finish working on your Personal Brand Presentation.

• start simple and build from there
• you can always go back and make it "better"
• this Personal Brand Checklist might help you stay on track
  

  • Share with anyone who has the link
  • Copy the URL
  • Submit the URL through the Assignment Submission Form
• Add your professional photo to all of your accounts
• Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, Weebly, Blogger, YouTube
• If you have not done so already, make a copy of this helpful document and start preparing for your future by:
• Creating your Resume
• Preparing a general Cover Letter
• Creating a list of your Network of Contacts:
• What kind of people do you have your network?
• The goal is establish quality relationships with others in your industry that you can potentially leverage, and create visibility for yourself.

Personal Brand Checklist:

Your presentation should include the following information.

____ Title Slide

____ Identify Yourself

• name
• professional picture

____ Who Are You?

• Skills
• Interests
• Values
• online values assessment
• Personality
• Goals

____ What Do You Do?

• Special Classes
• Sports, Clubs, Other School Activities
• Work Experience
• Honors, Awards, Leadership

____ Who Do You Represent?

• Role Models
• Inspirational Quotes

When you are creating your presentation remember to think about the elements of design:

____ Keep it Simple

• use bullet point statements
• no complete sentences
• eliminate unimportant words
• consider using images instead of text

____ effective image use

• where possible, use high quality photographic images to deliver your message

____ 5 by 5 Rule

• no more than 5 words per line
• no more than 5 lines per slide

____ make it look good

• simple fonts

____ balance “white-space”

• use eye-pleasing, contrasting color

http://colorschemedesigner.com/csd-3.5/

____ consider text emphasis

• bold
• italics
• underline
• color
• size
• font style

____ be consistent

• layout and color scheme
  
  

Digital Footprint

Twitter Account Checklist:

• Complete your Twitter profile following the Twitter Account Checklist

____ Professional Picture

____ Appropriate Bio

____ Engaging Banner Image

Follow:

____ follow @BuckChivas2

____ follow everyone who follows @BuckChivas2

____ Follow people or companies related to your social media campaign

Create:

____ favorite, retweet, and reply to each other to improve your digital footprints

____ post something about your social media campaign, using your hashtag

____ post something positive

____ promote a school event

____ @ mention anyone related to your tweet

____ favorite and retweet others that you follow

Add value online:

____ retweet with a value add comment

____ tweet links to relevant articles, videos, or websites

____ use pictures to enhance your message

____ create interactive polls

LinkedIn Profile

• Create a LinkedIn Account
• Complete the basic information
• Upload a professional picture
• Update your public profile settings to create a custom URL for your profile
• Create a link to your LinkedIn profile from your Weebly website
• Read the article about how to write the perfect LinkedIn summary
• Write your LinkedIn summary

Showcase Website / Digital Portfolio

Log into your Weebly account and add pages for Home, About, Contact, Portfolio

Add content to the Home page

• Make your name stand out
• Add a button to link to your About page
• Include your personal statement
• Consider creating a welcome video for this page

Create an About page with your professional picture, activities, and honors

• School
• Extracurricular Activities
• Volunteering
• Skills & Languages
• What programs and/or applications would you say you are proficient at?  
• What computer skills do you have to offer at this point in your career?
• Soft skills developed
• Include information on soft skills you developed thus far such as communication, time management, collaboration, etc.  Check out a list of soft skills HERE.
• Honors & Awards
• Add pictures that relate to the different activities
• Consider adding an About Me Video

Create a Contact page with links to Gmail, Twitter, YouTube, Blogger, and LinkedIn

• Use images as links to your professional social media accounts
• Consider creating a video that explains your brand name

Create a Portfolio page with links to examples of your work

• Performance videos
• plays, sports, concerts, speeches, service projects, etc...
• Evidence of your writing
• School projects of which you are proud