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Technology Tips: Update Your OU Homepage

Every student, staff, and faculty member at OU has the option of creating a personal OU webspace. The idea is that this webspace is part of your educational activities at OU. It is also how you are represented to the world when people search for you in the OU Directory, because search.ou.edu automatically directs people to your OU homepage.

Earlier in the semester for this online class, you activated your OU webspace and you published a homepage. For the purpose of this assignment, I'd like you to go back and take a look at your OU homepage and revise it to reflect your educational experiences so far here at OU, along with any other information about yourself you would want to share with the general public, including prospective employers.

So, in order to complete this assignment, please either modify your existing OU homepage, or completely redo your existing OU homepage so that you are able to provide a current and accurate representation of your OU identity. Here are some ideas of things you can include on your OU homepage to help define your OU identity. You are not required to include all of these items. These are just meant to give you some ideas to work with:

• Your name clearly and prominently displayed on the page.
• An email address (if you do not have one already, I strongly suggest you get a Gmail address)
• A personal photo with a caption (if the image is not a good size for displaying on the web, then resize the image so that it fits nicely on the page).
• Information about your major here at OU, including a link to your departmental webpage and other links relevant to your field of study, etc.
• Information about your educational accomplishments at OU, such as a brief list of the courses you have taken, the skills you have acquired in your courses, etc.
• Information about your technology skills, such as your ability to publish webpages, along with any other software or web expertise.
• Information about your goals - professional goals, educational goals, personal goals, a statement of your life philosophy, etc.
• Information about your extracurricular activities and interests - including links to online organizations you belong to, links to online information about events you have participated in, etc.
• Other information about yourself in the form of a brief personal biography, such as where you are from, important life experiences, etc.
• A link to an online version of your resume as a Word document (you can use Google Documents to publish your resume online as a Word document in a way that is easy to keep updated, or you can use the Optimal Resume system provided by OU Career Services.)
• A link to any online projects you have published, such as your Storybook for this class!
• A link to any blog or website you have created that you want to share as part of your public online identity (but remember, this is a public page focused on potential employers who might be checking you out online: don't link to a blog unless you want people to read it in order to learn more about you, your writing, etc.)

When you are done with the page, send the instructor an email with a link to the page. If you are in the Myth-Folklore class, use the Subject Line Myth-Folklore OU Homepage; if you are in Indian Epics, Indian Epics OU Homepage; or for World Literature, World Lit OU Homepage.

When you have sent in the email, you can do the Gradebook Declaration for Extra Credit.