- Creates a Multimedia Testament to One's Accomplishments
- DigitallyU gives every student, educator, professional, and business executive the power to broadcast a multimedia biography focused on personal accomplishments, learning outcomes, and potential.
- DigitallyU's powerful patent-pending interface brings the inherent persuasion of audio, video, photography and documentary to your fingertips. With our simple click, drag and drop technology anyone can create a portfolio that comes alive with sound, video, and photography.
- Users no longer have only text-based explanations of their achievements, with DigitallyU they will be able to show performance evidence to decision makers.
- Improves Communication
- DigitallyU helps people get their message across to those they need to impress. In the absence of face-to-face meetings, multimedia is the best way to show oral persuasiveness - a skill necessary for success. Impressing a specific audience means that the order your content is placed matters most. Our software interface is designed to make users think about the communicative value of their content and how best to present it.
- DigitallyU is a revolutionary tool in the pantheon of instruments used for communication. It brings together the labor of pens, cameras, audio devices, and video recorders and molds them into a compelling, digital broadcast story.
- Advances Critical Thinking
- Our software encourages critical thinking about the order of portfolio content. Our simple, powerful interface allows users to focus on multimedia content and sequence of events versus Web site design and development.
- Also, thinking about personal growth involves a great deal of reflection and decision. Users will ask themselves the questions: 1. What is more important? 2. What do I want to say?
- Your accomplishments have a history. DigitallyU helps you maximize, organize, and prioritize.
- Show a Variety of Performance Evidence in Multiple Disciplines in One Location
- Video, photography, audio, documents and other digital artifacts authenticate your performance and illustrate proof of performance. These artifacts are often housed in inaccessible, disjointed locations - a drawer, a CD, or elsewhere. DigitallyU provides users the power to compile digital performance artifacts in one location to be viewed globally.
- Video of award presentations, transcripts, photographs showing accomplishments, career milestones, and experiences can all be broadcast in a multimedia extravaganza about you.
- A Dynamic Assessment Resource
- DigitallyU allows portfolio builders to display achievement and learning in ways undervalued or overlooked by other traditional assessment methods.
- SATs just aren't enough. College admissions officers can go beyond the numbers and evaluate applicants' leadership, volunteerism, personal experiences and academic endeavors.
- Educators can assess student work. School administrators can evaluate teaching portfolios. Employers can view candidate qualifications and use DigitallyU for HR management.
- Corporations bidding on large engagements can show the accomplishments, qualifications, and experience of project teams and feature clients in videotaped testimonial interviews.
- Reveals Personal Growth
- Over time, people develop skills, gain experience, and also learn more about themselves. DigitallyU allows users to build portfolios dynamically illustrating personal growth over time using multimedia.
- Individuals will find that their portfolio will be enhanced over time. More significant accomplishments build upon older achievement events. DigitallyU acts as a digital public relations archive and delivery engine.
- Demonstrates Real-world Skills
- Oral persuasiveness, performance, writing, producing, self-marketing, elocution, organization, and skills that can't be conveyed on applications or through resumes come to life with DigitallyU.
- Using video, slideshows, and other multimedia artifacts, individuals show what they can do, not just what they know.
- Exemplifies Unique Blends of Intelligence
- Disparate skills are measured by the SAT and other standardized tests. DigitallyU provides the opportunity to demonstrate blends of intelligence that are not statistically measured, but viewed, seen and appreciated by decision-makers.
- DigitallyU is a personal entrepreneurial delivery vehicle that demonstrates unique blends of intelligence.
- Enhances Information Technology Skills
- While there are no html or programming skills required to build a DigitallyU portfolio, users will absorb the fundamental aspects of Web interface design.
- Users of DigitallyU will also learn the basic tenets of Web design because DigitallyU places rich media in proximity to explanations and captions.
- DigitallyU is Fun.
- Users will have an opportunity to reflect on their accomplishments. It's fun producing a portfolio that comes to life through audio, video, and photography as opposed to simple text-based listings of achievements.