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My name is Rachel Reid and I just

graduated from Point Loma Nazarene

University with my bachelors in Child and

Adolescent development and I'm honoured

to be here today, to talk to you all about

um, my experience using live text to

create my senior e-portfolio and to find

my professional voice.

I want to be a pediatric occupational

therapist and I'm currently in the process

of applying to graduate schools for that.

Each senior is required to take the
senior seminar course

during their senior year

and.. it's through that course that we
make our senior e-portfolios

and I took that in the spring, um,
it was very helpful

um, with discovering my professional voice
and reflecting on the last four years

of my education and just tying everything
together to create um, this piece.

So this is the introduction.
I have a picture and my cover letter and

resume at the bottom, and then the first
section was Professional Statements

and this was the most difficult section
for me, and it took weeks of writing

and revising and talking to my professor
and um, just a lot of brainstorming

to figure out what my
professional philosophy is.

And then the internship part and the
work experience was my favorite part

to write about.

Both semesters in my senior year, I had
um, internships through two different

pediatric occupational therapy clinics.
I created an internship project for a

twelve-year-old visual perception
client, I provided the picture

and then she asked her to adjust the
square so that the lines and the dots

would match the picture.

I also included my community involvement,
I volunteered in my church in the

Children's Ministry and I was the student
leader for the down syndrome Easter Egg

hunt this year, and I was on the
leadership team for special Olympics.

And then I was also involved with, uh,
food distribution in a

low income neighborhood.

And then for the body of work, I included
six different projects from throughout

my major classes at Point Loma.
One of them has a very special place

in my heart.
And the development of children with

special needs class, every student was
assigned to a disorder to research

and to create a um, parent and family
resource on, and the um, disorder

that I was randomly assigned to was
Sensory Processing Disorder.

I didn't know what that was, I
didn't know what kind of treatment

children would need for that,
and through that project I

discovered the field of occupational
therapy.

So, I wanted to show you this project.
This was my favorite to create,

it just means a lot.
This is where I talked about what is

Sensory Processing Disorder and it's
basically when a child has

difficulty um, with processing and
responding to sensory stimulating.

The last section, the references section,
I was able to get four letters of

recommendation for graduate schools.

So overall, using live text was such a
helpful resource and discovering my

professional voice and, even like,
learning more about myself

and preparing me for grad school,
and I plan on, um, using this as a tool

with graduate school and um,
submitting along with my applications

when I apply this fall.
So it-it just really showed who I am more

than even a paper e-portfolio
could show and I'm very thankful

that I have this opportunity. -chuckles-
Thank you. -audience applauds-