1. SPECIAL All-round Student Award
Hands-on Workshop
February 2010

2. Outline of the Workshop
Award objectives / gains
Minimum Entry Requirement
Application Guidelines
Build your Showcase (ePortfolio)
Key dates

3. Certificate & Cash Prize
Two levels of Awards
Gold Award: $5000 (max of 10 awards/year)
Merit Award: $3000 (max of 20 awards/year)
SPECIAL Exemplary Showcase
Additional cash prize of $5000

4. Benefits to Students Attractive prizes $$$ Learning process
Connect your outside classroom experience,
Reflect on learning outcomes
Showcase your learning achievement
ePortfolio: marketing yourself

5. Entry Requirement 5 domains of SPECIAL + 1200 points 
Full-time degree / Higher Diploma students  
Submit your showcase by 8 March 2010
Welcome
Goals
Reflection on Learning
Evidence of Accomplishment

6. Check my Score SPECIAL ePortfolio Click <myProfile>
Select <SPECIAL Score>

7. SPECIAL stands for the different domains of
Generic Competencies
Social Development
Teamwork & Leadership
Communication & Interpersonal Skills
Biliteracy and Trilingualism
Physical and Psychological Wellbeing
Healthy Lifestyle and Emotional Quotient
Ethics
Social & National Responsibility
Career Development
Entrepreneurship
Intellectual Development
Problem Solving,
Critical and Creative thinking
Aesthetics
Cultural appreciation
Learning
Global Outlook
(interest in local & international affairs)
Lifelong Learning
SPECIAL
stands for the different domains of
desirable generic competencies [通才技能] contributing to students’ all-round development and successful future.
What’s behind SPECIAL? It carries 7 domains of all-round development. Each domain focuses on a number of generic competencies which are valued by employers, irrespective of the discipline and profession.
That’s all about SPECIAL. Students are groomed to become SPECIAL in a way that they can articulate their learning experiences to impress prospective employers.

8. How to apply? Showcase (possible tabs) Customize your Tab Names
(1) Welcome
(2) Goals & Learning
(3) Reflection on Learning
(4) Evidence on Accomplishments
Customize your Tab Names

9. Showcase at a glance

10. Key Elements of Showcase
Purposeful Learning
– connected into an integrated whole
- Connect > Reflect > Evidence
Reflective Learning
– strategic focus areas identified
– showing breadth and depth of experience
Evidence of learning
– demonstrating outcomes, learning accomplishment, competencies.

11. What makes a good showcase?
Goals: focused, realistically challenging, relevant and measurable    
Experiences: vivid examples of personal growth, planned action executed  
Reflection: self-understanding gained and ability to review the whole experience and share new insight  
Well-organized artifacts: evidence showing one’s learning accomplishment

12. Resize your pictures before uploading
Technical Tips
Free Storage of 500MB – 1 GB
Resize your pictures before uploading
Support multi-media artifacts (any format of evidence)

13. Key Dates Period/Deadline Description 25 Nov 2009
Brief Introduction to Award Scheme
End of Jan 2010
SPECIAL Promotion Counter
9 Feb 2010
Award Application Hands-on Session (Series I)
23 & 25 Feb 2010
Award Application Hands-on Session (Series II) Re-run
8 March 2010
Submission Deadline
Mar – Apr 2010
Selection Interview
Jun 2010
Result Announcement & Prize-giving

14. Enquiry & Support Website: www.polyu.edu.hk/sao/allround
SPECIAL ePortfolio
Resources  User Manual:
How to build myShowcase