Unit 3 - A Digital Portfolio Introduction, lifecycle of a project and using HTML Unit 3 - A Digital Portfolio

A Digital Portfolio your chance to show off! showcase your achievements (to potential employers) your projects use of communication and presentation skills your capabilities and potential a shop window

Your portfolio a series of web pages with links to content that you have created Unit 13 Unit 17 multimedia assets images, sound and video Unit 19 – all about you? Unit 14 - video Uploaded to hosting.computing.hct.ac.uk to be viewed by anyone with a browser

The process

project lifecycle Initiation Planning Executing Review/closing Alternative ideas Develop selected design Executing Review/closing

Task In groups of three: Sort the cartoons of a ‘swing’ Label them to show what you think they illustrate – who’s view point do they represent? Put them in order to show where they occur in the project lifecycle

Audience and purpose make your portfolio appealing and engaging show who you are and what you are capable of structure that is logical and easy to navigate select a range of content work done on this BTEC course other appropriate content

Content Every item should be clearly introduced why is it included what does it demonstrate Multimedia assets should be used to enhance the experience - not as a substitute for good content

Examples Often used by art/creative students to support applications http://www.emrysgreen.co.uk/old/artsaward/ http://www.nikkiartsaward.blogspot.co.uk/ http://artfulmemoirs.weebly.com/

More examples Louisiana State University http://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/cxc/digital-portfolio-examples/ Business, Design, Humanities, Social Sciences & STEM. www://dcomm.cxc.lsu.edu/portfolios/08sum/atando2/index.html

Task Choose 2 sites to compare. One or both could be from LSU. What do they do well? What could be improved? What is missing? What multi-media assets do they use? Do these enhance the site? How? Use web-site analysis form

Discussion What makes a good portfolio?