V Portfolio Production

Portfolios A portfolio is designed to showcase a student’s work that meets a prescribed set of standards and is deemed by the student to be his/her own work.

Portfolios Electronic portfolio With an electronic portfolio, information can be stored digitally on a computer hard drive or some sort of removable media (pen drive, Zip disk, CD, etc.) This electronic information takes up very little physical space and is easily accessed. You can easily add sound, pictures, graphics, and even video to an electronic portfolio. The portfolio can be easily edited for content as well as updated.

Portfolios Traditional portfolio. With traditional portfolios, folders, boxes, or 3-ring binders hold papers, pictures, cassette tapes, and more. Traditional portfolios should contain a wide variety of examples of your work. There is usually a concentration of a particular style or technique or medium.

How to Create a Portfolio Decide on the format you will use (examples include CD ROM, DVD, or web page.) Also decide on the programs you will use to display your work. Power Point, Premiere, and Flash are some suggestions.

How to Create a Portfolio Plan your portfolio. Create a storyboard or flowchart on paper to plan what to put in your portfolio. Think about what work you need to include. Determine how a viewer will navigate through the portfolio. Set up a template. You can add graphics, models, and animations to the template.

How to Create a Portfolio Start entering information into the template. Information can include text, sounds, scanned images, pictures, video, or other projects you have done. All included work must be original. Include samples of your best work. Include samples to illustrate your growth in the class.

How to Create a Portfolio Students should reflect on each piece they include. These reflections can focus on what they have learned on a particular assignment, academic progress in general, and on the actual production of the electronic portfolios. The reflections can be attached as a printed document or included as text in the electronic portfolio.

Types of Portfolios Collections of work The simplest form of electronic portfolio is a collection of work saved on a pen drive, Zip-type disk, writeable CD, or hard drive. For this, you can use almost any word-processing or layout application you already have.

Types of Portfolios Collections of work While simply saving collections of work is the quickest and easiest option, it is also the least accessible to others. Accessing the work requires the viewer to have the same software that was used to create the student work.

Types of Portfolios Linear As the term implies, these electronic portfolios are sequential. Viewers start with an opening page and progress through a series of pages or slides. Applications for producing linear portfolios include such programs as ClarisWorks, Slideshow, and PowerPoint.

Types of Portfolios Linear As with electronic collections of work, accessibility can be a problem because it requires the viewer to have the same software in order to look at the portfolio. Although, with newer versions of some of these software applications, options are available that allow you to convert the files to Web page format.

Types of Portfolios Interconnected This is the most flexible format. Students can create links to jump to and from pages, sections, and subjects. If you plan to make student portfolios available as web pages, you might consider using web page design software. Web page portfolios can be accessible via the Internet to audiences worldwide.

Getting Feedback As with traditional portfolios, viewers of electronic portfolios are encouraged to share their impressions and suggestions regarding student work. Because electronic portfolios can be made available to wider audiences on the Internet, feedback can come not only from peers and teachers, but also via from parents and the community.