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

2. 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

3. 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

4. The process

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Examples Often used by art/creative students to support applications

10. More examples Louisiana State University
Business, Design, Humanities, Social Sciences & STEM.
www://dcomm.cxc.lsu.edu/portfolios/08sum/atando2/index.html

11. 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

12. Discussion
What makes a good portfolio?