Background

Digital portfolios are electronic collections of learning artifacts intentionally curated to showcase a student’s accomplishments and growth over time. A combination showcase/reflective portfolio enables students to show their best work and document connections between course materials and personal experiences.

Objective

Create a digital portfolio that allows students to showcase best work and review and reflect on course activities, knowledge, and skills.

Enduring Understanding

The process of reflection allows students to appreciate and better understand the purpose of the activity.

Materials Needed

Computer with Internet access
Slideshow presentation software
USB storage drive
Past best work
Portfolio checklist
Portfolio rubric

Directions

For this assignment, you will organize your best work from this course and present it as a digital portfolio through a slide presentation platform such as PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Prezi. You will also reflect on the work and your process of making and organizing it. After submitting a copy for assessment, you will present your portfolio to an audience assigned by the teacher. For the portfolio:

Organization: Your portfolio should be comprised of a title slide, a reflective intro/summary, a table of contents, work samples, reflections for each artifact, and a conclusion. You must have a logical explanation for the order in which your portfolio work is presented. Typically, you may want to stick with a chronological order, but sometimes other criteria are more important. Decide on an overall design for your portfolio: layout, color scheme, and choice and placement of graphics. Do not overload your pages with photographs or other graphics; they can create a cluttered look and greatly increase the time a page takes to load. Be sure to follow copyright laws if you are using graphics other than ones personally created.
Completeness: Use the Digital Design and Animation Digital Portfolio Checklist to ensure all required work samples have been included. Check and double-check your list to avoid omitting important required elements.
Neatness: Pay attention to typos, spelling, and formatting; a neat, organized portfolio is impressive. Being organized and neat will help you in future projects beyond high school or college.
Visual appeal: Include images, 3D models/sketches, and other interesting materials that exemplify your learning in this course.
Variety of artifacts and supporting materials: An ambitious student will always go above and beyond the minimum requirements for a portfolio. Show interest in the assignment by adding relevant support materials to your portfolio, such as thumbnail sketches/screenshots/pictures that demonstrate the evolution of an artifact.