Digital Portfolio

OBJECTIVE:  SWBAT analyze their learning experiences by presenting their work in a digital portfolio and writing a 2-part reflection on each project.

Instructions

You are to create separate pages for all of your classes. They should be on your website as bread crumbs across the top of the page.
  • At the top of each page should be a banner with a picture representing the class and the name of the class.
  • Links to the class teacher's website 
  • A brief description of the class
  • You are to take screenshots or embed your best assignments and projects for that class on the page
  • Multiple page documents should be posted as a slide-show
  • Presentations should be embedded (Do NOT take screenshots of PowerPoints/Presentations)
  • All posted work is to have a title and reflection. 
  1. Tell what you did, and what you learned.
  2. Reflect on the project itself - was it an effective project that helped you learn the material in a way that you can remember?
  3. IMPORTANT: Remove your last name from all documents you post
Keep in mind, as always, I will give you individual feedback on your project and you will be expected to go back and make corrections to improve your grade.

After you complete this project, score yourself with this rubric.
Above is an example of a student's Digital Portfolio.
  • Reflections should have parts
  1. The reason(s) you included the assignment in your digital portfolio 
  2. What you learned doing the assignment 

Instructions

  • You are to create separate pages for all classes that you have produced content for. 
  • They should be on your website as breadcrumbs across the top
  • You are to take screenshots or embed all your work for that particular class on the page
  • Multiple page documents should be posted as a slide-show
  • Presentations should be embedded (Do NOT take screenshots of slide shows)
  • All work is to have a title and reflection paragraph(s)
  • IMPORTANT: Remove your last name from all documents you post

Screenshots


  1. Open the document you want to take a screenshot of.
  2. Resize the view so that you can see one entire page.
  3. If it is a multi-page document, you will take separate screenshots of each page.
  4. Make sure you DELETE YOUR LAST NAME from the document
  5. Open Microsoft Word
  6. Click INSERT
  7. Choose SCREENSHOT
  8. Select SCREEN CLIPPING
  9. The cursor will turn into crosshairs. 
  10. Put them in the upper left corner of your document
  11. Press and hold the mouse button
  12. Drag crosshairs to bottom right corner of your document
  13. The screenshot will appear in your Word document
  14. Right-click on the screenshot
  15. Select SAVE AS PICTURE, name, and save
  16. Repeat this process for all assignments you have created on the computer for ALL classes.

Insert Screenshots

  1. Open your website in editing mode
  2. Create a new page for each class
  3. Insert a TITLE at the top of each page and title it for a class
  4. You will then insert documents you have created for that class
  5. For each document, insert a PARAGRAPH WITH PICTURE page part
  6. Insert a screenshot of a document as a picture
  7. Resize apropriately
  8. Title each document
  9. In the paragraph, describe the document, and what you learned from the project.

Embed Presentations Slideshows

  1. You can embed your Google Presentation and your PowerPoints, but PowerPoints must be imported and converted into Google Docs first
  2. Open your Google Presentation
  3. Click the down arrow next to SHARE, and choose PUBLISH/EMBED
  4. Select PUBLISH DOCUMENT. Do NOT require Computech sign in
  5. Highlight and copy (CTRL+C) the HTML code in the box on the bottom of the page
  6. On your website, choose MORE from the editing banner
  7. Then drag a CUSTOM HTML page part onto the page
  8. Paste the code (CTRL+V) into the box
ALTERNATE INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. If your SHARE button is blue, click File and select PUBLISH TO THE WEB
  2. Click START PUBLISHING
  3. Do NOT require users to sign in
  4. Highlight and copy (CTRL+C) the EMBED CODE in the box on the middle of the page
  5. Then follow steps 6-8 above

Instructional Videos

Click on the links below to see Mr. Kimbley's video for each topic.

Create Drop Down Menus

Take a Screenshot with Microsoft Word

Insert Screenshots

Embed Presentations/PowerPoints

Edit Embedded Document Size