Portfolios - Creating Pages

Using technology to enhance the learning experience for students with varied learning styles is important -- as is creating projects at a LoTi level of 3 or higher. We're going to step away from this today and work at a LoTi level 1 as we develop an environment to showcase the work you have done this semester.

We will begin to build your website today, you'll continue to add to it throughout the remainder of the semester. This website will allow you to connect all of your course projects together so that you will finish the semester with your own web-based portfolio.

Being able to communicate via the web to parents, co-workers, students, and the community is important -- building this website will help you to begin learning how to create an online presence that can ease you into those communications. As you work on your website -- think about what image you want to project, what ideas you want to get across, and what level of communication you want to have with your audience. View samples from previous semesters to get an idea of how you might organize your work. You also have a checklist to keep you on track with the requirements for the portfolio.

You'll probably want to download the 30-day trial of Dreamweaver and Fireworks so that you can work from home: Download trial There is also an online tutorial that may help you: Dreamweaver tutorial.

Continue working on your Fireworks elements outside of class -- it is due on Thursday, April 20.


Coming up:
Tuesday, April 18 - Adding all of your project work into your portfolio, final reflection assignment
Thursday, April 20- Menu page due, inserting images into your portfolio, showcase assignment
Tuesday, April 25 - Uploading your portfolio to the web
Thursday, April 27- Final reflection due, Portfolio due, End-of-course evaluation, showcase of portfolios

Web-based Portfolio Handouts: Missing a handout? - print it out here:

1. Checklist for required components
2. Creating a menu page and an autobiographical page in Fireworks
3. Creating pages for your web-based portfolio
   

Portfolios - Preparing Images, Day 2

I've changed the schedule around a bit so you'll have the opportunity to work on your 2 required graphic elements in Fireworks during today's class. I've also changed the due date for these elements to Thursday, April 20.

You are required to create 2 graphic elements using Fireworks:
1. A menu page that directs portfolio viewers to the 6 main elements of your portfolio:
Productivity Tools
Inspiration (or Kidspiration)
iMovie
WebQuest
PowerPoint Game
Autobiography

You will most likely use images and other graphic elements along with text to complete your menu page. This graphic should be 750 pixels x 550 pixels. You will save this graphic as menu.png in your assignments folder.

2. An autobiography page that will share information about you for future employers. You will want to include at least 4 personal pictures and captions for each picture. Do not include pictures that you would not want a future employer to see. This graphic should be 700 x 800 and you will save it as bio.png in your assignments folder.

See the handout from last Thursday's class for more detailed information about using Fireworks to create these graphics.

On Thursday we will begin creating your pages -- spend some time looking over student examples from previous semesters so you can begin to plan what your professional portfolio will look like.

Coming up:
Thursday, April 13 - Creating your web-based portfolio with Dreamweaver
Tuesday, April 18 - Adding all of your project work into your portfolio, final reflection assignment
Thursday, April 20- Menu page due, inserting images into your portfolio, showcase assignment
Tuesday, April 25 - Uploading your portfolio to the web
Thursday, April 27- Final reflection due, Portfolio due, End-of-course evaluation, showcase of portfolios