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Digital Portfolio Format:
- Title page that includes:
- Table of contents
- SMART Goal & Action Plan
- 6 Pillars Essay (once it has been edited after writing conference)
- Job Application Page that includes:
- Cover Letter
- Résumé
- Job Application
- Thank You Letter
- Interview Skills Page that includes:
- Interview Answers
- Appropriate/Inappropriate Dress collage
- Student Work Collection
- Eight pieces of work/accomplishments that you are proud of from your high school career
- Senior Project Items
- Compilation of research paper and project process documentation
- Research paper
- Project journal with picture verification for each entry
- Student self-evaluation
- Additional documentation of project (flyers, brochures, receipts, etc.--as applicable)
- Any other artifacts gathered or created--as applicable
Student Work Collection: Items to Consider
Some of what you are working to accomplish during third quarter will be supplementary materials for your senior project. This week, you should choose no fewer than eight pieces of work that you have accomplished during your high school career that exhibit some of your best work.
Your task is to gather this work together into some sort of collection. This may be a physical collection (like a scrapbook), a slide show that you put together, or a website. You need a neat, organized way to show your best work to your potential academic institutions and potential employers.
Employers who view portfolios are generally looking for several things. First, they want to see that you are capable of doing good work. This means that you should very carefully examples of school work that show your work ethic. Secondly, your portfolio examples should illustrate a set of skills you have and what assets you have to offer. Lastly, you need to choose how diverse you'd like your portfolio to be. Is it best to highlight one set of special skills, or illustrate many skills from many different interest areas. It's up to you. Your portfolio stands in place of observing you work.
Suggestions (but not limited to) for Portfolio items:
Some items may be impossible to show in person. In this case, you should provide pictures or any paperwork you have to go along with it.
1. A difficult test that you did well on
2. A physical project from Industrial Tech., Ag, or FACS class
3. A website you have created
4. A paper you have written
5. A video project
6. Artwork
7. 4-H projects
8. Creative projects for class
9. music recordings
10. Materials from a presentation
11. Book projects
12. web design or virtual reality projects
13. Lab reports
14. Any project that illustrates learning in a particular class
Your task is to gather this work together into some sort of collection. This may be a physical collection (like a scrapbook), a slide show that you put together, or a website. You need a neat, organized way to show your best work to your potential academic institutions and potential employers.
Employers who view portfolios are generally looking for several things. First, they want to see that you are capable of doing good work. This means that you should very carefully examples of school work that show your work ethic. Secondly, your portfolio examples should illustrate a set of skills you have and what assets you have to offer. Lastly, you need to choose how diverse you'd like your portfolio to be. Is it best to highlight one set of special skills, or illustrate many skills from many different interest areas. It's up to you. Your portfolio stands in place of observing you work.
Suggestions (but not limited to) for Portfolio items:
Some items may be impossible to show in person. In this case, you should provide pictures or any paperwork you have to go along with it.
1. A difficult test that you did well on
2. A physical project from Industrial Tech., Ag, or FACS class
3. A website you have created
4. A paper you have written
5. A video project
6. Artwork
7. 4-H projects
8. Creative projects for class
9. music recordings
10. Materials from a presentation
11. Book projects
12. web design or virtual reality projects
13. Lab reports
14. Any project that illustrates learning in a particular class
How To: Adding Documents to your Weebly Website Portfolio
IF....
You have a multi-page document (Such as your job application) - You can add it as an embedded document (This may be blocked by our filter. You may choose instead to upload a .pdf document to Google docs and embed it using "Custom HTML".)
You have a one page document that includes graphics- You can export it first as a PDF and then as a JPG file to add as a picture
You have a document that is only text, you may choose to copy paste it into a paragraph box in Weebly
You have a document made using a web tool, you may embed it using "Custom HTML"