Designing a Digital Portfolio

Task:
You must create 3 designs for your Digital Portfolio.
Content of Digital Portfolio:
- Home Page containing a Personal Statement.
- Subjects Page detailing all of your school subjects/teachers/classrooms/classwork.
- Activities Page consisting of events you are involved in and out of school.
Each of these pages may have sub-pages and hidden pages linked to them.

This means you will have three separate posts for each design titled: 
- Design 1
- Design 2
- Design 3

Using the DESIGN section of the weebly website you will consider:
Theme

Header Area
- Site Title
- Navigation Menu

General
- Paragraph Titles
- Paragraph Text
- Links
- Buttons
- Block quotes

Media
- Image Captions
- Gallery Captions
- Slideshow Captions 

MYP Areas of Interaction

Approaches to Learning:

This area of interaction is based on learning how to learn. “Approaches to learning”  is all about how a student manages to take responsibility for his or her own learning and finding out in what way he or she can learn best.

Community and Service

Community and service is an interaction that helps students discover more about their community and encourages them to contribute something to it. It’s about helping and cooperating with each other outside or inside the classroom.

Human Ingenuity

In this area of interaction students explore the human creations and how they were made and improved over time. While covering the aspects students also learn the impacts / outcomes of the human doings.

Environments

Learning about this area of interaction makes students more aware of their responsibility for the environment. Taught this, students can show more responsibility and care towards the environment and tell apart social, economic and political issues and how they impact the environment.

Health and Social Education

This area of interaction is about health and social aspects in life and in general, self-awareness. It helps you understand changes in your life, how you act and how to lead a healthy lifestyle. The student will learn to reflect on health aspects such as: physical, psychological, sociological, economic and legal.

Software Options for a Digital Portfolio

1.    HTML

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It’s used to create websites in a way that code tags have to be put in the text to apply a feature. So if you did <title>Digital Portfolio<title> then it would appear as the title on the page.

Random example links:

http://www.dgj.ch/news/index.en.html

http://www.jfh.com/index.html

Advantage: HTML is a reliable way to create a website because it’s supported and used nearly everywhere.

Disadvantage: The codes are difficult to memorize.

HTML is probably a good way of creating a webpage because the codes used are suited for even beginners and don’t need a paid software. But the downside is that learning all of the codes would be like learning a whole new language. Quite difficult.

2.     Dreamweaver

In basics, Dreamweaver is a software that allows you to make websites. It is easier to use than HTML, there is less coding and mostly a point and click thing.

Random example link: http://www.dmxzone.com/demo/Templates/SpaandWellnessShowcase/index.html

Advantage: Easy to use.

Disadvantage: The software is more limited in commands than HTML.

It will probably suit both users like me and more experienced ones. It is ideal to use.

3.     Wiki

A wiki is a web application where users view data which they can use for adding data to share with others and in collaboration with others.

http://www.wikipedia.org

http://www.wikidot.com

Advantage: Everyone can add information and edit it. This resource can be updated quickly. Information can be passed on from people all over the world that might know something about the topic.

Disadvantage: Since everyone is allowed to edit the data it may not be reliable.

In my opinion it isn't suitable for the making of a digital portfolio as a wiki is made for a different cause.

Describing Digital Portfolios

1.     What is a blog? What is a wiki? What is the difference between them?

A blog is a site set up on the WWW, specifically run by one or more users on a chosen topic. Other users can view, comment their thoughts and learn from the project but not change the content. A famous blogger website is www.blogger.com

A wiki is a website also on the WWW, not run by a specific user / group of users. The information is usually for educational purposes and can be edited by anyone. A famous wiki is www.wikipedia.com

2.     What is an online Digital Portfolio?

A digital portfolio is a portfolio stored online. The data can be put in creative ways like videos, screenshots, audio recording, pictures, etc. instead of writing. People are able to view it and see your accomplishments throughout your work.

3.     What are the three important features of a digital portfolio?

-          Eye catching

-          Informative

-          Organized

4.     List one advantage and disadvantage of a digital portfolio?

Advantage: People are able to see your strengths and may want to employ you for an important job.

Disadvantage: Others can view your personal information.

5.     Find a digital portfolio that you like, hyperlink the URL and describe the strengths and weaknesses of this portfolio.

Link: http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/

Strengths: The blog is put together very cleverly and creatively. I really like how information is expressed with the charts and that the portfolio is interactive.

Weaknesses: The only weakness I found was that the information wasn’t very particular or detailed.

6.     Discuss the portfolio and the things that leave a positive impression on you.

In my opinion, the best feature of the portfolio was the design and organization. The sufficient information was there together with the fancy design. Again, it is interactive which a great idea because not a lot of digital portfolios have that.