What Is A Digital Portfolio?

a)     What are the three important features of a digital portfolio?

Goal driven and show the life and the work of the owner

Allow parents and teachers to see the work of student

Can compare the work of the student over time to see the improvement

b)    List one advantage and one disadvantage of a digital portfolio

Advantage	Disadvantage
Students can demonstrate proof of their technical skills while also displaying their ability to apply technology in the creation of multimedia presentations, software programs.	Be aware of the possibility of plagiarism as it may be easier to use your information as it is already in a digital format and easily copied and pasted or saved onto another person’s computer

c)     Find a student digital portfolio that you like, hyperlink the URL and describe the strengths and weaknesses of this portfolio

http://www.whatkidscando.org/archives/portfoliosmallschools/HTH/portfolios.html

Its Strengths is that it is attractive, colorful and neat. But its weaknesses are that it has too many words on the same page and hard navigation due to no titles and subtitles

Reflection: i think this was not one of my best works. i was falling behind at this point so i was rushing really quickly to try and catch up. i think i could improve on my work by putting more detail in my explanations.

Digital Portfolio

http://www10.homepage.villanova.edu/deborah.schussler/portfolio_links.htm

http://k12wiki.wikispaces.com/Student+Data+Storage-+Needs+and+Methods

http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/iPads+in+education

a. Name of the site: http://www10.homepage.villanova.edu/deborah.schussler/portfolio_links.htm

1. What is the content of the site? What are the headings? What subjects and other areas are included.

This website helps people make their own digital portfolio by showing them examples and design resources. The headings are: Sample portfolios, more portfolio examples, design resources, standards and miscellaneous

2. What is about the web design? What is not so good? (Refer to colours, organization of images and text, types of images etc.)

I think the website design is very dull, it’s only black and white, it’s not attractive and everything is just listed with no pictures. The layout needs to improve

3. Make comments about the organization of the portfolio. (Refer to navigation and how items are found)

The items and links are very easy to be found, even though the organization is very dull and plain, it makes it easier to locate the items. Example: the headings are big and easy to be seen

b. Name of the site:

 http://k12wiki.wikispaces.com/Student+Data+Storage-+Needs+and+Methods

1. What is the content of the site? What are the headings? What subjects and other areas are included.

The website contains information about backup and data storage needs and data storage methods.

2. What is about the web design? What is not so good? (Refer to colours, organization of images and text, types of images etc.)

The design is very boring and bad, it’s not attractive, there are very few pictures and it’s just black and white

3. Make comments about the organization of the portfolio. (Refer to navigation and how items are found)

Other than the design, I think it’s organized very well and items are very easy to find

c. Name of the site:

 http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/iPads+in+education

1. What is the content of the site? What are the headings? What subjects and other areas are included.

It contains information about starting to think about using iPads in education

2. What is about the web design? What is not so good? (Refer to colours, organization of images and text, types of images etc.)

It’s normal, the colours are attractive the text is easy to be seen and it has pictures, but it’s not great.

3. Make comments about the organization of the portfolio. (Refer to navigation and how items are found)

The navigation is not very easy but not too hard and it’s very well organized

Reflection: I think i did really well on this task, because i did all i was supposed to do, detailed my work and made it neat and tidy. although i could improve my work by putting even more detail in my answers and justifying my reasons