Reflection I am very happy with my final piece. I think i have accurately displayed the skills I have learned while using Photoshop in the image below. It took some time and hard work but it was all worth it. At first it was a bit difficult to use, but now I am much for familiar and confident with the software. I can now edit and create new images using other images. I have really enjoyed this topic.
Description I cut out cars from different images and pasted them on a background I chose from the internet. As you can see I edited some picture using a tool in Photoshop. I chose to display the cars like this because i wanted it to seem like you were sitting in a car and looking at a whole different world outside.
My collage is going to about cars. I got the idea cars from my brother who is madly in love with the newest lamborghini and muscle cars. In my collage I will over lap the ten different pictures, in such a way that they will look creative and unique. I will also apply some of the effects that we have learned in the past lessons. I look forward to creating this collage.
I have planned my Digital Portfolio so that each page has a link to another page.
Pages of my Digital Portfolio:
Home page: My home page with include a picure of me, title "My Digital Portfolio",my name, and a summary/intorduction of out my Porfolio is about. I have not decided yet but i think i might add a link from the home page to a letter of introduction.
Acedemic information: This page will have a link from the Home page. The Acedemic Information page will have links to several other pages related to Acedemics such as assignments and projects i do at school.The Acedemic Information page will also have a brief summary of what subjects and activities I do at school. The Acedemic Information page will have a link to my Performance Levels (Grades).
English/Humanities/Technology/Science projects and assignments: theses pages will include all the projects I have done in those subjects. These pages will also include amy grades and rubrics.
Personal Information: This page will include links to pages that are related to my Pesonal Information like my family, my interests, My school Life. I will also include a short summary about the link.
All pages that have links from my Personal Information page will include details about the subject.
HTML is a Hyper Text Markup Language. It use markup tags to describe web pages.
I think it is a good way to edit a web page because its the only language the browser knows. though they are still some disadvantages in using HTML, because it use ode which is hard and understand and difficult to write. It also takes a while to be familiar with the actual markup languages. HTML also uses many tags that have to be memorized in order to write it.
Both Front page and Dreamweaver are both WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) HTML editors. i think Dreamweaver is a good editor because it hides the HTML codes behind the real text, which allows non-coders to create web pages. I think Dreamweaver would be a suitable editor for me when i do create my digital portfolio. A disadvantage is that in order to make HTML pages, whose HTML code is larger than an optimally hand-coded page would be, can cause web browsers to perform poorly.
Wiki is a website that uses a markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor with in the browser. I think wiki is a good editor because it uses simpler code than the original HTML code. So it won't be as hard to memorize the code as the HTML original code. I wouldn't use A wiki editor for my digital portfolio because any Internet user can change the text.
A digital portfolio also known as an e-portfolio is a collection of artifacts and evidence put together by a user of the web. A digital portfolio is just like a traditional portfolio just in digital format. Digital portfolios are proof of one’s ability. E-Portfolios can also be used for self-expression.
Student sharing portfolios allow teachers and parents to view and share a student’s performances and accomplish.
E-portfolios include multimedia, blogs, hyperlinks and much more. If the portfolio is online it can be changed regularly over time.
Advantages of a Digital Portfolio
-Digital portfolios are easily accessible on the web; therefore they open to a wider audience.
-Digital portfolios have more formats than a traditional portfolio. Students can express their knowledge and skills in different ways.
-Digital Portfolios teach students many more technology skills.
-A Digital Portfolio is a good tool for storing and examining a student’s performance over time.
Disadvantages of a Digital Portfolio
-Since a digital portfolios are in a digital format is easy for someone to plagiarize ones work.
Sarah D's digital portfolio is about her time as an intern at the Eagles Outlet, Barrington school. It shows her hard work, efforts and tasks she has accomplished throughout the year for her work study internship. She shares her skills and the letter of recommendation. Sarah clearly reflects on the year as she served as an intern at the Eagle outlet.
Sarah shares her accomplishments by adding her resume. In her resume she mentions her strengths and tasks she has accomplished through the time she has been at the Barrington. Sarah also shares her letters of recommendation.
The layout of her portfolio is quite good it is orderly organized from her resume down to her Reflection. I like her portfolio though I’m not so fond of the colors she used for her portfolio. I don't like the colors because they are too bright of her portfolio. She should have picked a more of a simple and suitable color for her portfolio.
Comments: Her portfolio is very organized and detailed. It has suitable information. It is easy to get from one page to another.
2. BRIANNA'S PORTFOLIO
This portfolio is about Brianna's projects at her school, Barrington. She shares one of her projects called "If your community was a textbook, what would it teach you?” She also has many rubrics in her portfolio of various subjects. Brianna's portfolio demonstrates the work I have done towards reaching a Certificate of Initial Mastery.
Brianna includes a page about her. She also the subjects she did at Barrington such as the arts, foreign languages and mathematics.
Brianna's portfolio is some what interesting, though I didn’t it like the design. It was quite dull and looked plain. Though I did like her front page, it was classic and simple. She had a hyperlink to her resume which I found great.
It was quite hard navigating from one page to another in Brianna's digital portfolio. She had many links, which was not a good thing. I enjoyed reading her digital portfolio, it was informative. Brianna's portfolio looked incomplete, probably because she was still the middle of her project.
3. JENNA'S PORTFOLIO
This portfolio is about Jenna's senior school project. She includes her field work and her research paper on the project. Jenna also includes diary entries through her project. Jenna's project topic was on outdoor recreation. She takes about the whole process she went through while gathering her data.
Headings:
Letter of Introduction
Getting Started
Field work
Research paper
Portfolio: Design and Presentation
Self Evaluation
Form Checklist
Jenna includes a page introducing herself and her experiences. She also includes entries from her journal at the beginning of every page.
I absolutely enjoyed going through Jenna's portfolio. It was very organized; it was hard to get lost. Every link had a title that was clear so, it was easy for the viewer to navigate to each page. Her color coordination was great it was classic and not to colorful. She chose a suitable color for her text.
Comments: On the whole I think Jenna's portfolio was great. What I liked about Jenna's portfolio is that she had a letter of introduction. So, straight away I knew what her portfolio was all about.
