Your Final Showcase E-Portfolio

1. Review The Portfolio Itself, especially Option 1: Showcase Electronic Portfolio with Classroom Notebook.

2. Review the Electronic Presentation Rubric.  Always keep these criteria in mind as you build your Showcase E-Portfolio.

3. Your final portfolio should include each of the following but may contain more (note that I'm keeping this simple; so should you):

  • a simple to use table of contents that explains what is on your disk
  • your final updated student vitae for freshman year
  • your updated reading and writing logs
  • any two favorite and/or best works from the year
  • anything else you want!

4. You will turn in your Showcase E-Portfolio, so be sure to make a copy for yourself.

5. There is an in-depth help page for building a powerpoint version if you like: Click HERE.

Reminders

1. Download graphics, sounds, whatever you need as desired. Keep checking your power point for size - remember, a floppy disk can only hold 1.44 megs. If your slides/whole presentation is getting near the limit, save the one you have as is on a disk and start a new one. Later we can put these together in one folder on a hard drive or CD and link them together. Do this as often as you need to.

2. Build your links as needed. (Remember, webbing your work is much more fun for the viewer and allows you to express special relationships between your works.) I think the best way to do this is to create your text or graphic for you link, then right click on it. From there, click action settings and tell it what you want it to do on a mouse click. This works for virtually anything in power point!

3. If you are maintaining an online e-portfolio, you should still build one of these unless you know for sure your English site will still be running next year. Be absolutely sure on this because you will be expected to have this next year .

4. I highly recommend simply putting your longer written work into your power point as a link to the .doc file.  Just make sure your .doc file is included with the power point files and your link will open the writing! This eliminates many difficulties you may run into with easy of reading, copying & pasting, and slide formatting.