Student Portfolio Update

In this assignment, you will be updating your Student Portfolio website. If you have not already created a Student Portfolio website, please visit the Student Portfolio page on the school website.

*Be sure to have a folder in Drive for all your documents/material. Anything you want to add to your Portfolio Website, you should Make a Copy of that file and move the copy to your Portfolio folder and proper page folder in Google Drive. Change the Share permission on your main portfolio folder to "On- Anyone with the Link Can View."

It is critical that you keep you portfolio organized and only attach work from your portfolio website folders. If you add work from anywhere else you will run into a number of potentially embarrassing problems.

Step 1: Update Your Profile

• Now that you are in high school, your portfolio should begin to change from a more casual showcase for your schoolwork and interests into a more mature, business-like resumé for potential employers and/ or colleges.
• What is your current profile picture? In the Intermediate School, you were advised not to have an actual picture of yourself; however, now is a good time to put a formal picture (perhaps your yearbook photo) or a picture of you participating in a sport of a club here at OTHS.
• About Me: If you do not currently have an About Me, create a paragraph or two summarizing who you are as a student and as a young adult. You may want to look at what you wrote for your Naviance Journal earlier in Instructional Technology and use some of the information you wrote there.
• Represent yourself how you want others to portray you!

Step 2: Update Your Courses

• Create new course pages for your classes this semester (or school year if you have not updated yet).
• You may also want to re-organize the tabs for your classes.
• For example, you may want to create a tab for "TOIS" and make all your classes from the Intermediate School as sub-pages of that tab.
• You could also organize by subject and have grade levels as sub-pages of each subject.

Step 3: Update Your Work

• If you have not added anything to classes you have completed, do so now. Add copies of work that you are proud of and want to showcase. Be sure to use the Share feature on the entire Google Drive folder in order to make sure "Anyone With the Link Can View." This will ensure that anyone who wants to view your portfolio will have access to view all items contained on the website.
• Work you add can be any type of file: Google Doc, Slides, movies, links to a website you created, etc. Please ask Mr. Arlea if you do not know how to embed your work into your website.
• There should be no blank pages on your website. If you have a page for any individual subject, you should have some work for that subject on your website. You do great things in all of your classes; be sure to show it off on your portfolio page!

Step 4: Update Your Extracurricular Achievements

• If you do not already have a section for extracurriculars, add whatever sports/ clubs/ other activities you are involved in.
• Add pictures, videos, slideshows, etc. of your activity. Be sure to add descriptions of the pictures/ videos so that people viewing your website know the significance of what they are looking at.
• Be sure to list and explain any accomplishments you are proud of or any awards you have achieved participating in the extracurricular sport of club.

Step 5: Update Your Reference

• Be sure to have a reference on your website. This person should be current in your life or able to speak for you based on what you have done in the past year (therefore, update any teacher from the Intermediate School to someone more current).
• Add contact information for that person. If he/she is a teacher, coach, or club adviser in OTHS, add the contact information from high school (email address, OTHS phone number, OTHS address).

Step 6: Update Your Format and Style

• Change anything formatting or style of your website.
• This may include background, banner, font type, etc.
• The choices are yours; however, keep in mind that this is showcasing yourself as a student. Keep it appropriate to that context.

Step 7: Reflect on Two Projects

• Create a text box next to your project slide/paper/picture and answer the following questions:
  • What was the project/ assignment?
  • What did you learn?
  • What would you do differently if you could do it again?

Submission

When you have completed all the requirements, Publish your site and then Add a Link to the Google Classroom post for the assignment (You can get the link from clicking on the Copy published site link button in the top menu bar). Be sure the settings of your website are on Anyone with the Link Can View. We cannot give you credit for your website if we cannot access it! Make sure you have the two projects reflections done for full credit.