Track and Celebrate Your IB Achievements

It's your Time to Shine with your own WEBSITE ! You are already GREAT many things. Now show the world by creating your own Google Sites IB Portfolio website. Your website will house your MYP IB portfolio allowing you to share your IB Criterion skills and examples with the world just as professional portfolios do. 

What Does An IB Portfolio Contain ?

10 Easy Steps to Create your website Pages

Step by step illustrations at How to Create_and_Publish_an IB Portfolio

1. Go to sites.google.com

2. hit the plus sign to create a site or use a template if you wish

3. Name the site but do use your last name on the portfolio

4. Add to the home page

5. Create a page 

6. name the first one math

7. Repeat 9 more times for all the IB Pages listed above

8. Publish (give it a name if you need to rename it but dont' use your whole last name)

9. Copy the published link

10. Share that in your teacher's Canvas as instructed 

• you must post a working clickable link to the discussion

• Your clickable link must be a google site

Now Add Rubric, Audio visual or text Evidence of your work, and Narrative Reflections to Each Page

Step by steps at How To Add_Text_Images_Video_and_More_to_each Page of your IB Portfolio Website

Dont SKIP step 2  or you will be adding text to the footnote of each page! 

1. Open your site

2. Click the pencil arrow in the bottom right if you dont see it already

3. Click over to the pages menu by clicking the word Pages at right (under the blue "publish button)

4. You will see a list of all the pages you created in your site.

5. click the title of the page you wish to add content to. 

6. the page will open up at left BUT

7. In order to add things to it  you must  move from Pages to Insert. Do that by clicking the word "insert" menu top right  (under the publish button )

8. You will see 4 options. Texgt box Images, embed or Drive. Click Drive if it is  from drive. Otherwise Click Embed <> or images

9. Select the item from your Drive or Paste your embed code or upload your image

10. Insert additional text and graphics as desired from the insert page. Notice you have content blocks you can click

11. Insert a text box with your narrative reflection on that evidence

    1. What did you do and why

    2. What does it mean to you

    3. How do you do it   

    4. what did you learn was  it worth it?

    5. what you would do differently last time?

12. Go to the Next page and repeat steps 1-11 until you have added a rubric, evidence and narrative reflection to  all 10 pages

Optional Enhancements 

 Add to your Best work and refelctions on your growth with the following enhancmenets to create your brand and enhance the experience.

Here are some ideas

Creat an Avatar - use any photo, or design one in any avatar creator tool or Canva Edu. then Upload your avatar image

Create images on Canva

Create Subpages 

How to create a subpage

13. go to sites.google.com and open the Help Desk Portfolio website you made.

14. Click "pages"

15. Click the Snowman next the page you want

16. .select Add a Subpage

17. Title that page the name of the lesson you just completed and create the page

Tips

• Copy from sites you love. How to do they look?

• The best way to learn is by playing around on Sites and learning from each other and mentor sites they love!

• ublish privately or publicly. If work you are sharing is not work you are proud of you can embed it as a private document so only you and your teacher can view it. Once you grow your skills you can post new and improved work!

• Do not post your last name

• Spend time understading what each rubric rquires of you see this fun game to understand I and S https://quizizz.com/join?gc=72807148 

Why Bother Keeping a  Portfolio Website?

It's your Time to Shine  ! You are already GREAT many things. Now show the world by creating your own Google Sites IB Portfolio website. Your website will house your MYP IB portfolio allowing you to share your IB Criterion skills and examples with the world just as professional portfolios do.

Benefits you You Now

• You can visually see where in the IB standards you are shining and where you should step it up!

• You curate your brand 

  •  choose colors, fonts and designs that express your personality and goals  BUT dont stray from the template organization so we can easily score your work on  the pages and subpages we need.

Benefits Future you:

Besides using it for your IB grade, The site is good for you now and as you prepare to get hired and get into college

• You have a positive digital footprint where you control the message

• This helps you get a  job or enter your career training*

*Real world- As you enter high school you will have a full portfolio of great work leading to your IB diploma. Even if you dont continue ot the DP program, you can use this to get a job or get into college. Before you graduate you can take it with you! See leaving CMS for more on how to  make a copy of it so it doesn't disappear and move it to their Personal Google Drive account to keep. It is also a good visual to them of which documents they wish to save because 13 years of google docs can be overwhelming to try to save for posterity

CMS IB Portfolio Template https://sites.google.com/cms.k12.nc.us/ibportfolio/home