All About Me: Digital Portfolio

Grade Focus

Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

Age Level

12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

Subject

Vocational Arts

Technology Integration Activity

PowerPoint Presentations, Video Productions, Webpage Creation

Introduction

The academic digital portfolio is an excellent way to keep an archive of a student’s work and achievements in school. It is important to begin this assignment early in the school year so that the students can keep documents and digitize their work throughout the term or year. The goals of the lesson are to familiarize them with the concept of digital portfolios, to have them discover the common elements of a digital portfolio and to ultimately to create a digital portfolio of their own.

Prerequisite Experience

Experience with Internet research, use of a word processor, digital imaging, video production or web page creation. Students should also have been collecting materials during the year.

Teacher Prep Time

This Continues throughout the year Familiarize yourself with the links in the Explore section. Review the Video Production materials from Nortel LearniT (www.NortelLearniT.org ). Eventually you will need to ensure the availability of equipment and supplies.

Project

The students will assemble all of their materials for the year and produce their digital portfolio as a video or web page. They should include assignments, accomplishments, photos and clips from the year.

Assessment/Grading

A rubric for this activity has been provided, however, throughout the year the teacher can assign marks for collected materials in preparation for the assignment.

Time Management Tips

Students can produce a web page or younger grades might produce a poster.