Self-paced slides to help individual students

Digital Portfolio Video Tutorials

Schoolwide Rubric to Guide You

1. Pick a platform.

• A website
  • We recommend Google Sites - here's a sheet to get you started
  • Pick a theme that you like so that the design is ready-made

2. Add Content to your portfolio.

• Biography - help writing it
• Pictures of you and things you love
  • Use your own appropriate photos of you and your passions (family, pets, activities, universities, sports teams, etc.)
  • How to get them off your phone and on your portfolio?
  • Attribute any photos you don't own 
• Artifacts and reflections
  • High quality examples of work especially related to what you want to study
  • Different types of artifacts (files, pictures, videos, embedded documents, links, etc.)
  • Be sure you have the appropriate share settings on each document, video, etc. See this video for help!
  • Written or recorded reflections about each artifact
    • how to write reflections
    • Reflection Template
• A Resume - how to create a resume 
  • Template 1
  • Template 2
  • Template 3
  • Template 4 (CDC version)
  • * NOTE: You should have a print and digital version.  The digital version should ONLY have your email as contact (no phone or address!!!!)

3.  Make it look good and keep it organized.

• Organizational Tips
  • Digital locker in Google Drive
  • Home page as About Me page with short Bio and pics that tell someone quickly who you are
  • Create pages for things that are important to you (About me, subjects you love or are related to your study, your activities, volunteer or community work)
  • Arrange your pages into categories by creating sub-pages 
  • Add links to your social media accounts IF they are appropriate for college/employers to see