MHS Art Portfolio's
Advanced Art
Rain barrel
An electronic portfolio, or E-Portfolio, is a purposeful collection of artifacts and reflections published so other people can see your work. These can be as detailed, or general as you want, but should include information of what medium the project was created in and a reflection of the successes and failures you may have encountered while creating that particular piece. It can also include explanations of prior knowledge you may have had, or knowledge you gained by participating in the artistic process.
Example portfolios created by other students

This portfolio uses a tiled image in the background and keeps the main page iopen all the time. Not a lot of bells and whistles but extremely effective.

This example uses some more complex webdesign elements such as rollovers and image maps, but again very clear, concise and straight to the point.
Different Types of Portfolio's

Developmental Portfolios: A teacher who is interested in documenting a student's improvements in writing or mathematics throughout a school year can have the student keep a developmental portfolio containing samples of the student's work along with self-evaluations of specific assignments. Such a portfolio provides specific documentation which can be used for student evaluations and parent conferences.

Proficiency Portfolios: Some schools use portfolios as a means for determining graduation eligibility. Students at this school are required to complete a certain # of portfolios which demonstrate their competence and performance in areas such as science and technology, ethics and social issues, community service, and history (Gold & Lanzoni, 1993).

Showcase Portfolios: A showcase portfolio can document a student's best work accomplished during an entire educational career or over a shorter period of time. It can include the research papers, art work, and science experiments which best represent the student's skills and abilities.

Employment Skills Portfolios: Businesses across the country are increasingly interested in viewing student portfolios in order to evaluate a prospective employee's work readiness skills. Students in the Michigan public schools, for example, are creating employability skills portfolios to demonstrate their skills to prospective employers (Stemmer, Brown, & Smith, 1992).

College Admission Portfolios: Colleges and universities are using showcase portfolios to determine eligibility for admission. By requiring portfolios from prospective students, college or university admissions officers are better able to assess applicants' potential for success at their institutions.
Portfolio Process

1. Decide what the layout of your site will look like. How many pages, what information will be on each page, how will people navigate ?

2. Decide on what you will use for a webdesign program (Dreamweaver, Go Live) and create your splash page first (always saved as index.html). Explore and learn how to use photoshop to prepare images, create backgrounds, naviagtion bars etc. I will be available to help you and provide the resources you need.

3. Create a folder in the hard drive of the computer you are working on named your first and last name (ex.-jasonmiles) and everything that you want displayed in your portfolio (webpages and graphics) must be saved to this folder. If you want you can make a subfolder named:images and keep any images you have in that.

4. Start building your online portfolio!!

5. ** Do not at anytime provide any personal information that will allow you to be identified (Name, address, phone, IM or e-mail address) If you want to have a name on your portfolio maybe create a fictional artist name for your portfolio.

Erin Banfield