Electronic Portfolio Development Stages

 

Portfolio Development

Electronic Portfolio Development

Multimedia Development decision

Specific software

Tasks

Define purpose & audience

1. Defining the Portfolio Context & Goals

a. Is this a potential job interview CD? Or is this a potential life journal project? What about a college entrance CD? Perhaps you want to show specific skills like music performances.

 Decide
Assess

WORD

Excel

PowerPoint

 

Frontpage or Dreamweaver

Create an outline in WORD

List assets and completion dates in Excel

Create a site flowchart in PPT

 

Basics of a web page

Finalize a consistent design and navigation paths

Collect
Interject

2. The Working Portfolio

Review potential documents, images, video files, written and oral communication samples.

Edit video, graphics files.

 

Create consistent navigation and linking

Edit graphics and photos

Design

 

Plan

 

Convert

 

Animate

 

Create video

Graphics editing software-Fireworks or Photoshop

 

Adobe Professional 6.0

Flash or Dreamweaver

 

i-Movie, MS Produce, In-design or other video editing software

Collect works for the portfolio. Decide about file formats or conversion of files for ease of navigation.

Schedule equipment-scanners, digital camera, digital camcorder.

 

Create an image map with major page names and potential filenames

Select
Reflect
Direct

3. The Reflective Portfolio

A document must be included that reflects the experience of creating the portfolio. Keep notes of your thoughts as you go and record these with dates in a spreadsheet or WORD file.

Compose

 

 

Review

 

Burn to CD

Excel

 

WORD

 

Dreamweaver

CD burner software

Create a document reflecting the process, your goals and expectations of this project, and the value of the final product.What were your thoughts at the beginning and when the project was completed

Inspect
Perfect
Connect

4. The Connected Portfolio

Check copyright issues, that all links work, editing and placement are finished.

Present

Implement
Evaluate

Self-correct

critique

FrontPage or Dreamweaver

Projection devise

CD

Evaluate each page for intended content, make corrections, add hyperlinks and connect all documents

Respect

5. The Presentation Portfolio

Present
Publish

PowerPoint

Internet

Present the final product.

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