The Digital Portfolio: AWE3MI/4MI
Yearbook Portfolio Requirements
By the end of the course, your portfolio should demonstrate that you have learned the ability to do the following:
-to work in a professional and effective manner
-to manage time effectively
-to think creatively
-to organize several tasks in order to complete a project and/or page layout on time and in a professional manner
-to work cooperatively and selflessly to complete assignments on time
-to design a yearbook page layout with minimal errors
-to write a quality copy story that is error free
-to write clear and cohesive captions that are error free
-to take high quality photos
-to use InDesign, Photoshop and other software tools
-to crop photos in an effective manner
-to edit and proof your own work
-to demonstrate leadership and team work skills
The Digital Portfolio: AWE3MI/4MI
Overall Expectations Statement
Portfolio content
Meets Expectations: Portfolio content highlights student’s completed projects and the information is geared toward a specific career goal and audience. The portfolio includes descriptive narratives for each project, highlighting skills relevant to the career area of interest.
Exceeds Expectations: Portfolio highlights student’s completed projects, is well organized, and the information is geared toward a specific career goal and audience. Portfolio includes clear and descriptive narratives for each project, highlighting skills relevant to the career area of interest.
Portfolio design
Meets Expectations: Overall design of portfolio and highlighted projects employs appropriate use of design principles, layout design, image composition, color theory, and typography. Portfolio reflect flowchart elements, includes good usability and accessibility, and consistent design elements. Portfolio showcases student’s technical skills.
Exceeds Expectations: Overall design of portfolio and highlighted projects employs design principles, layout design, image composition, color theory, and typography that allow the portfolio to meet the goal of showcasing student work to potential employers. Portfolio reflect flowchart elements, includes good usability and accessibility, and consistent design elements. Portfolio clearly showcases student’s technical skills.
Learning plan
Meets Expectations: Learning plan identifies the skills and concepts the student is interested in learning.
Exceeds Expectations: Learning plan clearly identifies the skills and concepts tied to the job or higher education program areas the student is interested in pursuing.
The Digital Portfolio: AWE3MI/4MI
Preparation Check List
Understanding / Thorough knowledge of personal management skills.
Knowledge of strengths
Knowledge of weaknesses and strategies for improvement
Understand the relationship between goals and interests/characteristics
Showed understanding of the mature audiences who might review a portfolio
Evidence of knowledge of transferable skills
Thinking/Inquiry / Used critical thinking skills to include relevant information
Used creative thinking skills to present information
Profile shows enough evidence of self-assessment in all categories
Used logic in creating the order of items used
Showed insight in relation to the importance of documents to the present/future
Communication / Communicates information, ideas and experiences with a high degree of clarity
Effective use of technology in creating the portfolio
Cover Page(s)
Dividers and Documents
Incorporated Standardized Bibliographical Information
Application / Excellent Personal Management evident by the professional quality of the whole
Excellent Personal Management shown in the project management