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___________________ Academic Portfolio Online Student Portfolio E-Portfolio Electronic Portfolio
Web Portfolio
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What is a Student Portfolio and Why Should I Create an Online Portfolio?
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A Student Portfolio documents and highlights a student's educational achievements: academic, club participation, awards, references, curriculum, leadership experience, etc.
You can track skills and accomplishments in an unlimited number of categories and grade levels.
· Exemplary Academic Work: Students describe and upload their best works, which are then accessible through a link in the student's online portfolio.
· Experiental Learning: An online student portfolio provides students with a means to describe and document experiential learning such as apprenticeships, field trips, special projects and employment. Upload and describe photos, job descriptions and completed projects which are then viewable through the online portfolio.
· Electronic Resume: The cover page of a student's portfolio provides a high level summary of a students achievements and an opportunity to make a great first impression. You can provide a personal vision statement, personal philosophy of leadership, academic and life goals, etc.
· Reflections: Students can enter reflections on their learning into their online portfolio. Reflection doubles every learning opportunity and helps develop a deeper understanding of their total learning experience and the interconnections among academics, extracurricular, community service, hobbies, reading, college and career objectives.
· Organization and Planning: Your student portfolio helps students organize academic experiences and accomplishments. Our online student portfolio is organized in four distinct ways.
First, links are provided on every page for user definable achievement categories such as Academics, Community Service, Extracurricular, Athletics, etc.
Second, a students education can simultaneously be organized by grade level (e.g. Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior). Within these grade levels a student may record details about their particular courses and curriculum for that year.
Third, an unlimited number of additional pages can be dynamically added to yourStudentPortfolio so you can highlight any additional information you feel necessary. The additional pages can be entered in via easy to use forms and can accept HTML for extra personalization.
Fourth, we provide a template for maintaining a reading bibliography.
· Marketing: Your student portfolio encourages students to learn to present themselves in a professional manner. College admissions officers and scholarship committees think highly of a well organized and thorough online student portfolio for three main reasons.
First, the multi-dimensional quality of an online student portfolio allows admissions officers and scholarship application committees to easily learn more about your relevant experiences by previewing summaries and clicking on embedded links to see more details about areas that are of specific interest to them.
Second, your online student portfolio will be easily accessible to college decision makers from anywhere in the world.
Third, the fact that you produced a web-based portfolio demonstrates your comfort and competence with computer applications.
You can stand out among the crowd by highlighting your honors, awards, recommendations and documenting your unique experiences and accomplishments.
· Transcripts & Grades: Transcripts and grades may optionally be presented through yourStudentPortfolio. The online student portfolio, however, is not a grade book or transcript program or service.
· Accessible Anywhere: An advantage of the yourStudentPortfolio is that the student can work on it from anywhere, anytime. The student may also give others access to their portfolio through a login / password or leave it open to the public.
· Printables: All of your academic and achievement documents will be neatly organized in online folders ready for you to pick and choose which to print for hardcopy needs (including a printed portfolio, college admissions and scholarship applications). Plus your documents will be secure. We perform regular backups and we provide a tool for you to archive your own documents.
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