Culminating Performance Task - ePortfolio Website
The ePortfolio Website assignment is an opportunity for you to showcase many of the practical skills that you have learned during the course of the semester, and integrating them in a cohesive manner.
Your site should consist of at least 10 pages, of which should include four main sections:
Additional pages are allowed and may be necessary to appropriately convey content. Any additional pages must meet the general site requirements, that are detailed below:
General requirements for the site include:
DO NOT INCLUDE PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION: Although the site is password protected, our school boards policy on website is that it cannot contain any personal information of the individual, including what school you attend. Please do not include any of this information on your site.
Your site should consist of at least 10 pages, of which should include four main sections:
- Home page - introducing what the visitors is about experience or expect to find in your website.
- Welcome message.
- On this page tell the viewer What is Comm Tech
- Why did you take this course.
- Portfolio page - which can be broken down into sub-pages for each area of study to get the extra required pages.
- Video
- Graphic Design
- Photography
- Animation
- Blog page - (the more blog posts you write, the more pages will be added to your total - see below for further details
- The Designer page - this area is for you.
- Fill it with things that represent who you are, what you like, photos, music, inspirations, or any other elements that would identify who you are as an individual.
- Details of what each page show include are below.
Additional pages are allowed and may be necessary to appropriately convey content. Any additional pages must meet the general site requirements, that are detailed below:
General requirements for the site include:
- Site should exhibit strong design, user‐friendly navigation, clear and consistent layout, with a professional appearance.
- Site should exhibit proper use of background, fonts, and colours. Don’t make it to busy keeping to two font choices is best.
- Site should be free of grammatical/spelling errors.
- Site must include work that you created. Any images borrowed should have a credit of where you found the image.
- Each page must have an appropriate title and contain the necessary content.
- All pages should have appropriate images, graphics, or other media, for a Catholic school environment; best judgement and desecration should be used.
- Each page must have a consistent navigation menu containing functional links to all other main required pages. Navigation should be user friendly allowing the visitor to find what they are looking for without effort.
- All links should be correctly hyperlinked and working. Empty areas and broken links will cost you marks.
DO NOT INCLUDE PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION: Although the site is password protected, our school boards policy on website is that it cannot contain any personal information of the individual, including what school you attend. Please do not include any of this information on your site.
- Do not post your email address
- Do not post your last name, just first name
- Do not post any of your contact information, such as address/phone
- Do not post the name of this school.
Details about each required page are as follows:
Home Page:
Portfolio Page:
Home Page:
- This is your home page, it would introduce what the view is about to experience. You could talk about what you do in Comm Tech and why you took the course.
- The design and content of this page will vary depending on your personal style of expression.
- General requirements above apply for the elements you include.
Portfolio Page:
- These pages provides you with an opportunity to showcase all of the work you have done.
- Extra Pages can be sub-pages leading from the original page. This will create the additional pages that are required.
- to create a sub page, drag the page you would like to appear under the Portfolio Tag. These extra tabs might be graphic design, video, audio, etc. Please see your teacher if you require help in setting this up.
- Work should be appropriately displayed, described, and introduced in a way to make the portfolio appropriate and appealing.
Blog Page:
The Artist:
- This page is an opportunity for you to share with me many of the practical skills that you have learned during the course of the semester, and integrating them in a cohesive manner.
- Tell me what you are working on, what you learned this week, problems you encountered, how you resolved the problems. Check here for some typical questions you can answer back for your blog entries. You don't need to answer all them, just the ones that might apply for the current week.
- You should also keep a back up copy of each post in one Word document and save it as BLOGPOSTS. This way you can always go to your backup if there were issues posting or the Weebly site is not working.
- Please click the Post button at the top so that I can read your posting, if you don't press Post your posting only saves as a draft for you to complete at a later date.
The Artist:
- These pages should contain a summary of things you like. This could be images of movies, TV shows, books, music, food, friends & family, sports, hobbies, or any other element that identifies who you are and what you like.
- A summary at the top of the page should have a brief description of the elements you include and what they are important to you. Note: The format you use for your summary is open. It can be written in point form, numbered list, etc. Each item should have an explanation of why you included it.
- Your presentation should be appealing, user‐friendly, and be appropriate to your purpose; images, graphics, etc.; for a Catholic school environment; best judgement and discretion should be used.
Grading and Evaluation:
Your final score on this project will be based on the overall quality of the individual sections/pages of your Website, your adherence to general guidelines and requirements, and quality of design and creativity.
Since this is part of your CPT, therefore, part of your final evaluation, consistent effort should be evident throughout your site.
The site can be accessed from home and at school. If you are caught up in your term work and have "down time", you should take advantage of this time to work on your site. Limited class time will be given to work on your site, however you have the whole semester to make it something great - don't leave it to the last minute, or it will look last minute and your mark will reflect that. Make good use of any free time you have in class by dedicating it to your ePortfolio.
Your site is due on the Exam day at 8:30 a.m. All editing will be turned off.
See a sample of a past students work here: http://louisa-flo-commtech.weebly.com/
This is your CTP: Keep it Up to Date
Since this is part of your CPT, therefore, part of your final evaluation, consistent effort should be evident throughout your site.
The site can be accessed from home and at school. If you are caught up in your term work and have "down time", you should take advantage of this time to work on your site. Limited class time will be given to work on your site, however you have the whole semester to make it something great - don't leave it to the last minute, or it will look last minute and your mark will reflect that. Make good use of any free time you have in class by dedicating it to your ePortfolio.
Your site is due on the Exam day at 8:30 a.m. All editing will be turned off.
See a sample of a past students work here: http://louisa-flo-commtech.weebly.com/
This is your CTP: Keep it Up to Date
- Your website can be updated from home or any computer with internet access. So there is no excuse for it not being current with what you are doing in class. Weekly actually seems to work better outside of the school. At school, the school board web filters check everything, which can lead to frustrations.
- If you lost your user name and password information, see me, and I can look it up for you or change it to something that you can remember.
- It's up to you to keep it current and maintain your site throughout the semester. This is part of your CPT evaluations.
- Remember to click on the Publish button (blue button on top right side of the edit page) whenever you make changes to your website. If you do not hit publish I won't see the updates when I grade your final website.
- Weekly Blog Posts Week Ending Dates Semester 1 (2018): Sept. 7th, Sept. 14th, Sept. 21st, Sept. 29th