Perhaps you are a professional artist, a teacher or a student.  In each case, you will need different types of portfolios to display your work for different purposes and for different audiences .


1.  The Original Working Portfolio

• All 2-D work in original form
• Photos of 3D work
• Sketchbooks
• Journal
• Rough drafts of reflections
• Rubrics and Checklists

2.  Working Digital Portfolio

• Collect the documents in electronic form and store in a single folder in your computers
• Set up sub folders on your desktop for the documents and images.
• Set up electronic folders for each student saved here
• Identify the best way to backup these files  videotape, DVD, Google docs
• Digitize images using scanner or digital camera – if possible have someone else do this work and bring it to you on a DVD

  3.   The Assessment/Reflection Student Portfolio:

• Collect exemplars of “best” (and/or “worst”) work
• Have students write a short reflection on each artifact (I liked [or selected] ___ because… I learned… what I would do differently if I were to do it again)
• Create a table of contents listing each artifact.
• Identify what was learned and how it leads to meeting the goal
• Set future learning goals

4.  The Presentation/Evaluation Portfolio

• Determine the audience.
  
• Set the goals for the portfolio and plans to meet these goals
• Record the portfolio to an appropriate presentation and storage medium: such as a video, DVD or online portfolio in Weebly, Google or iweb
• Present the portfolio in a job interview or a student centered conference, create a link in a Facebook or myspace account.

Evaluate the portfolio's effectiveness in light of its purpose and the assessment