Steps for creating your E-portfolio

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1 Steps for creating your E-portfolio STEP 1: Create a folder in My Documents called Your Last Name Portfolio. To do this, open My Documents, right click in any blank space, then go to New, then Folder. If your last name is John Smith, the folder will be called Smith Portfolio. STEP 2: Inside this folder, make another folder called Files. Follow the same steps as above. STEP 3: Inside the Files folder, create two Microsoft Word documents. Name one Resume and one Autobiography. To do this, while you are in the Files folder, right click in any white space, go to New, and then Microsoft Word Document. You are not doing anything else to the Resume and the Autobiography right now. Just leave them blank for now and you will add to them at a later date.

2 STEP 4: Now open PowerPoint, and create a new slide show. Call this YourLastNamePORTFOLIO and save it in the PORTFOLIO folder you made in step one. If you are John Smith, this is SmithPORTFOLIO. TIME OUT! Right now, you should have the following things: A PowerPoint called YourLastNamePORTFOLIO saved in a folder called YourLastName Portfolio. Two Word documents, one called Resume and one called Autobiography, both saved in a folder called Files, which is in your Portfolio folder Now you are all set up and ready to begin your portfolio in PowerPoint. Your portfolio will have SIX slides. The first slide is STEP 5: Your INTRODUCTION slide. This should list your first and last name and your years in high school. You should also add the title Electronic Portfolio Presentation on this slide. STEP 6: Next is your GOALS slide. You can list your goals or you can write them in a paragraph. Your goals may include what you plan to do after high school, clubs you plan to be in, or sports you are in or plan to join.

3 STEP 7: Create an INDEX slide. This slide will include links to: PHILOSOPHY RESUME AUTOBIOGRAPHY EDUCATION SAMPLES OF MY WORK Don t worry about creating the hyperlinks right now. First we are going to create all the slides and then we can go back and link them. STEP 8: Create a PHILOSOPHY slide. This slide should list your philosophy on life or an educational philosophy which states why education is important, what education means to you, and how education will help you in your future. YOU WILL ALSO NEED TO ADD A BUTTON BACK TO THE INDEX ON THIS SLIDE. Don t worry about this now, but you will need to do it later. STEP 9: Create an EDUCATION slide. This slide should list the schools you have attended and the years in which you were enrolled. It may also include where you plan to go to college. This slide will also include a button back to the index. Don t worry about it yet! STEP 10: Create a slide titled Samples of my work. This slide will eventually contain links to: PowerPoint examples Excel examples Word examples This slide will also contain a button back to the index. VERY IMPORTANT: When you start linking examples of your work, you will need to include a reflection for each work sample. This should state the course for which the file was created, the time it took to create the file, a brief description of why the file has been included in your portfolio, and an explanation as to why this file demonstrates achievement. Now you are ready to add your hyperlinks and buttons. Flip the page to see how to do this!

4 TO CREATE YOUR HYPERLINKS: Type the word, phrase, or sentence you want to link. Highlight the text. Right click on the text. Select Hyperlink. IF YOU ARE LINKING TO ANOTHER SLIDE IN YOUR PORTFOLIO: Select Place in this document and then select the slide you are linking to. Do this for PHILOSOPHY, EDUCTION, AND SAMPLES OF MY WORK. Turn to the next page to see how to hyperlink to another file.

5 IF YOU ARE LINKING TO ANOTHER FILE (like the Resume, Autobiography, and your work samples): Select Existing File or Web Page and then go into the Files folder (in your Portfolio folder). Do this for the resume and the autobiography. When you are ready to link to your work samples, you will need to select whatever folder you have those saved in. Flip to the back of this page to see how to create your buttons back to the index.

6 TO CREATE YOUR BUTTONS BACK TO THE INDEX (on your PHILOSOPHY, EDUCATION, and SAMPLES OF MY WORK slides): Click on the Insert tab at the top of your screen. Then go to Shapes, and then go all the way to the bottom where you see action buttons. Choose the button you want to use (I recommend the plain square or the one that looks like a house). Click the spot where you would like the button to be, and drag the mouse to make it the size you want it to be. A box will appear on your screen. Choose hyperlink to and then slide (you will have to scroll down a little). Now pick the Index slide and then click OK. You can click inside your button now and type the word Index. Your button should look something like this when you are done: You re almost done! Now you can play with the design of your presentation. Decide on a design, color, and font that you like. You can add images or animations as well. This portfolio should demonstrate your creativity but don t go too crazy! It should still look professional. Throughout the year, you should add your best work samples to this portfolio. You should add something from each of your classes and you should add different types of work. Make sure you have examples from Word and PowerPoint, and if you do anything in Excel or any other program, add that too. Make sure to correctly hyperlink from the Samples of my Work slide and DON T FORGET to add your reflections!