Digital Portfolio - Reasearch.

The three important features of a digital portfolio are:
   1. Spreadsheet;
   2. Database;
   3. Audio recordings
and without  those three simple features the audience that is looking at the portfolio will not have much else to see on the page that you intend to show them.
One advantage of having a digital portfolio is that it can be accessed from several locations worldwide and by many people at the same time.
On the other hand, the disadvantage of having a digital portfolio is the possiblity of  plagiarism due to the fact that the information you have posted online is easier to use because it is already in a digital format.



The name of the first portfolio I will show you is:

Senior Project-Digital portfolio

Barrington High School

Jenna M.

 http://www.richerpicture.com/dp/jenna/index.htm

Jenna's digital portfolio is about her academic performance. She writes about her struggles and weaknesses as a child like how she was not very succesful when it came to her reading and writing skills when she was younger. She also talks about how her teachers influenced her throughout her school years. She covers her experiences as a student (mainly older) and she explains a lot about her field work in Senior Year. The index page is well organized but I find it very plain, she puts eveything she needs to on it though and the link to her introduction is well placed but I think maybe she should have added more pictures. The introduction letter is very boring and she should have tried to make a little more flashy but not so much that it you dont know where to look. Although the fact that she tried to add a little bit of color to the text boxes is quite interesting. If the letter was not so formal I personally would have tried to use different fonts other than Times New Roman and in different colors aswell. I would also have used a different background like black with white font other than a standardized white.

The second example is called:

Digital Portfolio

Collen

Primrose Hill School

Barrington, Rhode Island

http://www.richerpicture.com/dp/colleen/index.html

In this portfolio Collen writes about all her work and classes from Reading and Writing to Math and Social Interaction. In her reading section she includes audio recordings of paragraphs she has read aloud and videos of her reading those paraghraphs. For someone in junior school she has done an amazing job of including information. The recordings she has made are very clear and she is reading out the sentences perfectly. The videos are slighly clear but just a bit shaky. I think that the text is well placed and there is not too much of it but she should probably add more pictures because she only has one or two. The pages themselves are very plain and boring and she should add more color to the background. All of her pages have white backgrounds are white so I am not so interested when it comes to actually looking at them. My comments for this portfolio are for her to add more color to it and make it a lot more lively but not too lively or it would be to exciting and confusing. She should also try and have more pictures in it so that it is not only text on the page. What I think is unique about this portfolio is that she added audio recordings and videos to it which is a definate plus. There is an exceptional amount of links and I found it easy to navigate from one page to another.

The final portfolio I will show you is named:

Digital Portfolio for Professionals

Coventry High School

Denise Calise

http://www.richerpicture.com/dp/denise/start.html

Denise Calise writes about herself on an academic level and I find that her portfolio is very professional. Her portfolio is supposedly an example of what the format of a digital portfolio is ment to be like. I figure that she writes about herself but while at the same time using her digital portfolio as an example to people that wish to make one of there own in the future. Throughout the entire portfolio she has only one picture and she chooses to use words more than images. The organization of the portfolio is excellent but i personally would have more pictures so the viewer/audience does not get bored. I find Denise's portfolio rather plain and boring for a portfolio that is said to be professional. She should add more images, color and livelyness to it. The background is white on every page which makes me want to stop reading it because there is nothing interesting that makes me want to read on. On the other hand the things I find unique about her profile is that she has links that take someone to other websites that have no relation with her own besides the topic. The links on all of her pages are well set because I can  find them with no difficulty and they take you to the appropriate page. I think she has to many links though because once you have clicked a page and you go to another there are multiple other links even when you want to use the previous ones they are no longer there. Getting from one page to the next is very easy though.