Planning

Chosen Digital portfolio design

The design I will choose is the third design because it seems perfect and it really stands out.

Digital Portfolio design 3

Good points:
This website is nice and beautiful. All the text is easily seen and it gives more of a lively feeling

Bad Points:
The text space and area to work with putting in information seems small. It could be bigger though 

Digital Portfolio design 2

Good Points:
Things that are good about this is that it is colorful and bright and nice. It is easy to navigate around and it looks more user friendly

Bad Points:
I was only able to keep text there but it was often highlighted. This might destroy my website look

Digital Portfolio design 1

Good Points:
My design has some creative ideas where it allows you to go to my school website and has details about all my activities and subjects studied saying what do we study.

Bad Points:
A problem with this is that it seems too basic. I could improve this by adding more photos and information instead of short sentences

weebly link: www.deva8dd.weebly.com

Investigation finished.

MYP Areas of Interaction

MYP Areas of Interaction

1. Approaches to Learning:

In approaches to learning , students will be given tools and equipment to help them with their learning. The aim is to make students learn on how to learn. This will help them come up with their own ideas and help them to think in a wider range.

2. Community and Service:

Community and Service enables the students to get involved in their community they are apart of. This involves taking part in events, helping people or even starting an event. This helps the community and makes the student learn how to be more social.

3. Human Ingenuity

Human Ingenuity allows the student to learn about themselves and the evolution of different products and to see the changes that happened. This AOI is focused on life and humanity.

4. Environments
Environments lets students know about the world around us and the world we live in. They will study the importance of the global and local life around us. They will learn the responsibilities of the environment and how we should act towards it to also create awareness.

5. Health and Social Education
This AOI helps us to learn about how we should keep our lives healthy and how to be successful health wise. This helps in health in these categories physical,psychological,sociological,economic,legal.

Software Options for a Digital Portfolio

HTML:

HTML full name Hypertext Markup Language is software to create webpages and to present information that is on a webpage. The purpose of HTML is to read it's documents and put that information in a web page format that is visible.
Examples: http://sheldonbrown.com/web_sample1.html
                http://help.websiteos.com/websiteos/example_of_a_simple_html_page.htm
One of the advantages of HTML is it's consistency as it now is much easier to use and designers will know on how their webpage should be structured. The disadvantage is that main browsers support it whereas if you have another web browser then HTML websites might not work. I would think this is a good option for making a digital portfolio because it supports the developer of the website making everything easy.

FrontPage:

FrontPage is a Microsoft software that is discontinued. It is a web forming software where you can see a split view to enter the codes for the webpage and on the other half view how it looks like so that you can make minor adjustments. This is a discontinued program so there is not much information about it. I wouldn't use this to make my digital portfolio because little do I know about it and it was in use long ago so the program might have a few compatibility issues.

Dreamweaver:
Dreamweaver is another good web designing software. Dreamweaver was originally developed by Macromedia but then later took on with Adobe. This was originally meant to edit and create webpages.
Examples: http://dreamweavermenu.com/images/help/frontpage/d-open-website.jpg
                https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT0CbP0IwyMV9y-uZfLKe6K70P7t-HKSJLkC0-mNheTKIlGrxqi
The advantage of dreamweaver is that it gives you suggestions on coding in case if you don't know some codes. The disadvantage is that only 10% of the functionality is useful. I would use this software because it is convenient for digital portfolios however there is a few things the program has to improve on for it to be perfect.

Wiki:
A wiki is an online webpage that shows information in text format.
Examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_portfolio
                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wikis are made in a way that once a person talks about a subject, other people from outside can edit the information or add some more, this helps so that we get more ideas and knowledge about the subject. The disadvantage is that people can misuse this ability by adding bias information that can also add false information. This could be a good informative digital portfolio but it is just plain text, I plan on making something creative and that others can enjoy.

Digital Portfolios

Digital Portfolios

A wiki is an online webpage that allows you to freely create and edit content on a wiki with any web browser. Wikis is a webpage that allows many people to share their ideas and create an informative webpage that people will mostly find useful. The disadvantages of a wiki are that people can edit information to make them bias or false information. Blog is a short name for weblog. Blogs are made by one person informing others about a topic, blogs can be made private so other people can’t see and world-wide can’t edit the blog, it will be an advantage for world-wide to not edit so that they cannot make it bias. The disadvantage of blogs is that the creator of the blog could be bias or the person might have forgotten some information therefore leaving other people not knowing much about the topic. A blog is more like a personal diary or journal whereas wikis are online articles where many people can share information publically on a particular topic. Digital portfolios are is a way of showcasing different student achievements or basically a student can save their work to a disk, a CD or a web page.

Digital Portfolios are digitized information found in varieties of different forms like in media, photography, blogging, texts, diagrams and illustrations

The main important features of digital portfolios are the accessibility to portfolios, it is very easy to access and it is cheap. The portability of these portfolios is very easy considering the fact that it is digital, this is way easier than hardcopy versions.  Digital portfolios records mainly a student’s progress, teachers could use this to easily see their student’s progress and make and use this to mark or to come up with ways on how the student should improve. An advantage of digital portfolios is that it can be viewed by anyone at any time so this makes it easy to access needed information. The disadvantage is that there is high chance of plagiarism where people claim work from others as theirs.

One of a good digital portfolio is this one: http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/

This digital portfolio is designed to be like a game, many people enjoy games so learning information from game like portfolio is cool. This portfolio contains game like animations, a character that you control to learn the information, external sites to click on to learn more information