I am currently collaborating with one of my visual arts teachers, piloting a project for her seniors to create digital portfolios of their art work. While this small group is our focus this year, we'd like to explore the wider applicability of digital portfolio creation for all of our students (for college admissions, for employment, for tracking of academic growth). 

If students in your high school create digital portfolios, I would appreciate any and all feedback you could provide including the following information:

1. Are all students required to create portfolios or is this a choice they can make?

2. Which technologies do you suggest they use? A website, blog, slideshow that they convert to a pdf file, or something else? (If a website, which do you suggest: Google Sites, Weebly, Wix, Wordpress, other?)

 

3. For those students creating websites, do they typically purchase specialized domain names for their site?

4. What types of information do your students include in their portfolios?  

5. How do you structure their portfolio work? Does it take place within a specific class during the school day? On their own time? Which teacher(s) works individually with the students on layout, what to include, technology issues, etc.?