The electronic portfolio is to be an "on-disk web site." What that means is this: you are to put all
of your documents into html format and link them to each other. I should be able to put the disk
in my disk drive, open Netscape or Explorer, and click on the homepage for your portfolio. From
that page, I should be able to access all of your
other documents. The arrangement of the
portfolio should be easy to
figure out; it should mirror the structure of the hard copy portfolio,
but it should contain links that make it possible to skip from a
rough draft to a final draft
rapidly.
You can be creative in constructing this site: perhaps
you should use something like a table of
contents page with active
links to all of the documents; perhaps you could set up the rough
draft
in one frame and the final draft in another frame on a frames
page so that the reader can compare
them easily (an advanced html
project--and not required). The homepage of this electronic
portfolio
should catch the viewer's attention and help the viewer figure out
what kind of site he or
she is looking at and how it is to be used.
If you want to put your picture on that page and a
paragraph
introducing the portfolio, feel free to do so.
Inside there should be a title page and a table of contents with page numbers. The whole thing should be divided into logical subdivisions. One pattern is to divide everything according to kind: Gutenberg assignments in one section, rough drafts in one sections, journal entries in one section, peer critiques in one section, final drafts in one section. An alternative pattern is to divide the portfolio into project sections: project one containing early exercises or drafts, critiques, and the final draft; project two containing all early work and the final product, etc. In any case, all sections are to be divided from each other with tabbed dividers that have the section titles on the tabs.