Final Portfolio

Digital Scrapbooking - or - Resume In Pictures

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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards

  • 1. Empowered Learner -- Students leverage technology to an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goal, informed by the learning sciences.
  • 1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
  • 1b. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose and use/troubleshoot current technologies.
  • 1c. Student are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
  • 2. Digital Citizen -- Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that safe, legal and ethical.
  • 2a. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
  • 2b. Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of copyright and sharing intellectual property.
  • 3. Knowledge Constructor -- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
  • Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
  • 4. Innovative Designer -- Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
  • 4a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving problems.
  • 4b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
  • 4c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
  • 5. Creative Communicator -- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
  • 5a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
  • 5b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
    • *All standards listed above are from the SRR Industrial Technology Standards document based on the ISTE standards.
    A portfolio can be used to showcase your work to prospective employers. A scrapbook is a collection of memories with descriptive text and embellishments to add flair, style and interest to each page. Our digital portfolios/scrapbooks will showcase the work we did during the trimester and push your skills with photoshop.

    Students are to collect their photos and project files from this trimester and arrange them into a digital scrapbook/portfolio. The option of printing and binding their portfolio is available (for a $10 fee) if the student chooses.

    A digital scrapbooking tutorial can be found here: Cottage Arts Tutorial.

    A gallery of sample scrapbooking/portfolio pages can be found here.

    Resources like backgrounds and embellishments can be downloaded from google drive here.

    Student portfolios must include the following projects:
  • Potato head and gondola can be put on one page.
  • Photo Collage/Poster
  • COBed photo
  • Food Photo
  • Black and White with a Pop
  • Shutter Speed and Aperture can be put on one page
  • 2Fashion photos
  • 2Portrait photos
  • Name Photo
  • At least 2 Nature Photos
  • Mystery Close up Photo
  • 3 more excellent photos taken by the student


    • Each page will be a 10 inch wide by 8 inch tall document in Photoshop. Remember that each page needs to be the same horizontal orientation in the book.

    Download a cover template here.
    Each page must include the following (See image with descriptions at bottom of this page):
  • A background for your page.
  • Photo Mattes for all photos.
  • Title with assignment name on one of the pages.
  • At least 1 text block per 2 page spread.
  • At least 1 embellishment per page.
  • Drop shadow(s) used on at least one element.
  • Students are encouraged to use different fonts for a creative effect. (Instructions on how to download and install fonts can be found here).




    • Evaluation:
    4 points -- Includes all required project pages
    6 points -- Includes decorative elements listed in green section above
    6 points -- Well designed pages
    4 points -- Saved and turned in as PDF. (See instructions here.)
    20 points total




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