What are the nuts and bolts, ins and outs of e-portfolios?
Using Google Sites as the development platform for presentation e-portfolios.
Should my portfolio be public or private? How do I decide? First, know your audience. Who is going to be viewing your portfolio: an instructor, an admissions counselor for graduate school, a future employer? Knowing who your audience will be is the first step in your decision process. Once you know your audience, think about… Continue reading Privacy settings for your portfolio
When showcasing your work in a discipline that requires extensive use of images, consider using Table or Layout in your Google Site. Using these features can enhance the look of your portfolio’s pages. You will still want to use the basic feature of inserting an image where you place the cursor on your page, but… Continue reading Ideas for working with images
By default all your pages in a Google site’s navigation will be sorted and arranged alphabetically. This can be problematic if you need a specific order. To have manual control over the ordering of your site’s pages, follow these simple instructions. Go to More -> Manage site -> Site layout and click the edit link… Continue reading Reordering your Google site’s pages
Several students have asked how to embed a Portable Document Format (pdf) in their presentation portfolio. The pdf could be your resume or some other artifact you want to share. It is important to make sure you understand what is meant by the term “embed.” When you “embed” an object, you display its content as… Continue reading Embed a pdf in my Google site.
Google sites provides two options when you create a new site: Design everything page by page. Select a template as a basic starting point for the entire site. When you use a template, you create a site with a predefined structure: custom page layouts, links for navigating to each page, theme, and more. Some templates… Continue reading Should I use a template when creating a Google site for my portfolio?