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Introduction

A digital portfolio is a way of presenting a set of electronic documents for a specific purpose. In your case, to showcase your achievements in your BTEC First in I&CT course. Your portfolio's design is an opportunity to demonstrate your technical. and creative abilities. A strong design tells potential employers immediately that you are a candidate worth taking notice of.

 

Portfolios are important tools that can provide opportunities for employment as they present your skills and abilities.
Complete the Activity sheet, Lesson1 - Portfolio review.

 

Defining your Project

 

A large part of your BTEC First in Information and Creative Technology course requires the creation different types of evidence for your qualification to be awarded (e.g. a website or digital graphics) and systems (e.g. a computer network).
All projects have a number of common characteristics, including:

• a purpose (e.g. to create/develop a product or system)
• a unique start and endpoint in time
• a scope (a set of activities that need to be undertaken to achieve the purpose)
• a limited set of resources (time, people and budget).

Your digital portfolio will also have a set of features and functions. You need to establish what these are early on in the planning stages will help you to define your project.

 

1. Design (e.g. storyboard, structure chart, assets, software)
2. Create/test (e.g. develop the portfolio and test all elements to ensure they work)
3. Review (e.g. evaluate the result and check that it meets the original requirements)

 

 

 

1. Design. The design stage includes flashing out the idea, creating storyboards and structure charts, deciding on images and graphics, and choosing the type of software required.
2. Create/test. The create/test stage involves creating and developing the product and all the elements associated with it. lt also involves testing your product to ensure that all the elements work. If you are launching a new website, you would need to check that all the links work and that all the graphics and pages are displaying properly.
3. Review. Once you have created your portfolio, you will need to evaluate it and check whether it meets the original requirements and audience's needs.

at any stage of the lifecycle stages, you can make changes. However, once you have finished a stage , you should not make further changes. Instead, if you identify any things you would like to change, then create a record of what you would do differently.

 

 

Digital portfolio structure

 

Structure refers to how you construct your portfolio. The structure of a digital portfolio hangs on the type of portfolio of which you wish to create. The structure of your portfolio will be different from portfolios used by business to inform people about its products.
When looking at the structure of your portfolio, you should consider using different structures:

1. A unit-based approach. This approach involves presenting information on a unit-by-unit basis.
2. A product-based approach. This approach involves gathering together information from across different units and presenting it on a product basis.

Create an introduction to the unit, you need to include the following;
1. What your brief is, (WHO YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE IS/ARE? WHY ARE YOU DOING IT)
2. What your requirements (WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN ASKED TO DO, INCLUDING THE DETAIL, E.G CREATE 8 WEBPAGES. )

Create a storyboard of your home page with as much detail as you can. Consider that someone else is going to produce the page for you based on your design, so give as much direction to your idea as possible.

 

Last Updated
2019-09-13 14:06:14

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LO A Design a digital portfolio

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