1.  Free online digital portfolio

You will be working on many projects this year.  It’s a good idea to have a place to keep your best work.  You never know- someone might hire you to work on a website!

Everyone is going to sign up for www.carbonmade.com today.  Before you do that I will show you what it looks like.

The free version of carbonmade.com allows only for five projects and no videos.  You can always link to your videos if they’re somewhere else, like YouTube.

You will likely have five good projects from the class this year that you will want to show off! If you have more than that then you can look at other alternatives to display your work.

To get started:

Click sign up at www.carbonmade.com

Create an account using your real name (This is good for search engine reasons.  The more positive things you have associated with your name online, the better, as they will show up in Google and other online searches).

Add a new project

You will add screen shots of your work and a description

To take a screenshot:
– Open up your web file or webpage
– Adjust it so it’s exactly how you want it to look
– Hit the “PrintScrn” button on your keyboard. The button basically takes a picture of whatever is on your screen.
– You will likely want to crop and edit the photo. To do this you will need to use some kind of photo editing program such as Microsoft Photo Editor, Photoshop, Picasa Web Albums, or an online application to help you do this. A suggestion: Picnik (free photo editing).
– Repeat this several times as necessary to get a few different photos of your best work.

Finally, click add to browse for your image and add it to your project

Last steps- choose a layout to display your work and add a description (what it is, a link if the site is live, name, etc.)

Important- since your work is not yet live online you can just write “in development.”

This is just practice. You don’t have to keep this project in your online portfolio. As you do other work in class this year you can add that and delete stuff in your portfolio you no longer want displayed.