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newportfoliosite

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Projects: New Portfolio Site 

 

Your Portfolio will be a website, separate from your blog, where you will be publishing your best stories and revising them based on feedback from me and from other students. For this assignment, you will set up your Portfolio site and add the first story. When you are done, you will have a Portfolio homepage and one story page. You will also create a Comment Wall post at your blog; that is where people will leave comments for you about your Portfolio stories. 

 

PART ONE: CHOOSING A WEBSITE PLATFORM. Just like with the blog, the choice of which platform you use is up to you. I will provide detailed technical support for using Google Sites, but there are lots of possible options; here is some information about that: Web Publishing Options. Google Sites is the platform for which I provide detailed instructions for all aspects of the projects. So, if you are not sure which platform to choose, I would strongly urge you to give Google Sites a try! The features of Google Sites suit the Portfolio project in a very easy and intuitive way.

 

Then, when you have made your web publishing platform choice, you can create your website! Here are the Google Sites instructions for starting a new website, step by step:

Google Sites: Create new site

(If you are using another publishing platform, use the instructions that they provide for starting a new site and creating the site homepage.)

 

When you are done creating your site, you should have a site homepage, which displays the title of your project. You should also have an image on the page (a banner image or some other image), along with image information crediting the image source.

 

 

PART TWO. STORY PAGE. After you create your site, you are ready to add your first Story. Now you can add a new page to your site where you will publish the story. Here are the Google Sites instructions; if you are using another publishing platform, use the instructions that they provide for adding pages:

Google Sites: Add new Page.

 

Copy from blog post to Story Page. Next, go back to your regular class blog and look through the stories you have written for class so far. Pick your favorite, and copy it over to the Story page you just created at your Portfolio website.

 

  • Copy TEXT from the EDIT view in Blogger. When you copy a blog post, you want to copy just the contents of the post, not the formatting. So, when you copy your blog post, make sure you open your Blogger story post as if you were going to edit it, and then copy the contents that appear in the editing window: Select-All (Control-A), then Copy (Control-C). A copy from the Edit window should remove any unwanted formatting while keeping the links you created.

 

  • About images. You may or may not want to use the same image(s) that you used in your blog post; it really depends on the platform you are using and what image options are available. If you are using Google Sites, I have some notes here about the Google Sites image options.

 

Edit the Story Page. Now that you have the story copied at your Portfolio website, read through your story and see if there are any changes you want to make. You may even need to make some changes to fit the requirements for a Portfolio story.

 

Length. If your story was super-short, you may need to make it longer (500 words minimum). You should also double-check to make sure your story is not too long (1000 words is the max; here are some notes about short-and-sweet writing strategies).

 

Author's Note. If your author's note was super-short, you may need to make it longer (200 words minimum; here are some tips about the author's note).

 

Citations. You'll want to double-check your image information and also your bibliography.

 

Proofread and Spellcheck. You will have many readers visiting your Portfolio over the course of the semester, so it is especially important to proofread by reading out loud and also to do a spellcheck. If your web publishing platform doesn't have a spellchecker, make sure you turn on spellcheck your browser; here are some spellcheck suggestions.

 

Publish. After you have edited and proofread the page, you can publish it! Now your website will have two pages: the homepage and the story page.

 

Check navigation. After you publish the Story page, check to make sure it appears in the navigation on the homepage of your Project site. If you are using Google Sites, this will happen automatically. In addition to the default navigation, there are other navigation options in Google Sites:

Google Sites: Homepage and Navigation

 

Update your class blog post. Go to your class blog post where you originally published the story and add a note at the top with a link to your Portfolio; that way people will know that the current version of the story is at your Portfolio. You can leave your original story at the blog or you can delete the story; either way is fine — just make sure you have a note in the original blog post telling people that the story is now part of your separate Portfolio website. The idea is that you want people to read the current version of the story at your Project site; you don't want people to be reading the old version at your class blog.

 

 

PART THREE: YOUR COMMENT WALL. This is the final part of the assignment! Later in the semester, you will be getting detailed feedback from other students about your Portfolio, and they will leave those comments for you at your blog. To get ready for that, you need to create a Comment Wall blog post at your blog. To get a sense of how that works, here is the Comment Wall post at my blog from last semester (yes, I participate in one of the classes as a student every semester; last semester I was in Myth-Folklore).

 

Here is how to create your Comment Wall post:

  • create a new post, and give it the title: Comment Wall
  • for the post label, use: Comment Wall
  • include some kind of image in the post, plus image information
  • include a link from the blog post to your Portfolio site; that is how visitors to your blog will be able to find their way to your project if they are curious to see what you are working on

 

Then, go back to your Portfolio site and edit your homepage, creating a link from the homepage to the Comment Wall; that is how visitors who arrive at your Portfolio will be able to find their way to your blog to leave comments. Make sure you publish the homepage and check the link so that you can see it is working.

 

 

When that all looks good to go, you can turn in the assignment!

 

FILL IN THE FORM and DO THE DECLARATION. To let me know the assignment is done, fill out the form below. Then, after you have submitted the form, you can do the Gradebook Declaration for the Project assignment in Canvas. I will send you back comments on your assignment by email.

 

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