Showing posts with label guidelines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guidelines. Show all posts
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Guidelines for learners' Carbonmade homepage and template choices.
Written for Visual Arts and Design learners using Carbonmade and their educators.
Carbonmade gives you varied design choices for creating three distinct pages types; a 'homepage', an 'about' page and 'project folder artwork' pages. In designing with Carbonmade's online portfolio template, you will make design choices that are specific to each page and those that apply to all. This post focuses on providing suggestions for the look-and-feel of your homepage, which covers all template choices and those specific to it. These are your 'portfolio title', 'website address', 'artwork thumbnail layout', 'artwork names', 'background color' and 'footer':
What is your portfolio for?
Before making choices, its important to reflect on your reasons for using an online portfolio. Creating a quality portfolio takes a good understanding of what you want to express, how to achieve it and how you would like your audience to interact.
As a learner, here are some important reasons to create yours:
N.B. If you are unsure, take the time to look at the portfolio examples of the creative types (see the left hand side menu) that interest you, and learn from their example. If a portfolio is one you would like to have one day, simply think about what its creator's goals are, then think if they could match your own...
Your online portfolio's title (and web address')
Once you know the reason(s) you are creating an online portfolio, you should have a sound basis for choosing a name and its website address. Your online portfolio title can be based on your; genuine identity (i.e. your real name), your nickname, a pseudonym, a fake name, a corporate identity or your particular interest (i.e. subject, theme or medium). Whatever your choice, make sure it is well-aligned to your online portfolio's aims, unless your aim is to confuse your audience :) ! As a free user of Carbonmade, your website address will be your portfolio's title inserted between http:// and carbonmade.com (i.e. http://amymullen.carbonmade.com).
Background color
Carbonmade offers just two choices for a background colour; either 'black' or 'white'. In making your choice, it is useful to think of the resonance that your colour choice creates. For example, a white background can suggest a sketchpad and is well-suited for portfolios that feature many drawings. A black background suggests a screen or film negatives and is often highly appropriate for mixed-media, photographic or film portfolios.
Homepage thumbnail layout
Carbonmade offers three design choices for the layout of your homepage's artwork folder covers; either one, two or three thumbnails per row.
If you want to create a cinematic effect, then the one thumbnail option works well. It is also well- suited for artworks in landscape format. If you prefer a look that is more similar to a gallery, then the two or three thumbnails option is more appropriate.
Artwork project folder names
Please visit my tips to name your online portfolios for advice on choosing folder names, if your educator hasn't given you specific instructions.
Artwork project folder images
Your artwork folder covers can either be the first artwork that is inside them, or show an image that does not feature in the folder itself. You can choose whether you there's merit in having artwork or designs that are especially chosen as folder covers, or whether your first folder image does the job.
Copyright your online portfolio's content using your footer.
Your Carbonmade online portfolio's 'header' section is at the top of every webpage and features your online portfolio's name and the 'Work' and 'About' buttons. You can also add a footer, which will appear at the bottom of every page. I recommend that you use this space to assert copyright for your website. To do this, insert the copyright symbol © in front of the year your online portfolio was first-published and then list the copyright owner. For example: © 2010 Travis Noakes. It is also a good idea to do the same for each artwork, when you label each newly uploaded one.
I hope this advice proves helpful. Should you need more, kindly review my online portfolio posts. Comments welcome in the box below, thanks.
Carbonmade gives you varied design choices for creating three distinct pages types; a 'homepage', an 'about' page and 'project folder artwork' pages. In designing with Carbonmade's online portfolio template, you will make design choices that are specific to each page and those that apply to all. This post focuses on providing suggestions for the look-and-feel of your homepage, which covers all template choices and those specific to it. These are your 'portfolio title', 'website address', 'artwork thumbnail layout', 'artwork names', 'background color' and 'footer':
What is your portfolio for?
Before making choices, its important to reflect on your reasons for using an online portfolio. Creating a quality portfolio takes a good understanding of what you want to express, how to achieve it and how you would like your audience to interact.
As a learner, here are some important reasons to create yours:
- To impress your adjudicators by exhibiting it as an adjunct to your analog portfolio in your matric exhibition (on a tablet or laptop computer);
- To showcase extra-mural and co-curricular work, the extra-effort in which might otherwise be unnoticed by your educator;
- To help you in your application for further education;
- To showcase your visual creativity and media-savvy to future employers;
- To show your interests in an amateur, visually creative hobby.
N.B. If you are unsure, take the time to look at the portfolio examples of the creative types (see the left hand side menu) that interest you, and learn from their example. If a portfolio is one you would like to have one day, simply think about what its creator's goals are, then think if they could match your own...
Your online portfolio's title (and web address')
Once you know the reason(s) you are creating an online portfolio, you should have a sound basis for choosing a name and its website address. Your online portfolio title can be based on your; genuine identity (i.e. your real name), your nickname, a pseudonym, a fake name, a corporate identity or your particular interest (i.e. subject, theme or medium). Whatever your choice, make sure it is well-aligned to your online portfolio's aims, unless your aim is to confuse your audience :) ! As a free user of Carbonmade, your website address will be your portfolio's title inserted between http:// and carbonmade.com (i.e. http://amymullen.carbonmade.com).
Background color
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| Learner EG's homepage: white background example (May, 2012) |
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| Learner MH's homepage: black background example (May, 2012) |
Homepage thumbnail layout
Carbonmade offers three design choices for the layout of your homepage's artwork folder covers; either one, two or three thumbnails per row.
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| Learner AK's homepage: horizontal thumbnails example (November, 2010) |
Artwork project folder names
Please visit my tips to name your online portfolios for advice on choosing folder names, if your educator hasn't given you specific instructions.
Artwork project folder images
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| Learner KP's homepage: artwork folder example (May, 2012) |
Copyright your online portfolio's content using your footer.
Your Carbonmade online portfolio's 'header' section is at the top of every webpage and features your online portfolio's name and the 'Work' and 'About' buttons. You can also add a footer, which will appear at the bottom of every page. I recommend that you use this space to assert copyright for your website. To do this, insert the copyright symbol © in front of the year your online portfolio was first-published and then list the copyright owner. For example: © 2010 Travis Noakes. It is also a good idea to do the same for each artwork, when you label each newly uploaded one.
I hope this advice proves helpful. Should you need more, kindly review my online portfolio posts. Comments welcome in the box below, thanks.
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Tips to name your online portfolio's folders and artworks.
Written for learners creating or maintaining online portfolios*, and their educators.
Following on from my profile page tips, here are ideas for making the best folder name choices and labeling your artwork well. By following these tips, you can ensure that your portfolio reads like a professional's, since it will provide an appropriate framework and descriptions to your creative works' viewers.
Choosing the best design and naming approach for your artwork projects' folders.
Your homepage can feature up to five folders. Depending on your educator's instructions, you may choose folder titles that match his or her syllabus (for example; "Exploration in Colour", "Extra Mural Artwork", "Inspiration", "Sketchbook/Sourcebook work" and "Structure, Form, Light and Shade") or be given the latitude to mix or replace these folders' titles with your own.
In choosing titles, you must consider how these relate to the page's overall design: you can choose whether to name your folders separately using text. Alternatively, you may place labels within the artworks you chose for your folders. You can even decide not to use folder names if the artwork imagery works better blank!
1. Titling folders with text
The most common approach, in which the folder's titles are specified within Carbonmade and use text below or within the folder.
2. Adding text within the artwork folders' imagery
This option allows you to showcase your design skills by combining text and image in the artwork project folder artwork you select.
3. No text
Where the imagery is self-explanatory, it may be best not to use titles at all...
Project folder names.... darling, names!
If the folder names are up to you, you must ensure that they match the artworks you have (or will shortly) upload and resonate with your profile; particularly your description and choices under "Areas of Expertise" and "Skills".
In choosing a naming convention that is coherent between folders, choose an overarching concept that links them, such as: "subject", "medium" or "theme". Below is an example for each category:
Following on from my profile page tips, here are ideas for making the best folder name choices and labeling your artwork well. By following these tips, you can ensure that your portfolio reads like a professional's, since it will provide an appropriate framework and descriptions to your creative works' viewers.
Choosing the best design and naming approach for your artwork projects' folders.
Your homepage can feature up to five folders. Depending on your educator's instructions, you may choose folder titles that match his or her syllabus (for example; "Exploration in Colour", "Extra Mural Artwork", "Inspiration", "Sketchbook/Sourcebook work" and "Structure, Form, Light and Shade") or be given the latitude to mix or replace these folders' titles with your own.
In choosing titles, you must consider how these relate to the page's overall design: you can choose whether to name your folders separately using text. Alternatively, you may place labels within the artworks you chose for your folders. You can even decide not to use folder names if the artwork imagery works better blank!
1. Titling folders with text
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| Separate text example of Nicole Duennebier's homepage, 1 May, 2012. |
2. Adding text within the artwork folders' imagery
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| Text in artwork project folders example from Josh Powers, 1 May, 2012. |
3. No text
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| No text example of Zoe Kovac's Carbonmade portfolio's homepage, 1 May, 2012. |
Project folder names.... darling, names!
If the folder names are up to you, you must ensure that they match the artworks you have (or will shortly) upload and resonate with your profile; particularly your description and choices under "Areas of Expertise" and "Skills".
In choosing a naming convention that is coherent between folders, choose an overarching concept that links them, such as: "subject", "medium" or "theme". Below is an example for each category:
i. Subject
If you would like to upload illustrations of Cape Town's natural beauty done in different media, you may choose to title your folder; "Cape Town landscapes".
ii. Medium
If you enjoy using a particular medium, for example doing sketches in pencil and ink, you could create the folder; "Sketches in ink and pencil".
iii. Theme
You may have created artworks with different media and subject matter, but can be placed under the same theme, for example: "Beauty".
Titling your artworks
After labeling your artwork project folders and uploading the relevant artwork to them, you should add empirical data below each. You can follow this convention which approximates that used in most serious art history books for stating empirical data; <Artist name>, <artwork title>, <date created>. <media>. <Size in cm>. <Location>. Example: Rembrandt, The Prodigal Son, 1669. Oil on canvas. 265.4 x 208.5 cm. State Hermitage, Lennigrad. For your titles, you obviously leave out the name of the artist and the location. For example: Drawing of a pair of shoes from the: ‘Bags, Baskets and Baggage Project’, 2011. Graphite pencil on paper. 420 x 295 mm.
Using other artist's artworks
As a learner you may want to show your viewers examples of other artists' works that have interested you. If you do, you must avoid the danger of misrepresenting other people's artworks as your own by placing their artwork in separate folders and attributing the work to them in the artwork's title.
If your online portfolio work is going to be assessed and it displays any other artist's works without suitable attribution, it is plagiarism and your marks are likely to be heavily penalized for this. So, create an "Inspiration" folder to feature artworks that inspire you, and label them well!
Highlight your extra-mural interests
If you create works in visual culture that fall outside the ones you do in school, you may want to create an "extra mural" folder to reflect your out-of-class activities (for example: fashion design patterns; stencil or logo designs; celebrity drawings or hobby photography).
Adding a description, project web address, client and/or project category
Carbonmade also affords multiple options to add further background about your artwork. You may consider adding a description to the folder; providing further background on its "subject", "medium" or "theme", for example. You may also add information about the project category. While you are unlikely to have a client or project web address while a learner, it is useful to know these options exist to take full advantage when you do :) !
I hope these tips helped you to think through the options for titling your folder and labeling your art (or artworks of others). Please suggest any other tips in the comments box, below?
N.B. The original version of these guidelines were created by a Visual Arts educator for independent school learners, whose choices I am currently studying. I have supplemented, restructured and rewritten his guidelines for a broad online audience of Visual Arts (and Design) learners and educators.
* Although these are shown using Carbonmade examples, they also apply to similar software.
Titling your artworks
After labeling your artwork project folders and uploading the relevant artwork to them, you should add empirical data below each. You can follow this convention which approximates that used in most serious art history books for stating empirical data; <Artist name>, <artwork title>, <date created>. <media>. <Size in cm>. <Location>. Example: Rembrandt, The Prodigal Son, 1669. Oil on canvas. 265.4 x 208.5 cm. State Hermitage, Lennigrad. For your titles, you obviously leave out the name of the artist and the location. For example: Drawing of a pair of shoes from the: ‘Bags, Baskets and Baggage Project’, 2011. Graphite pencil on paper. 420 x 295 mm.
Using other artist's artworks
As a learner you may want to show your viewers examples of other artists' works that have interested you. If you do, you must avoid the danger of misrepresenting other people's artworks as your own by placing their artwork in separate folders and attributing the work to them in the artwork's title.
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| A learner's attribution example for a Lisa Brice artwork. 1 May, 2012. |
Highlight your extra-mural interests
If you create works in visual culture that fall outside the ones you do in school, you may want to create an "extra mural" folder to reflect your out-of-class activities (for example: fashion design patterns; stencil or logo designs; celebrity drawings or hobby photography).
Adding a description, project web address, client and/or project category
Carbonmade also affords multiple options to add further background about your artwork. You may consider adding a description to the folder; providing further background on its "subject", "medium" or "theme", for example. You may also add information about the project category. While you are unlikely to have a client or project web address while a learner, it is useful to know these options exist to take full advantage when you do :) !
I hope these tips helped you to think through the options for titling your folder and labeling your art (or artworks of others). Please suggest any other tips in the comments box, below?
N.B. The original version of these guidelines were created by a Visual Arts educator for independent school learners, whose choices I am currently studying. I have supplemented, restructured and rewritten his guidelines for a broad online audience of Visual Arts (and Design) learners and educators.
* Although these are shown using Carbonmade examples, they also apply to similar software.
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Online portfolio profile page guidelines for Visual Arts learners
Written for Visual Arts learners about to create online portfolio profiles and for the educators guiding them.
Introducing the structure of guidelines for your online portfolio profile.
You typically enter three types of information into the profile you create for your online portfolio: a brief "(auto)biography", your "contact details" and "abilities". So, although the guidelines below are showcased with Carbonmade, they should still apply to any other service(s) you use. Once you have followed these guidelines, kindly read the assessment criteria at the bottom. Then take the time to reflect on whether your online portfolio meets these criteria and is truly appropriate for its audience(s). It's a good idea to ask your friends for constructive feedback on what you could improve...
Assumptions on which these profile page's guidelines are based.
These guides are based on ones used at an independent school, where learners are taught to develop a showcase electronic learning portfolio (e-portfolio). As such, the guidelines assume that you want to create a profile that reflects your genuine identity. This has many benefits:
Here are four examples for creatives following these types under Carbonmade's featured portfolios:
In writing a creative profile, do your best to stick to discussing your; creative aims, artistic interests and how these relate to your portfolio. Just as Facebook shows your profile primarily to friends, Carbonmade provides yours to those interested primarily in your visual creativity. They are probably not interested in the fact that you play first team, like to party, are a chess whiz, etc. Remember, if your interests are not shown by your art, it's probably of limited interest to them. So, avoid going off topic; only discuss your sporting, musical, political, school or home achievements if relevant to your portfolio's artworks. Also avoid duplication of content; such as your name, which already appears in the page's "portfolio title" and "name".
As a learner, it's particularly important to protect your privacy: avoid putting in your age and information about your school. This information has NO relevance to your audience and could attract the wrong kinds of attention. Rather be general and say that you are a "secondary school learner from Cape Town".
You should update the "about" section of your profile repeatedly as you develop and mature. Read your "about" description aloud. What are the salient points? Does it flow well; with no repetitive or otherwise irrelevant information? Make the effort to rewrite your profile several times; checking that there is correspondence between what you write and what is in your portfolio. For example, if you mention that you are passionate about a particular style of art, artworks in this style must be featured!
2.1 Location: Letting people know that you live in the Western Cape Province, Cape Town (for example) is sufficient. Providing them with anything more is too much information, i.e. Suburb: Nobody needs to know. Street address: Especially you, Mr Stalker!
2.2 Contact details: The same applies with your contact information; if you provide your email address for viewers to get in touch, let your educator and parents know. While email contact may be safer than publishing your mobile and/or home phone numbers, your viewers do not need your contact details upfront, so why make them available for abuse? Rather wait for an email query, whose legitimacy you, your educator and parents should check, before providing phone numbers.
3. Abilities guidelines.
3.1 Available for freelance: While it is tempting to show this button, you need to do a reality check that (a) you produce work good enough to freelance and (b) you have the time to do school work, homework and freelance work? In the unlikely case that you answered "yes" to both questions, go ahead.
3.2 Areas of expertise: List the basic disciplines you are being trained in (or are exploring in extra-mural activities), here. Your school-based areas of expertise may be: "drawing", "painting" & "design". If you do "photography" as an extra-mural activity, list it here. Similarly, if you have done a printing workshop, you could add the discipline ‘printmaking’, too.
4.1 Searchability: Carbonmade features over 470,000 individuals portfolios. If you want to increase the chances of yours being viewed by others, you need to check that your portfolio is easy to search for AND produces an attractive search result that a viewers would want to click. If not, you need to modify your profile's "name", "picture" and "expertise" to improve it:
For example, check out the search result for "Grame Metcalf" below:
First, it's interesting that you cannot search for him by his portfolio title's name ("grabbins" does not produce a result), but only by the real name "Grame Metcalf" he uses under his profile's "name" field.
Although his work has been selected as a Carbonmade featured portfolio, he can still improve its search result's appearance: to do this, he should experiment with a new profile picture which would display better behind the "name", "projects", "images" and "expertise" texts.
4.2 Credibility, integrity and honesty: By ensuring that your profile is thorough and informative, you build credibility with your viewers. Your portfolio's honesty is enhanced by ensuring that the content in your profile page corresponds with what you've uploaded in your project folders. Lastly, by featuring only information that is relevant to your creative work and giving due credit to your influences, you can also simultaneously increase the credibility of your online portfolio and its profile.
I trust that these guidelines proved useful to you? If you have any questions or suggestions for improving them, I'd appreciate you adding them in the comments box below. Thank you.
References
Kirkpatrick, D. (2010). The Facebook Effect: the Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World. Virgin Books, Great Britain.
Allen, B. & Coleman, K. (2011). The creative graduate: Cultivating and assessing creativity with eportfolios. In G. Williams, P. Statham, N. Brown & B. Cleland (Eds.), Changing Demands, Changing Directions. Proceedings ascilite Hobart 2011. (pp.59-69).
Introducing the structure of guidelines for your online portfolio profile.
You typically enter three types of information into the profile you create for your online portfolio: a brief "(auto)biography", your "contact details" and "abilities". So, although the guidelines below are showcased with Carbonmade, they should still apply to any other service(s) you use. Once you have followed these guidelines, kindly read the assessment criteria at the bottom. Then take the time to reflect on whether your online portfolio meets these criteria and is truly appropriate for its audience(s). It's a good idea to ask your friends for constructive feedback on what you could improve...
Assumptions on which these profile page's guidelines are based.
These guides are based on ones used at an independent school, where learners are taught to develop a showcase electronic learning portfolio (e-portfolio). As such, the guidelines assume that you want to create a profile that reflects your genuine identity. This has many benefits:
- It should add credibility that you are willing to identify yourself as your portfolio's creator;
- It makes it easy for viewers to search for you using your real name;
- Your curricular artworks are done in the Fine Arts genre, where artists typically use their real-names;
- Using your real name should encourage you to have a sense of personal ownership and, hopefully, continue using it after you matriculate;
- In "The Facebook Effect", David Kirkpatrick quotes its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, as saying; "Having two identities for yourself if an example of a lack of integrity." By openly acknowledging who you are online and behaving consistently over different web services, you may actively develop not only a more coherent identity online, but off-line as well.
Here are four examples for creatives following these types under Carbonmade's featured portfolios:
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Graeme Metcalf's "grabbins" nickname example (1 April 2012)
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| Cecilia Puglesi's "carbonomonono" portfolio header (1 April 2012) |
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| Agni Interactive's corporate identity logo (1 April 2012) |
The downsides of using a nickname, pseudonym, fake or corporate identity is that it may make your portfolio difficult to search for by friends or others interested in you, personally. It may also be perceived to lack credibility when assessed using criteria commonly used by your Visual or Fine Arts educators. Lastly, it leaves you open to identity theft; unscrupulous learners may use your real name to create a fake profile and portfolio for you!
1. Biographic information guidelines.1.1 Portfolio title: The title of your portfolio is very important; it is not only shown on every page of your portfolio, but is the first thing displayed by search engines and is the bookmark title for other people saving your site. You should consider using your first and last name in the title, as well as a short descriptor for the type of online portfolio you have created. For example; "Severus Snape's E-portfolio" or "Pippa Riddle's School Art".
1.2 Name: While you should use your regular name in the title, you should not use your middle names (i.e. "Severus Malcolm Payne Snape") as the benefits of this are generally outweighed by potential threats to your identity's security (middle names being typically used for official purposes).1.3 About: First decide whether you are writing in the first, or being written about in the third, person (click to see good examples of this). To kickstart your profile, consider adding an appropriate salutation to welcome viewers; for example “Welcome, stranger.” Not quite, but you get my drift...
While it is then tempting to write many, many words, please remember that your audience may be willing to only give you a short time. So, try to stick to 350 words as a rough guideline. It is also a good idea to first write your creative profile in software that spell-checks and gives you a word count. You can then cut-and-paste your text into your "about" section.In writing a creative profile, do your best to stick to discussing your; creative aims, artistic interests and how these relate to your portfolio. Just as Facebook shows your profile primarily to friends, Carbonmade provides yours to those interested primarily in your visual creativity. They are probably not interested in the fact that you play first team, like to party, are a chess whiz, etc. Remember, if your interests are not shown by your art, it's probably of limited interest to them. So, avoid going off topic; only discuss your sporting, musical, political, school or home achievements if relevant to your portfolio's artworks. Also avoid duplication of content; such as your name, which already appears in the page's "portfolio title" and "name".
As a learner, it's particularly important to protect your privacy: avoid putting in your age and information about your school. This information has NO relevance to your audience and could attract the wrong kinds of attention. Rather be general and say that you are a "secondary school learner from Cape Town".
You should update the "about" section of your profile repeatedly as you develop and mature. Read your "about" description aloud. What are the salient points? Does it flow well; with no repetitive or otherwise irrelevant information? Make the effort to rewrite your profile several times; checking that there is correspondence between what you write and what is in your portfolio. For example, if you mention that you are passionate about a particular style of art, artworks in this style must be featured!
1.4 Linking: You may already have other online presences that you want to link from within your "about" description. If so, you can add hyperlinks from their web address text under "about". You must check that each link works well, though. It is inconvenient for your viewers if they don't, whilst making you look seem incompetent.
1.5 Profile picture: Here you need to choose whether your photo is for communication or for "art". If you want to communicate to your audience what you look like, it's probably easiest to upload a self-portrait photo of yourself. If it's for art, take the time to create something that is clever and well-executed. Whatever your choice, it will be displayed under the search results for your portfolio, so encourage your viewers to click further by using quality imagery, not a poor quality short-cut. P.S. Google search "worst profile pictures" for examples of what not to do, or watch "Link's Golden Advice for Single Guys". Girls, it'll help you too!
2. Contact detail guidelines.2.1 Location: Letting people know that you live in the Western Cape Province, Cape Town (for example) is sufficient. Providing them with anything more is too much information, i.e. Suburb: Nobody needs to know. Street address: Especially you, Mr Stalker!
2.2 Contact details: The same applies with your contact information; if you provide your email address for viewers to get in touch, let your educator and parents know. While email contact may be safer than publishing your mobile and/or home phone numbers, your viewers do not need your contact details upfront, so why make them available for abuse? Rather wait for an email query, whose legitimacy you, your educator and parents should check, before providing phone numbers.
3. Abilities guidelines.
3.1 Available for freelance: While it is tempting to show this button, you need to do a reality check that (a) you produce work good enough to freelance and (b) you have the time to do school work, homework and freelance work? In the unlikely case that you answered "yes" to both questions, go ahead.
3.2 Areas of expertise: List the basic disciplines you are being trained in (or are exploring in extra-mural activities), here. Your school-based areas of expertise may be: "drawing", "painting" & "design". If you do "photography" as an extra-mural activity, list it here. Similarly, if you have done a printing workshop, you could add the discipline ‘printmaking’, too.
3.3 Skills: Under the ‘Skills’ heading, list the specific techniques/media/tools you are well-versed in using. This could include specific media/techniques such as "acrylic painting", "drawing in charcoal", etc. As you learn and master new techniques/media/tools, etc, you should add them under skills.
4. Important assessment criteria that your online portfolio's profile should meet.4.1 Searchability: Carbonmade features over 470,000 individuals portfolios. If you want to increase the chances of yours being viewed by others, you need to check that your portfolio is easy to search for AND produces an attractive search result that a viewers would want to click. If not, you need to modify your profile's "name", "picture" and "expertise" to improve it:
For example, check out the search result for "Grame Metcalf" below:
First, it's interesting that you cannot search for him by his portfolio title's name ("grabbins" does not produce a result), but only by the real name "Grame Metcalf" he uses under his profile's "name" field.
Although his work has been selected as a Carbonmade featured portfolio, he can still improve its search result's appearance: to do this, he should experiment with a new profile picture which would display better behind the "name", "projects", "images" and "expertise" texts.
4.2 Credibility, integrity and honesty: By ensuring that your profile is thorough and informative, you build credibility with your viewers. Your portfolio's honesty is enhanced by ensuring that the content in your profile page corresponds with what you've uploaded in your project folders. Lastly, by featuring only information that is relevant to your creative work and giving due credit to your influences, you can also simultaneously increase the credibility of your online portfolio and its profile.
I trust that these guidelines proved useful to you? If you have any questions or suggestions for improving them, I'd appreciate you adding them in the comments box below. Thank you.
References
Kirkpatrick, D. (2010). The Facebook Effect: the Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World. Virgin Books, Great Britain.
Allen, B. & Coleman, K. (2011). The creative graduate: Cultivating and assessing creativity with eportfolios. In G. Williams, P. Statham, N. Brown & B. Cleland (Eds.), Changing Demands, Changing Directions. Proceedings ascilite Hobart 2011. (pp.59-69).
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