Three important features of a digital portfolio are pictures, text, and videos. If you do not have these three elements in your digital portfolio, then your intended audience will think that your portfolio is extremly boring. One advantage of a digital portfolio is that you can access it anytime, from anywhere. However, that can also be a disadvantage of a digital portfolio because everyone else in the world can access it and intentionally plagerize from it.
One sample I can give is a digital portfolio called 'Creating an Electronic Portfolio'
http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Spencer/webquest/lasindex.html
The content of this digital portfolio is all about how you can create an electronic portfolio easily and what you will need. The blogger that set up this digital portfolio set it up so that it looks like a scientific write-up. I think that this design makes the digital portfolio look boring. The text types chosen are not creative (it is all the same font) even though the author made an attempt to change the font color. There all also little/none images on this website. One advantage of this website is that all the information posted on it is releveant and helpful to what I was looking for. Overall, though, I did not like this digital portfolio very much.
Another sample of a digital portfolio is one called 'Electronic Portfolios: Students, Teachers, and Life Long Learners'
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm
The content of this digital portfolio is about this school educating their own students and staff about what a digital portfolio is and how it can be used. The entire portfolio included hyperlinks with the members websites and links. I think this is
TO BE CONTINUED.
