Digital Portfolios have benn used at High tech High School in California for more than a decade. here's how you can use the free website to promote a student by displaying his or her work online.

1. Presentation
to Guidance
Counselors
Free Website Project
How will a free website
make your job easier?

2. Most counselors
use this...
The universal
college application

3. Advantages of Common App (1)

4. Advantages of Common App (2)

5. Advantages of Common App (3)
Students can
include a link
to an “online
portfolio.”

6. What if…?
...students could
display their best
work?

7. Tony Wagner (Harvard University)
“The most important thing you
could do tomorrow for little to
no money is have every student
establish a digital portfolio, so
that they actually have real
progress they can show.”

8. Ask every student
To establish a
digital portfolio
where they collect
their best work. Students actually have
real progress they can show.
Tony Wagner

9. A guidance counselor in Michigan:
I could see high school
students creating digital
portfolios to display their
work. (C. M. Lindberg).

10. Let’s look at that again...
A guidance counselor in Michigan writes in a blog: I could see high school
students creating digital portfolios throughout high school
and then finishing with a cumulative assessment at the end
of their senior year.
By providing students with a way to showcase work they will
have a clearer vision as a learner, find pride in their work,
and share with possible colleges or employers. (C. M. Lindberg).

11. Digital Portfolios
are not new
Students at High
Tech High create
websites to share
their best work.
Ben Staley organized his work by
year

12. Digital Portfolios can include “everything”
Students at High
Tech High create
websites to share
their best work.
Ben Staley shows some books
that he reviewed

13. Digital Portfolios
can show essays
The documents are
stored on Google
Drive
TinyURL.com/exampleDP

14. Digital Portfolios are
common in California
Here’s a site by Abel
Thon, a student at
High Tech High
Four pages, three projects
and an internship
tiny.cc/AbelSite

15. There are two ways
to create portfolios
TOP DOWN
“Train teachers” High Tech High
BOTTOM UP
“Use Student Advisors”
Abel Thon’s Internship →

16. TOP DOWN
“train the teachers” (1)
High Tech High in San Diego,
Calif., has a culture of using
Digital Portfolios (DPs)
A typical teacher’s portfolio →

17. TOP DOWN
“train the teachers” (1)
The school has a 16-hour course to show
students how to make and maintain a free
website TinyURL.com/HTHlist (get the PDF)

18. BOTTOM UP
“train student advisors” (1)
What if 30 students in a school
are trained to make a Free
Website?
Those “student advisors” can
show other students in the
school how to make a free
website to show their best work.

19. BOTTOM UP
“train student advisors” (2)
30 students can each show 10
other students
Those “student advisors” can
show other students in the
school how to make a free
website to show their best work.

20. The chief advantages of BOTTOM UP
“train student advisors” (3)
30 students can each show 10
other students
- One training session (five
groups of 6 students)
- Follow Up by email and
phone
- Let’s see if 30 early adopters
can influence 300 students

21. The chief advantages of BOTTOM UP
“train student advisors” (4)
- Let’s see if 30 early adopters
can influence 300 students
- Students show each other how
to use social media… why not
ask students to show
each other how to make
a free website?

22. What can guidance counselors do to
support the Free Website Project? (1)
- Ask: “Do you want to
have a free website to
show your best work?”
FreeWebsiteProject.blogspot.com

23. What can guidance counselors do to
support the Free Website Project? (2)
“Here’s a card: Call Steve
and he’ll get you started.”

24. What can guidance counselors do to
support the Free Website Project? (3)
Thank you.
Steve
(954) 646 8246

25. Thank you.
Contact: (954) 646 8246
The Free Website Project
FreeWebsiteProject.blogspot.com