What goes into a Student Portfolio (free website)?

The format of the typical Student Website is expected to have the following recommended categories.

Category	The typical High Tech High student Site	Suggested student site	Comments
List of inspiring quotes	Some sites	yes
Projects	yes	yes
Blog	yes	yes	Reflection about the process of studying and creating
Contact info	Many sites	yes	To discuss:  Is it a good idea to include a phone number?  Perhaps after the student graduates from the school
Videos	Some sites	yes	Links to online items or to YouTube channel
Photos (link to online albums)	Many sites	yes
Volunteer hours		yes
Social media	Some sites	optional
Letters	Some sites	optional	References are a start
Résumé (CV)	Some sites	optional
Digital Library Book reviews	Some sites	optional	Dan Pink calls this list “20 Books that I recommend”
Apps on my phone	no	optional	Show the world what you have selected to guide you.  What tools do you carry with you?
List of Skills		yes	Languages, typing speed, special certificates,
Peak Experiences		optional	What do you see as a special event in your life so far?

How to build a website for every student without spending a dime on an outside consultant

How to build a website for students who want them in 25 minutes or less.

How to maintain that website in five minutes per month.

How to create websites to “show what we know” without paying anyone to make the websites

Some students have time.

Many students don’t want to learn how to make websites.

Some students want to learn how to make free websites.

Most teachers don’t have time for “additional training.”

Many schools don’t have funds to pay for training of the teachers or the students.

Can we create a list of websites

(One-way links to the student websites)

Without training Teachers?

Without paying for the web space?

Can student volunteers help make sites for the students who don’t want to learn how to make a website?

This is the key challenge.  Can the
costs be kept low by requesting
students to volunteer?

How can we set up all of the student
websites on a single GMAIL account
and allow each student to edit their
personal site?

Monitoring:  If the volunteers notice something that reflects poorly on the school, then the link to the student website is turned off (until the offending item is removed)

Conditions:  The administration will have access to the passwords of the link page (the page listing the links to every website)

People with “permission to edit” the links list	ADMIN YES	STUDENT volunteers NO	Outside DP TEAM YES
People with “permission to edit” student websites	Yes	Yes	Yes

Time for training	Students	Teachers	Schools
HTH model Training	1-2 hours of training, 1 hour a month to maintain	2-3 hours of training	$$$
“Free” Volunteer “student advisors” get service hours	25 minutes to start, 10 minutes per month	2 minutes (an email message)	Principal’s time:   Perhaps 20 minutes to 45 minutes Admin: 15 mins to give the DP team permission to contact students

Script
Hi, I’m a volunteer who make websites.  Do you know how to use gmail to make a free website?   

Would you like to show your best work to colleges?

If you want, I can help you get your school work up on a website.  Does any of this sound interesting to you?

Let's get portfolios into schools.

Let's call on student volunteers to lead the way and guide students who don't want to learn how to make websites.