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Senior Electronic Portfolio Competition

PORTfolio Senior Website Judging Criteria

  1. Layout: Uncluttered, clean professional appearance with easy to recognize features. Text should be easy to read, but not oversized. Graphics should be tasteful and not demand attention. Links should be easily recognizable and work.
    1. Homepage: Graphics, text and layout should portray the "uniqueness" of the individual, without overstatement.
    2. All links and subsequent pages managed and created by the individual should be recognizable as such, sharing clear markers (similar layout, titles, ..) that the navigator is still in the individual's website
  2. Components: The components must include up to date resume and pages specifically relating to majors/minors, campus involvement, community service, externships and internships, writing samples and PORTfolio experiences. Some of these may of course overlap. If possible, all should be have similar layout. Thus websites that do not have resumes or other "text documents" appearing as such, but looking like the other pages will be rated higher. There can be a link to a "personal page," but the contents of this page should not be in any way offensive and should add to the impression the individual is trying to make through her/his page.
  3. Navigability: First of all, all links must work. Secondly, a navigator should be able to move throughout the website using the hypertext links in the pages and not have to use the browser "back" button. From any page, one should be able to return to the individual's homepage and ideally get to any other page in the site.
  4. Copyright issues: Preferably, all graphics and text are the sole creation of the individual. Graphics not created, must be downloaded from sites that allow free and unfettered use of their images. All text should be authored by the individual, excepts excerpts and quotes expressly indicted and correctly attributed. [Note: The VWC Honor Code establishes and maintains an atmosphere of trust, so, unless violations are glaringly apparent, judges should not concern themselves with checking to see if sources are correctly attributed. Students know the guidelines and are expected to adhere to them.