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The exam:

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This exam is essentially a two part exam: Part 1- Create an ePortfolio, and Part 2- Document the process.

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For this exam you must have an account on Google Drive and be familiar with many of the tasks for photo documenting your work, file organization, and working with the Google Drive service. These are all tasks we've used in this class to date.

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Portfolio Documentation:

Prepare your Sketchbook-

  1. Prepare five pages in your sketchbook for a sketchbook addition.
  2. Title the pages creatively, "Portfolio Reflection" and add today's month and year.

Image Documentation-

  1. Place the images of your artwork, the ones you uploaded in the Midterm Exam Part 1, into a Google Doc. Resize them so that each one is about 2 inches along its longest side.
  2. Print the google doc one-sided.
  3. Cut the pictures out carefully.
  4. Glue them into your sketchbook on your "Portfolio Reflection" pages so that four images are on one page and so that there is as much space as possible next to the images left blank for writing.

Critical Documentation-

  1. In the space next to each image write clearly and legibly: Artwork Title, Date Completed (Month and year is fine), Media. Make it clear that this is the essential information about the artwork but leave room for additional information.
  2. From your work, select the one that best shows your own technical refinement. In other words, choose the one with the best art technique. In the space next to the essential information, write about what it is in this technical refinement makes it the best example of your portfolio at this time.
  3. "Call out" this one in some way that it is your best example of Technical Refinement. You may frame it, change the color of the back ground, text, or density of the lettering in some way but make this one stand out for Technical Refinement.
  4. From your work, select the one that best shows your own personal creativity. NOTE: This must be a different work of art from the one chosen for Technical Refinement. In other words, choose the one that is the one that you took the greatest risk in creating. In the space next to the essential information, write about what makes this one in your portfolio at this time to exemplify your own personal creativity.
  5. "Call out" this one in some way that it is your best example of Personal Creativity. You may frame it, change the color of the back ground, text, or density of the lettering in some way but make this one stand out for Personal Creativity.
  6. From your work, select the one that best shows your own Conceptual Work, (where the meaning is the most important part). NOTE: This must be a different work of art from the one chosen for Technical Refinement and Personal Creativity. In other words, choose the one that is your most expressive. In the space next to the essential information, write about what makes this one in your portfolio at this time to exemplify your best Conceptual Work.
  7. "Call out" this one in some way that it is your best example of Conceptual Work. You may frame it, change the color of the back ground, text, or density of the lettering in some way but make this one stand out for Conceptual Work.
  8. You now have several remaining images. In the space next to their essential information discuss the following:
    1. Meaning
    2. Inspiration or source
    3. Strengths
    4. Weaknesses
  9. Ensure that your writing is neat, clear, and legible in a photographic image.

Assignment Turn-in-

  1. Using Google Drive or another .PDF Scanner App, create a .PDF of all pages included in this assignment from the Value Key Info to the Value Key Models.
  2. Upload or save your .pdf file in your Google Drive Turn-In folder in the appropriate assignment subfolder if available.
  3. Rename this .pdf as follows:
    • <YourName>_<ProjectName>_<Assignment>.pdf
      • Example- JohnDoe_MidtermExam_PortfolioDocumentation.PDF
      • NOTE- In Google Drive you do not need to add ".PDF" when you rename the file.