GEA – Preserving the Natural World

Eportfolio

Once you have finished all the individual documents and presentations, and completed your review of these, you must put all your work in an eportfolio. This is like a website which you will build to display all of your work. Each page will have a different piece of your work on it and may have links to other files, for example preparatory work, references or acknowledgments. Each page should also contain a link to the Home page, like a real website.

The purpose of an eportfolio is to showcase your work for the project. You need to make it as easy as possible for someone to view all the work you have done.

You will need to prepare some of your files so that they can be opened in a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, even if the viewer does not have the actual piece of software that you used to create the file. For example, you can save a PowerPoint show so that it can be viewed by people who do not have PowerPoint on their computers.

You will also need to make sure that each file you include in your eportfolio is saved as one of the types allowed by the Edexcel specification. These are:

.pdf Adobe’s Portable Document File

.html or .htm Hypertext Markup Language web file

.swf Macromedia Flash file

.ppt PowerPoint file

.gif Graphics Interchange Format (image file format)

.jpg Joint Photographics Expert Group (image file format)

.png Portable Network Graphics (image file format)

.wmv Windows Media Video

.wav Wave file (audio file format)