Many students find the Website option valuable. Some have even obtained a domain name with their first and last name! Those students want their Portfolio to be a website that they will use to showcase themselves to potential employers and educational institutions during High School and beyond. When students choose to make a website, they understand that information they put in the site could be indexed by internet search engines.

If students don’t want an existing site to continue to be indexed, they should consider the following options:

- Edit and remove any information, images you don’t want there, and publish it again

- Delete the site yourself

- Remove your full, last name from the site

- Contact the service provider asking that the site be deleted.

If students and parents do not want the possibility of their future portfolio in progress being indexed by search engines they have the option to

1) Use a multimedia format that is not a web site

                Talk to a teacher about how you can do that.

2) Use a website, but never type out your full name (Full First and Last name) on any page, or on any of the projects loaded to the site.

3) Use a website, but choose the option to not allow the website to be searchable by search engines, if that option is possible.

4) Be careful not to use your full name as part of the web address like http://JohnDoe.studentwebsite.com

5) While your classroom teacher may have required you to put your address and contact information on a resumé completed for class, this is NOT required information for your portfolio. Rather than loading the document created for class, you may paste the important information about your activities and leadership experience and remove any identifying information. 

IMPORTANT: The E-Portfolio is NOT a “Personal Website” Project, and in no means requires students to create or use a website.

NON Web-based ideas:

• A powerpoint with links to your work on the school network
• Using Microsoft Publisher
• Make a very attractive use of Microsoft Word
• A video documentary about yourself stored on a flash drive.
• Learn how to convert a Word document to a .html page that will only be stored on the school’s private network, and in that file, you would make links to the work you have saved on the network much in the same way that a web page would be created.
  

GENERAL NOTE: When students / parents do not fill out a “decline to have picture taken” form it is possible that typing their name into a search engine will lead a web-surfer to their name on a page on the coventryps.org website if they have been given recognition for an award or activity, and if their picture has been posted on the district web page with their name. Stop by the main office if you have a question or would like to fill out the opt-out form for pictures.

Students and parents should be aware that any images or information a student puts on a website they create should be items they are comfortable with being “public” or the material should not be posted on the web.