Launch
Students will explore what makes a digital art portfolio easy to understand, practice choosing artwork that shows growth and personal style, and begin using audience-centered thinking to explain how their website should help viewers navigate and learn from their art.
Days 1 - 2
🖥️ Pop-Up Museum Model Walk
Launch 45m
🖼️ Include Maybe Not Yet Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
Research & Plan
Students will interview classmates and adults, observe how viewers make sense of art websites, and turn that evidence into a simple design brief for a portfolio website that highlights growth, effort, and personal style.
Days 3 - 8
🎯 Viewer Needs Notice Chart
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🎤 Portfolio Interview Practice Cards
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🧑‍💻 Media Specialist User Interviews
Community Experience 45m
🗂️ Empathy Map Theme Sort
Research 50m
📝 Design Brief Draft
Deliverable 45m
✅ Partner Showcase Brief Checkpoint
Assessment 45m
Ideate & Prototype
Students will turn research from earlier interviews and observations into clear website ideas, sketch several different portfolio directions, test a low-fidelity prototype with real users, and revise their organization and captions based on evidence from feedback.
Days 9 - 13
🧠 How Might We Portfolio Maps
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
✏️ Three Portfolio Layout Sketches
Project Work 45m
🗣️ Two-Peer Critique Carousel
Deliverable 45m
🖼️ Paper Portfolio Prototype Build
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
👥 Media Coach User Test
Community Experience 45m
Refine & Present
Students will refine their portfolio websites by improving navigation, selection evidence, and artist statements; test the site with peers and a school technology coach or district media specialist; document Iteration 2 changes from feedback; and prepare a concise stakeholder-facing walkthrough of their design journey.
Days 14 - 18
🧭 Navigation Fixes Mini Studio
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
🖥️ Website Build and Caption Revise
Project Work 45m
🤝 Partner Showcase Feedback Round
Deliverable 45m
🎤 Media Specialist User Test
Community Experience 45m
📱 Portfolio Walkthrough Checkpoint
Assessment 45m
Showcase
Students will present their finished digital art portfolio websites to authentic viewers, explain how their choices show growth, effort, and personal style, gather final audience feedback, and reflect with a partner on how their curation and organization decisions answered the project question.
Days 19 - 20
🖥️ Pop-Up Museum of Pixels
Community Experience 45m
✅ Portfolio Walkthrough Conference
Assessment 45m