Personal Finance Portfolio
Guidelines
Description of Project
You will be using various learning artifacts that you have created in order to archive and share your learning in this class. Your portfolio will be saved and access through Google Drive. It will include evidence of learning (mind maps, worksheets, videos and/or voice recordings) and reflection. Completion of these items will take place immediately following each unit.
Step 1: Set Up
Set up your Portfolio folder in Google Drive (in your assignments folder, therefore it will be shared with Mrs. Carlson)
Step 2: SMART Goal
Locate your SMART goal tracker that you created in Numbers. Import your tracker into Explain Everything and record an explanation of what makes your goal a SMART goal, why you chose the goal, how well you did achieving your goal, and any adjustments you need to make to your goal. Upload to your portfolio folder in Drive. You will be using Explain Everything for many of the following activities.
Step 3: Budgeting
Take a screenshot of the formative budget you created in Numbers. Using Explain Everything provide a narrative explaining the budget and the process you used to adjust the budget so that it balanced. You will annotate your budget as you see fit. Include three things that you personally learned in this unit. Remember to explain what you learned-do not recite a list. You will export your recording to Drive into your portfolio folder.
Step 4: Consumer Protection
In groups, you will choose a topic that deals with consumer rights, consumer responsibilities, fraud and deception. A list will be provided and we will distribute topics in class. It is your group's responsibility to create a book, using Book Creator, to educate your classmates on your topic. The books will be merged together and you will have an activity to complete to check your understanding.
Step 5: Banking
Using Keynote create a 1-3 slide, bullet point summary of the 3-5 things you learned during this unit. This is just a bullet point this that will help guide your reflection. Import the slides into Explain Everything and record a video recording explaining in detail what you learned. This recording is not voice only--it is a video recording of you! Yes, your face and all! :) Export to Drive into your portfolio folder.
Step 6: Credit
Using TouchCast you will create a news cast on the 5 myths of credit or the top 5 credit tips according to.......YOU! Feel free to enlist the help of other students in your class or other students at West. A tutorial of the app with be provided along with additional guidelines for you to follow on the content.
Step 7: Saving/Investing
You will work in a group to develop a campaign that educates the public about saving. The campaign will be expressed through a commercial/newscast, digital poster (many options) or interactive book.