As you may or may not know AP made some big changes to the Portfolio requirements before the pandemic. I went to the AP training and with respect to the lovely instructors, it was not informative.
Their Goal: Make the portfolio more inquiry-based. Make the student focus on an essential question, that culminates in a themed portfolio. They want to focus on the synthesis of materials, revision, research, and experimentation.
With that being said one of the big things they wanted to see was evidence of research and sketches. As a digital art teacher, My students are not usually making large amounts of sketches. So what I have been doing for research and revision is using Canva.
Canva for research:
Students can share their inspiration, state a color palette, show sketches, show past work and demonstrate revisions. it creates a really easy and aesthetically pleasing way of doing research.
This also will work for tradition art classes. Students can upload work in progress inspiration and revision. I found last year that the students that added revision and sketches in a collage format did better on their portfolio by an entire score level.
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