What does the Common Application for colleges look like? Where can a student enter the link to his website and Digital Portfolio?

 I wanted to see what teenagers look at when they are asked to complete the Common Application to apply to colleges.  What does the page look like where students can submit a link to their digital portfolio?  Where do High Tech High students enter their website's address?

Here is the "additional information" that I submitted

I want you to know about a remarkable person who left behind a free ebook when he died.  I met him in 2009 and I spent time with him over the following 7 years.  He died in 2017.  Before he died, I interviewed him and asked him to comment on quotations that I found about education.  His commentaries form a free ebook that anyone can download.   TinyURL.com/FischlerEbook.  You can get his training posters at TINYURL.com/FischlerPosters.  I hope you will look at the website TinyURL.com/CPPPSite and TINYURL.com/SunABE. 

I believe in helping other students create fabulous digital portfolios like the ones that students make at High Tech High school.  You can learn more at
TinyURL.com/LarryHTH and
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TinyURL.com/FreeforFamily1   Thank you for reading this far.  

Clearly the Common Application offers students ample space to provide a list of websites, links to folders and additional essays and blogs and links to YouTube videos.  I had heard that there was only a single link that could be added, but this page in the Application allows a student to write an additional essay... and provide links to a digital portfolio.

This is what the Common Application offered in 2016:
a single line for any "online materials"
The updated form allows up to 650 words ... ample for giving
a list of website addresses.

The option to provide a link to a student's portfolio is there. 

TEACHERS
Work with your colleagues to create opportunities for your students to work on ONE BIG PROJECT.  (that's what students get to do in Finland.  Search "end of subjects finland schools bbc")  One project gets credit for grades in several subjects... and that project can be displayed with pride in each student's digital portfolio (free website)

Could subjects soon be a thing of the past in Finland? - BBC News

www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39889523

May 29, 2017 - Finland has long been renowned for the quality of its education and always scores highly in international league tables. Now it is rethinking how it teaches in the digital age - seeking to place skills, as much as subjects, at the heart of what it does. But not everyone is happy, and there are fears it could bring ...

Why Finland is changing its top-ranking education system - BBC News

www.bbc.com/.../education.../why-finland-is-changing-its-top-ranking-education-syst...

Finland is rethinking how it teaches in the digital age - and is seeking to place skills, as much assubjects, at the heart of what it does.

School COUNSELORS
Download the free ebook and learn how the digital portfolio process has helped students get full scholarships.  TINYURL.com/sundp5

PARENTS
How often do you get a chance to see what your child is facing?  Yes, the teenager is a remarkably complex and mysterious creature.  And secretive (many of them).  At least now you can see a portion of what they will face and you can push your kid to at least put some videos on a free website... Google gives everyone 15 gigabytes of free real estate in the land of the Internet.   Why not put two or three photos up and write about "why more people should see this photo"?

STUDENTS
You want to stand out, right?   Learn about free websites and put your best stuff forward.  You are unique.  Show us what you have done and what you plan to do with what you have learned.  Get some ideas from Ben Staley and Abel Thon, students at High Tech High Schools.

Click here to see Abel's site

DIRECTORS OF SCHOOLS
Imagine if the world (taxpayers, future students and future parents of future students who are deciding whether or not to enroll in your school) could see the work of your students.   Imagine if others could judge your school by the work of your current students (and past students if they leave behind a digital portfolio).   "Judge our school by what our students accomplish after they leave us" is how Abraham S. Fischler described this process.  (Fischler stated this idea when asked to provide evidence about why his university's innovative approach to providing instruction could work.... His university rented space in a hotel once a month and brought a professor to the city where the 20 or 25 principals could meet to work one weekend per month for three years to earn a doctorate in education leadership.  It was the first distance education model that included face to face instruction.  Hear more about it at tinyURL.com/HistoryofNova)



Students are more than their transcript.   Let them show what they can do with what they have learned (Tony Wagner's point).



The single most important thing you could do tomorrow for little to no money is have every student establish a digital portfolio where they collect their best work as evidence of their skills. Where they’re working with their teachers and other adults to present their best work, to iterate their best work, so that they actually have real progress they can show. 

Tony Wagner
Search:  tony wagner pathbrite every student needs digital portfolio

If you want to see the rest of the Common Application, some screenshots are shown below.

Are you ready to create your own free website?   CLICK HERE 
TINYuRL.com/FWPstart