As with other types of documents, your choice of tools for composing and publishing your portfolio will affect not only how you present your materials but also your understanding of what is possible to present. If you create a print portfolio, you can collect and bind your work, place all your work in a folder, or simply clip it together and share it with a reader. If some of your work turns out to be difficult to include in a print portfolio, as might be the case with note cards or pages in a journal, you might photograph or scan them, print them, and include them with the rest of your work. If you create an e-Portfolio, you have many other options. You can distribute an e-Portfolio as

Each of these tools offers possibilities quite different from what you can accomplish with a print portfolio. Even more important, the possibilities associated with each of these tools — and the experiences each tool can offer your readers — differ strikingly. Some tools will allow you to use video and audio clips, while others will give you more control over the kind of navigation menus and links you can create. Some programs, such as PowerPoint and Keynote, will make it relatively easy to use page transitions and animations or to switch easily from one color scheme to another. Your decisions about the tool you use to create your portfolio should reflect your purpose and an awareness of a particular tool’s capabilities.