The reflective piece serves as an introduction to your portfolio. It is the first thing I will read, so you have a chance to point out your strengths, to make certain that I notice them as I read through your portfolio. Note: This is not to become an argument for a grade. Instead, it is a chance for you to (a) show me the highlights of your work and (b) show me, on a metacognitive level, what you know about what you have done.
At the least, there are several questions you want to address in the reflective piece:
• What are your strengths as a student? What tools have you acquired or improved upon this term? When you look at our rubric, which dimensions do you see as your strongest?
• How does the work in your portfolio demonstrate or exemplify your strengths? How do you see your work as connected with your strengths? How did those opportunities help you develop your strengths?
• What did you learn in doing this work that you found particularly useful? What process(es) did you use in developing the work to its current state? How did you manage all the input from me and your peers? What did you learn about yourself and your strengths as you did that? This is an opportunity for self-evaluation—a self-assessment that, if done well, will surely influence my reading of your work.
• How do your strengths demonstrate that you have achieved the goals of this course (listed on the syllabus)? To what extent has your work also helped to address the Six Goals for the Baccalaureate (https://my.wsu.edu/portal/page?_pageid=303,159461&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL)?
Basically, again, you want to point out the highlights in your work and to demonstrate that you understand how you achieved those strengths. I’d expect these essays to be 2-5 pages in length, but as with any other assignment, a piece of writing should be as long as it needs to be.
The details:
Remember, portfolios must also contain a revised version of your book review; a one-page analysis of your contributions to your expert group product; three of your best blog entries or responses. Further selections are up to you. The portfolio as a whole should demonstrate your achievement of course objectives.
If you want to use one of your essays for the Jr. Writing Portfolio (which you should already have done!), include the cover sheet with the essay. Feel free to include more than one cover sheet. You can only use one essay from this class in your Jr. Portfolio, but you can have me sign off on more than one and make your choice later.
Please do not bother with fancy folders. They just get in my way. If you are handing in a paper portfolio, staple or paper-clip your work together. If your portfolio is on the Web, then send me the URL in an email message, marked “urgent,” and with DTC 375 in the subject line. I will keep portfolios for about a month into next semester, in case you decide to pick it up, but then I will dispose of it.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Thursday's class online
Folks,
Just to remind you, your participation here counts as your blog entry for the readings this week. So spend some time crafting your own response, and browse and respond to others' postings as well. Enjoy!
Shirky focuses mainly on the political and the economic in Here Comes Everybody, looking at the ways people are using social media to change the paradigm of publishing, for example, or to establish or promote a political movement. The link I'm posting here extends a different view of the ways social media might be changing our culture. Taming Spring Break is kind of a funny article, but it's implications could be profound. "Here comes everybody" could be understood in a whole different way when we look at this phenomenon.
What do you think about the ways this article might extend Shirky's analysis? What other examples do you see or have you experienced that either confirm the Times article or contradict it? How are social media changing your assumptions about how you live your life in public? Is that a good thing or not? The field for discussion is wide open--have at it!
Just to remind you, your participation here counts as your blog entry for the readings this week. So spend some time crafting your own response, and browse and respond to others' postings as well. Enjoy!
Shirky focuses mainly on the political and the economic in Here Comes Everybody, looking at the ways people are using social media to change the paradigm of publishing, for example, or to establish or promote a political movement. The link I'm posting here extends a different view of the ways social media might be changing our culture. Taming Spring Break is kind of a funny article, but it's implications could be profound. "Here comes everybody" could be understood in a whole different way when we look at this phenomenon.
What do you think about the ways this article might extend Shirky's analysis? What other examples do you see or have you experienced that either confirm the Times article or contradict it? How are social media changing your assumptions about how you live your life in public? Is that a good thing or not? The field for discussion is wide open--have at it!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Welcome to Language, Text, and Technology
For each day's reading assignment, you will construct a one-page (approximate length) response to that reading. Responses do not have to encompass the entire reading assignment. Instead, pick an issue, develop an insight, or frame a question about the day’s reading and post that as your blog entry. Each week, I will choose 2-4 of your entries to copy into the course blog for general response. You will earn points for each blog entry, each entry selected for the class blog, and responses to entries chosen for the class blog. Points are awarded for all entries that are on time and done in good faith.
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