Website E-Portfolio Instructions

Website E-Portfolio 

 

Throughout the semester, you will be learning how to compose, design, and advocate. As an ongoing semester project, you will create, design, and maintain a website that will serve as a semester portfolio. A portfolio is used by many disciplines to showcase a student or employee's work. They are common for educators, artists, web developers, advertisers, and so on. Think of this as an opportunity to collect, reflect upon, and showcase your work this semester.

 

All major assignments will be featured in your e-portfolio.  You can add additional links and design it any way you want—with stipulation that all semester’s work be able to be found and accessed on this website.  Keep in mind that this is an academic, professional website. Think carefully about the rhetorical choices you make about the presentation of yourself and your subject of interest.

 

Your homepage will be worth 5% of your grade, and the web portfolio is worth 15% of the grade.

 

Compose: The E-Portfolio will be an ongoing assignment due during finals week. Using Microsoft SharePoint, FrontPage or a compatible product, create a website that represents how you understand and appreciate the topic/subject you have chosen. 

 

Design:  Be absolutely sure to save and collect all the assignments you have completed this semester. The E-Portfolio will consist of completed assignments, i.e. papers, presentations, posters, relevant in-class assignments, etc. You must make any and all corrections to papers, assignments etc. prior to uploading; once receiving graded work that contains suggestions for improvement, the corrections must then be made before the assignment can be uploaded.

 

At minimum, the e-portfolio should contain the following:

•      Homepage

•      Genre analysis

•      Literature review and research report

•      Collaboratory documents

•      Online Opinion Piece

You may post other materials relevant to these projects, and other assignments as desired.

 Design Plan:

 What typeface and colors will you use?  Will you use graphics, pictures, and images?  

• In what order will you arrange your ideas?  
• How you will use logos, pathos, and ethos?  
• How you will produce and test the website and its navigation?
• Where on your website will you post or make your assignments available?   

Product Testing:

You will need to test your website repeatedly with different browsers to see if it works!

Advocate: The E-Portfolio is designed to provide you a forum by which to showcase your accomplishments and breakthroughs throughout the semester so that you may understand how your connection to the community begins in the classroom.   

(Source: http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1312/paper_1.htm )

Advice for Students using Technology

Save early, save often, save in multiple places. Losing material because of computer crashes, disk problems, etc. is never an excuse for late or incomplete assignments.

(Source: http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl1312/syllabus.htm )

Instructor Web Site

This site contains____________ courses.

Here, students can

• view their syllabus, course schedule, project descriptions, and supplemental materials
• contribute to discussions through blogs and forums
• turn in assignments
• keep up to date on the course through an RSS feed
• comment on all content, including assignments

This course site is developed in ___________ and should meet ______ accessibility guidelines. If you have trouble accessing the site, please contact me.

(Source: http://instructors.cwrl.utexas.edu/spinuzzi/ )

Facebook has big potential for teaching and learning

( Source: http://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/2007/06/facebook-vs-blackboard.html )

Checking Facebook out today, I notice that BJ Fogg from Stanford has set up a Facebook group on "Teaching and learning with Facebook." He lists three main advantages of using Facebook:

Compared to other online systems, Facebook's tools for groups are limited. Facebook offers no wiki, no group notifications, no applications you can install on a group page. Despite the current limitations (which we all hope will change soon), Facebook has big potential for teaching and learning. 

Facebook offers three clear advantages over any other solution:

#1. Our students use Facebook and like it 
In most cases our students are already on Facebook. They hang out here. They like it. As teachers we bring our expertise and learning processes into their world. 

#2. The social connections are built in
Facebook maps out students' social connections. This can be used in many ways, such as having students get peer feedback on their work. (The value of Facebook's Social Graph is a big topic, which we'll explore together in the coming weeks.)

#3. New applications launched daily
Facebook is adding applications faster than any other company. It seems that most days someone posts a new app that benefits teaching and learning. Soon we'll have a wealth of options. Most important: All this functionality will be integrated with social connections. (This last idea probably should be point #4.)

( Source: http://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/2007/06/facebook-vs-blackboard.html )

Website E-Portfolio

Website E-Portfolio (ongoing all semester): Students will create, design, and maintain a personal website that will serve as a semester portfolio. All assignments, essays, and writing will be stored and linked. As assignments are completed, they will be uploaded. Students can add additional links and design the E-portfolio any way they want--with the stipulation that all of the semester’s work be accessible through the student's homepage. The student's e-portfolio functions as a comprehensive final examination. (Source: http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl1312/syllabus.htm )

Web Enhanced Class

This course is taught as a web-enhanced class--with regular face-to-face meetings for lecture and discussion, and the rest of the course utilizing Internet. This provides students with permanent access to the syllabus, supplemental reading materials, e-mail, and discussion groups. It is vital that students check and participate in Facebook discussion consistently as it is an integral part of the course. (Source: http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl1312/syllabus.htm )

Rewrite Policy

Rewrite policy: Students will be requested to rewrite assignments that are not of acceptable quality. Requested rewrites are due within 5 calendar days of request. No late or rewrite penalty will be assessed on timely rewrites. Rewrites are an important part of the instructional process, so there is no option to decline a rewrite. Requested rewrites not completed with five days fall to a "zero" (not an "F"). Students are also encouraged to rewrite and improve any work in their E-Portfolio at any time before the next assignment is due.  (Source: http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl1312/syllabus.htm )