Electronic Portfolio: Students bring together the research activities and process, resources and evaluation of resources, presentations and evaluations of own and others to have something to take away from the class to use in other classes down the line in their college careers. (Students should be encouraged to continue adding to this after class ends...over what amount of time will this one-credit course be taught? The conception right now is that it will be a semester-based course, but that's tbd, partly by whoever instructs it --Chris)

  1. Create a dynamic presentation (WordPress) with documented tools and methods used throughout this course (with evaluative notes)
  2. Include each artifact/project created in the course
  3. Continually evolving annotated bibliography of resources (with brainstorming of which classes/projects they might be useful in the future)
  4. Student collaboration included as evaluation of other students' research/presentation (what worked and what didn't...how you might do it differently)
Assessment: (If this is an ongoing project throughout the course the rubric could be the outcomes and the degree to which each was demonstrated in the portfolio)
  • Process: Organization and time management
  • Tools: At least X number of tools explained and evaluated (based on personal use or classmates' experience)
  • Content: All X number of artifacts included (is this possible?) and suitably introduced, described, and evaluated
  • References: At least X number of accurate, useful, relevant, thorough, current, high quality annotated sources

Katie - I see where we could work together here. Your collection of resources might play a bibliography role in my project?

Jodi - great idea! I was having trouble seeing where this would fit in to a 1-credit introductory course

Katie -- I think this could work with the IF course as well... as a primary part, in fact because: if the arc of the course is research and presentation, then where/how do they create their presentations? Could be in many different tools, but a "portfolio" could be asked of all students and used to share their research process (Chris Beks' Piece]], their initial research comparison (Jodi's piece) and their final presentation (Eve's piece).

* could this be marketed as a paired course with a content course?


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