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Portfolio (updated 6/7/2019)
Purpose
As an online space, your course website makes your work for this class visible to online audiences worldwide. Revising your course website into a carefully-designed portfolio that both explains and showcases what you've learned in this class takes advantage of this visibility to create context that explains the significance and value of the work it contains. Doing this allows you to manage your image online and creates a polished online presence you can include in future applications, link to other online professional materials, and/or continue to expand and modify as you produce more academic and professional materials.
Components
1. Add an "about" page to course site (OR add about content to landing page, if template facilitates this). About page should:
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Introduce you in terms of your academic background, professional goals, and relevant experience
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Describe what kind of work is included in the portfolio and what it showcases about your writing, research, and digital design skills (drawing on your learning goals set at the beginning of ENGL 109 and your check ins from throughout the quarter)
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Connect the work your portfolio showcases to your academic & professional goals
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Optional to include:
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Links to LinkedIn, professional social media accounts, and/or other sites showcasing your work
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Link to resume/CV
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Photo of you
2. Update site navigation to include working navigation links between landing page, about page, & each project page
3. Review & update website design across all pages
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Review landing page & all project pages to remove any old content from template not being used
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Change page <title> to your name (or similar) to replace template page title with something relevant to your portfolio
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Change content of page footer to reflect other title/format changes, leaving any "crediting" content that acknowledges the site template you began with (abiding by licensing requirements)
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Optional:
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Replace/add favicon for visual branding in tab and/or page (recommended tool: https://favicon.io/, although many similar free tools exist)
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Update imagery of site template (banner images, etc) using stock/creative commons images from Flickr, Pexels, etc
Resources
Criteria
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"About" page introduces you, connects your professional/academic interests & experience
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Revises page navigation to link back & forth between landing page, about page, & 3 project pages
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Edits & cleans up portfolio (title, text & image content, footer, etc) to brand it as your own professional website & remove any unused/inappropriate remnants of original template
Timeline
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Friday, June 7: Portfolio introduced & time in class to work
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Wednesday, June 12: Portfolio due by 1:30 pm to Camino dropbox
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Learning Goals (from 4/1/2019)
Purpose
English 109 is a theoretical and practical class designed to provide critical thinking, research, and digital composing skills you can apply both in other classes and in your professional, civic, and personal life. Therefore, being able to "transfer" your learning (apply and adapt it to other contexts) is paramount.
Research also shows that metacognition--thinking about thinking about what you're learning and why, setting your own learning agenda, evaluating how your flearning process is going, etc--increases the amount you learn and improves your ability to transfer your learning to new contexts. This is especially important in a class like English 109 with numerous learning objectives related to digital culture/design, writing/research, and science/technology & society.
Learning Goals Setting Components
- Consider
- the reasons why you enrolled in this class, the relevant skills/experiences you hoped it would provide
- the course description and learning goals in the Syllabus
- the assignments listed in the Syllabus
- Use these ideas to generate 3-5 specific learning goals you'll work toward throughout this quarter. We'll "check in" on your progress toward these goals, offering opportunities for you to reflect on how well your approach is working, get feedback on your progress, and make adjustments.
- For each learning goal, make some plans about how you'll approach course work and assignments (see Syllabus for overview of course design and assignments) to work toward these goals.
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