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Framing Your Portfolio
Framing Your Portfolio
Week 14 At A Glance
Week 14 Video
Overview
Overview
This week, we will focus on framing your portfolio and developing commentary to support your portfolio selections.
By the end of this assignment, you will know or be able to:
create a framework in Google Sites based on your analysis of the rhetorical situation (14.1)
critically assess your portfolio selections (14.2)
strengthen your learning through reflection. (14.3)
Assignment 14.1: Create your portfolio frame
Assignment 14.1: Create your portfolio frame
Topic: Start creating your Google Sites portfolio
Topic: Start creating your Google Sites portfolio
What:
What:
Start planning and creating your portfolio in Google Sites.
Why:
Why:
Google Sites is a good tool to use to create your portfolio for ENGL 102. It’s free, intuitive, and easy to learn. You can add to it as you continue your academic career.
Google Sites provides several templates you can use for this project. Using a template is perfectly fine!
How:
How:
Watch the weekly video
Utilize the list of Google Sites Resources (located at the end of this document)
Your portfolio should include the following:
Google Site named “Project 4 Portfolio [your name]”
Multimodal reflection from Week 13
3-5 writing selections from ENGL 101 & ENGL 102
Commentary about your writing selections
Other information pertinent to your website (your name, email address, class name, etc.)
When:
When:
This assignment is due SUNDAY, Week 14, by 11:59 pm CT.
Assignment 14.2: Create Your Portfolio Frame
Assignment 14.2: Create Your Portfolio Frame
Topic: Develop your Google Sites portfolio
Topic: Develop your Google Sites portfolio
What:
What:
Write a paragraph (3-5 sentences) about each of your portfolio selections.
Why:
Why:
A portfolio gives your reader/viewer information about you.
Want to tell your readers how much your writing has improved or how you are really good at developing an argument? Use your accompanying commentary to explain how you improved or developed your arguments.
Your portfolio showcases your work. While it is great to show the work you created in class, additional insight helps convey your message to your readers/viewers.
How:
How:
Your paragraphs should reflect what you want to accomplish with your portfolio. These paragraphs should explain the significance of your selection.
For example, if you chose your exploratory essay and the goal of your portfolio is to demonstrate how you improved in this class, your commentary might include information about your first draft and a discussion about how and what you improved in your final draft.
When:
When:
Please submit your Google Sites draft by Wednesday of Week 15 (next week); your classmates will need your link for feedback.
You should spend time working on your draft this week. Start early, don’t wait! Wednesday of Week 15 is a hard deadline—you must submit your draft on time!
Assignment 14.3: Write Commentary
Assignment 14.3: Write Commentary
Topic: Assessing your Portfolio selections
Topic: Assessing your Portfolio selections
What:
What:
Write a paragraph (3-5 sentences) about each of your portfolio selections.
Why:
Why:
A portfolio gives your reader/viewer information about you.
Want to tell your readers how much your writing has improved or how you are really good at developing an argument? Use your accompanying commentary to explain how you improved or developed your arguments.
Your portfolio showcases your work. While it is great to show the work you created in class, additional insight helps convey your message to your readers/viewers.
How:
How:
What you write about in your paragraph should reflect what you want to accomplish with your portfolio. These paragraphs should explain what the selection is and its significance to your portfolio.
For example, if you chose your exploratory essay and the goal of your portfolio is to demonstrate how you improved in this class, you might say:
When:
When:
Please submit your Google Sites draft by Wednesday of Week 15 (next week); your classmates will need your link for feedback.
You should spend time working on your draft this week. Start early, don’t wait! Wednesday of Week 15 is a hard deadline—you must submit your draft on time!
Assignment 14.4: Discussion Board
Assignment 14.4: Discussion Board
Topic: Talking about portfolios
Topic: Talking about portfolios
What:
Prompt 1: This week, think about your portfolio and share your thoughts about this project. Here are some questions to consider:
How can a portfolio show how you have grown as a writer, and why is this important (or why isn’t it important)?
How can a portfolio help you in future classes or a career?
What is your biggest challenge in creating a portfolio?
Good writers consider their audience. How does your audience affect your portfolio decisions?
Prompt 2: Consider the multimodal reflection you started last week. How has incorporating multimodal elements changed how you usually write?
Why:
Discussion boards help you practice thinking and writing. Considering these questions can help you develop your portfolio—both how you think about it and how you complete it. Furthermore, considering your classmates' thoughts and ideas can help you grow as a writer.
How:
Write, and post, about the prompts.
Read your classmates’ posts.
Respond to two classmates’ posts.
*Review the Discussion Board Guidelines to locate the Discussion Board as well as specific requirements and general example answers.
In the spirit of multimodal learning, feel free to use multimodal elements in your post. You could compose a video or an audio clip, or include images you feel helps you convey your message.
Conversely, writing your post is perfect, too!
When:
Your initial post is due WEDNESDAY, Week 14, by 11:59 PM CT.
Your two classmate response posts are due SUNDAY, Week 14, by 11:59 pm CT.
Questions?
Questions?
Utilize our discussion thread, “Class Questions,” in the Discussion Board tab to ask me or your classmates questions. If you find yourself stuck on a particular problem you encounter in the class, this is the place to pose your question; however, if your problem is personal, please contact me directly.
Contact me! You can email me at krymer@ualr.edu or access my Google Calendar to schedule a Zoom or phone appointment. Call or text me at 765.918.8105, but please reserve that for emergencies.
Don’t forget that our syllabus contains links to several university resources (success coaches, tutoring, accessibility help) designed to help you succeed.
Also, use the Resources page!
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