The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with a chance to reflect upon what you have learned, to critically analyze your work, and to practice the selection of and presentation of your work to an audience.
You will submit
your portfolio electronically, using the Catalyst CollectIt tool. I use
electronic portfolios for several reasons:
Note:
It is very important that you follow these step-by-step instructions.
These instructions
work!
Important: All artifacts
(documents that you upload into your portfolio) must be Microsoft Word
documents (not Microsoft Works or Wordperfect). If you use a
Macintosh computer,
you must add the suffix .doc to the names of all attached artifacts
described below.
Midquarter
Portfolio
The guidelines for what to include are listed below. I
strongly recommend downloading the learning portfolio items from the Catalyst
CollectIt tool (see "Submitting the portfolio," below) so you can see what you
will need to respond to. That will give you time to think about and draft
responses.
Submitting the portfolio: When you are ready to submit your portfolio, log onto the Portfolio tool at https://catalysttools.washington.edu/collectit/dropbox/davidgs/1575. You will need your UW Net ID to log on.
That should bring you to the main menu.
You do not need to click on the instructions, because that
link will just take you to this page.
First, click on the "Notification" link at the top of the page. Enter your full name and any valid e-mail address, and click on the "Save" button.
Then, one by one, you will add content to your electronic portfolio. Refer to the specific instructions below for each item.
A1: Scene Analysis. (See http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/BIS347Scene.html for instructions on writing this paper.) Name your Microsoft Word file " Lastname347Scene," using your last name in place of Lastname and omitting the quotation marks and using no spaces, like this:
Mahone347Scene
Please be sure to capitalize as shown in the example.
To submit this artifact, click on the "A1: Scene Analysis" phrase from the main portfolio menu. Then use the "Browse" button and locate the file on your computer and select it. That should take you back to the main portfolio menu.
A2: Contribution Self-Assessment. In a Microsoft Word document with a standard academic heading (see T20 in "Tips for Better Prose" ), write two substantial paragraphs that explain:
(a) which of the participant profiles described in the course's contribution document at < http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/Partic.html> best fits you so far, and why you think so, matching specific elements of the descriptions to your own observations about your contributions so far ; and
(b) which of the small group roles, described in that same document, you have already tried.
Name your Microsoft Word file " Lastname347SelfAssess," using your last name in place of Lastname and omitting the quotation marks and using no spaces, like this:
Mahone347SelfAssess
Please be sure to capitalize exactly as shown in the example.
To submit your contribution self-assessment, click on "A2: Contribution Self-Assessment" phrase from the main portfolio menu. Click on the "Browse" button and locate the file on your computer and select it.
Those two elements complete your midquarter portfolio.
It does not matter when you submit items into your portfolio as long as all of the required elements are in the portfolio by the deadline.
Confirming your portfolio submission:
To confirm that your midquarter portfolio has been properly submitted, click on the individual element links again. You should see a document attached on each page. I recommend opening each of the artifacts to make sure they are what you expected.
Your midquarter learning portfolio is due online at 3:15 p.m.sharp on Monday, Feb. 4 . There is no grace period for the midquarter portfolio .
About seven days after you submit your midquarter portfolio, I will return your portfolio (follow the same link as the one you used to get to the Portfolio before), with my comments. I will not comment on midquarter portfolios submitted after the deadline, so please do not bother to submit a late midquarter portfolio. I will deduct ten percentage points from the score of final portfolios that did not have a corresponding midquarter portfolio submitted.
If you activated e-mail notification as instructed above, you theoretically will receive an e-mail message when your portfolio is ready for you to pick up although it seems that students do not always receive this message for some reason. (I think the messages might go to some junk mail folders because they are misidentified as spam.) I will read, comment on, and return midquarter portfolios in the order in which I receive them, so the earlier you submit your midquarter portfolio, the more time you will have for revisions.
If you want assistance, the best people to ask are the computer lab consultants (who are trained in the Catalyst tools), or me, or both. The librarians in the Campus Library often can be very helpful, but they have not been specifically trained to help with Catalyst tools, so the computer lab consultants are a better bet. Click on this link for more information about the UWB Computing Helpdesk: http://www.uwb.edu/infosys/helpdesk.html .
As a formal piece of university writing, your reflective essay should be typed and double-spaced throughout, using a standard font (like Times New Roman) in 12-point size, and with margins of one inch all the way around each page. By "formal," I mean that I expect carefully considered and carefully written work, which should be formally formatted, including double spacing. This probably requires some writing and revision before you can produce a high-quality, final product to include in the portfolio. First-person ("I") statements are fine. Please re-read "Tips for Better Prose" at http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/Prose.html after getting your main ideas down on paper but before submitting your final version of your reflective essay. Provide a meaningful but brief title for your paper (not "Reflective Essay" but rather a short hint of your paper's main point or thrust) and a standard academic heading (as described in T20 in "Tips for Better Prose").
Just before you submit your reflective paper online, do a final word count (in the Tools pull-down menu of Microsoft Word) to make sure you meet the 600- to 1000-word parameters. You do not need to type the number of words; I will be able to do my own word count of your paper.
Name your Microsoft Word file " Lastname347Reflect," using your last name in place of Lastname and omitting the quotation marks and using no spaces, like this:
Mahone347Reflect
Please be sure to capitalize exactly as shown in the example.
Submitting the portfolio:When you are ready to submit your portfolio, log onto the Portfolio tool at https://catalysttools.washington.edu/collectit/dropbox/davidgs/1575 . You will need your UW Net ID to log on.
That should bring you to the main menu.
You do not need to click on the instructions, because that
link will just take you to this page.
B1: Final Scene Analysis. (Seehttp://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/BIS347Scene.html for instructions on writing this paper.) Name your Microsoft Word file " Lastname347SceneFinal," using your last name in place of Lastname and omitting the quotation marks and using no spaces, like this:
To submit this artifact, click on the "B1: Final Scene Analysis" phrase from the main portfolio menu. Then use the "Browse" button and locate the file on your computer and select it. That should take you back to the main portfolio menu.Mahone347SceneFinal
Please be sure to capitalize exactly as shown in the example.
B2: Final Contribution Self-Assessment. In a Microsoft Word document with a standard academic heading (see T20 in"Tips for Better Prose" ), write two substantial paragraphs that explain:
(a) which of the participant profiles described in the course's contribution document at http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/Partic.html best fits you so far, and why you think so, matching specific elements of the descriptions to your own observations about your contributions for the whole quarter ; and
(b) which of the small group roles, described in that same document, you have tried this quarter. Please note that I expect this short response to be carefully written and proofread.
It is fine if your self-assessment is essentially the same as the midquarter version. Just make sure it is up-to-date.
Name your Microsoft Word file " Lastname347SelfAssessFinal ," using your last name in place of Lastname and omitting the quotation marks and using no spaces, like this:
Mahone347SelfAssessFinal
Please be sure to capitalize exactly as shown in the example.
To submit your contribution self-assessment, click on "B2: Final Contribution Self-Assessment" phrase from the main portfolio menu. Click on the "Browse" button and locate the file on your computer and select it.
B3: Film Proposal. (See http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/BIS347Prop.html for instructions on writing this paper.) Name your Microsoft Word file " Lastname347Prop," using your last name in place of Lastname and omitting the quotation marks and using no spaces, like this:
Mahone347Prop
Please be sure to capitalize exactly as shown in the example.
To submit this artifact, click on the "B3: Film Proposal" phrase from the main portfolio menu. Then use the "Browse" button and locate the file on your computer and select it. That should take you back to the main portfolio menu.
B4: Reflective Paper. Your reflective paper is the final component of your learning portfolio. Name your Microsoft Word file " Lastname347Reflect," using your last name in place of Lastname and omitting the quotation marks and using no spaces, like this:
Mahone347Reflect
Please be sure to capitalize exactly as shown in the example.
To submit this artifact, click on the "B4: Reflective Paper" phrase from the main portfolio menu. Then use the "Browse" button and locate the file on your computer and select it. That should take you back to the main portfolio menu.
Those four items complete your final portfolio.
It does not matter when you submit items into your portfolio as long as all of the required elements are in the portfolio by the deadline.
Your final learning portfolio is due online at 3:15 p.m. sharp on Monday, March 10. Because I have provided the maximum amount of time to complete this assignment, because I need to return graded portfolios before grades are due, and because I need to ensure an equal amount of time to be fair to everyone in class, I will accept late portfolios submitted after 3:15 p.m. on March 10 but no later than 3:15 p.m. sharp on March 11, with twenty percentage points deducted from the learning portfolio score and from the score on each item (scene analysis, film proposal, or both) received after the deadline, during the grace period. However, I will be an absolute stickler for that grace period. Let me be clear: A portfolio submitted at 3:16 p.m. on March 11 is not one minute late, but rather is twenty-four hours and one minute late, and I will not accept it. I will accept no portfolios after 3:15 p.m. sharp on March 11 for any reason, which probably will result in a 0.0 for the course , so I strongly recommend finishing early to avoid any unforeseen problems . Try not to count on the twenty-four hour grace period. Think of the deadline as 3:15 p.m. on March 10.
Check the submission for yourself (required):
After submitting your portfolio, from the main page, check to see if an artifact appears on each page. Then open each artifact to make sure it is the document you expected.
Basis for grading your learning portfolio (with the reflective paper heavily weighted):
Completeness
(responds appropriately to the assignment in form and
content)
20
percent
Depth of
response (quality of detail and support; sophistication of ideas and
argument)
70
percent
Quality of
writing (organization; spelling, grammar, diction,
punctuation)
10
percent
TOTAL
5 percent of final course grade
This page last updated January 16, 2008.
