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 Portfolio tool. I use electronic portfolios for
several reasons:
Downloading and submitting the portfolio: When you are ready to submit your portfolio, log onto the Portfolio tool at <http://portfolio.washington.edu/optin.cgi?owner=davidgs&id=3355>. You will need your UW Net ID to log on.
Under "Choose a portfolio location," please choose
the default location and then click the "Continue" button. After receiving
a confirmation that your portfolio was installed, you will see the main portfolio
page. You do not need to click on the instructions, because that link will
just take you to this page.
First, click on the "Preferences" link at the top of the page. Enter your full name and any valid e-mail address, and then, under "Portfolio Preferences," click on the box next to "Notify me when a submitted portfolio is returned."
Then, one by one, you will add content to your electronic portfolio. Refer to the specific instructions below for each item.
It does not matter when
you submit items into your portfolio. You can submit them one at a
time, or all at once. I will not be able to see any of them, though,
until you submit the entire portfolio to me for review. This means
that you can change things, add things, edit things, etc., without worrying
about me seeing your work until it is ready for me. It also means,
though, that even if items are in your portfolio by the deadline, they do
not count as "on time" unless the entire portfolio is submitted to me by
the deadline. It is like putting things into a folder to turn in to
a professor. He or she does not care when you put your work into the
folder. He or she cares only when the folder gets submitted.
Please make sure you do not submit the portfolio
until it is ready, and when you do submit it, please make sure that it contains
everything that is supposed to be included.
When you have submitted both of the elements of your portfolio, you need to click on the green "Submit" button to submit the entire portfolio to me for review. When you click on that button, you will see a list of the artifacts that you have submitted. Click on the "Check ALL pages" button just below the list. PRINT THIS PAGE! The printed list will be the only proof you have that all of the documents were submitted in the portfolio! Then click on the "Submit" button. You should get a pop-up confirmation that your portfolio has been submitted. Then log out and close your browser window to protect your UW Net ID. Important: Once you click the "Submit" button, you cannot go back to add anything, so make sure everything is in its final form and that all of the documents are included before clicking on "Submit."
Your midquarter learning portfolio is due online
at 10:50 a.m. sharp on Wednesday, April 27. There is no grace
period for the midquarter portfolio.
About ten 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 will receive an e-mail message when your portfolio is ready for you to
pick up.
First, gather all of your work that is to be included in your course-end learning portfolio. The guidelines for what to include are listed below. I strongly recommend downloading the learning portfolio items from the Catalyst Portfolio tool (see "Downloading and submitting the portfolio," below) so you can see what you will need to respond to, so you have time to think about and draft responses.
Then, write a formal, reflective paper of about 800 words (no fewer than 600 and no more than 1000) that discusses, in an order that makes sense as the best way to present your thinking:
Comparing your pre-course and course-end questionnaires
is a good way to prepare your reflective paper.
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).
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.
Needless to say, your work must be entirely original.
Using another person's ideas or words without proper attribution, whether
intentional or accidental, constitutes plagiarism, and will result in a zero
on this assignment. Please re-read "Maintaining Academic Integrity" at <http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/Integrity.html>.
Downloading and submitting the portfolio: When you are ready to submit your portfolio, log onto the Portfolio tool at <http://portfolio.washington.edu/optin.cgi?owner=davidgs&id=3355>. You will need your UW Net ID to log on.
Under "Choose a portfolio location," please choose
the default location and then click the "Continue" button. After receiving
a confirmation that your portfolio was installed, you will see the main portfolio
page. You do not need to click on the instructions, because that link will
just take you to this page.
First, under "Options" or "Preferences," check
to make sure that your full name is still entered from when you completed
the midquarter portfolio.
Then, one by one, you will add content to your electronic portfolio. Refer to the specific instructions below for each item.
It does not matter when
you submit items into your portfolio. You can submit them one at a
time, or all at once. I will not be able to see any of them, though,
until you submit the entire portfolio to me for review. This means
that you can change things, add things, edit things, etc., without worrying
about me seeing your work until it is ready for me. It also means,
though, that even if items are in your portfolio by the deadline, they do
not count as "on time" unless the entire portfolio is submitted to me by
the deadline. It is like putting things into a folder to turn in to
a professor. He or she does not care when you put your work into the
folder. He or she cares only when the folder gets submitted.
Please make sure you do not submit the portfolio
until it is ready, and when you do submit it, please make sure that it contains
everything that is supposed to be included.
When you have submitted all of the elements of your portfolio, you need to click on the green "Submit" button to submit the entire portfolio to me for review. When you click on that button, you will see a list of the artifacts that you have submitted. Click on the "Check ALL pages" button just below the list. PRINT THIS PAGE! The printed list will be the only proof you have that all of the documents were submitted in the portfolio! Then click on the "Submit" button. You should get a pop-up confirmation that your portfolio has been submitted. Then log out and close your browser window to protect your UW Net ID. Important: Once you click the "Submit" button, you cannot go back to add anything, so make sure everything is in its final form and that all of the documents are included before clicking on "Submit."
Your learning portfolio is due online at 10:50
a.m. sharp on Monday, May 30. 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 10:50 a.m. on May 30 but no later than 10:50 a.m. on Tuesday, May 31,
with only ten percentage points deducted from the learning portfolio score
(no deduction from the essay score). However, I will be an absolute
stickler for that grace period. Let me be clear: A portfolio
submitted at 10:51 a.m. on May 31 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 10:50 a.m. sharp on May 31 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 10:50 a.m. on Monday, May
30.
Basis for grading your learning portfolio:
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 10 percent of final course grade
Note that the score on the learning portfolio is entirely independent of your score on your paper revision. Your essay revision will be graded separately and the grade and comments will be returned to you as part of the returned learning portfolio.
If you activated e-mail notification as instructed
above, you will receive an e-mail message when your portfolio is ready for
you to pick up.
Let me emphasize that I expect your best effort in this and every exercise. My expectations are high because your ability to produce outstanding work is high.
Some additional advice:
This page last updated April 18, 2005.