Blogging Portfolio
One item to discuss today is the final project for the class, your blogging portfolio. And among the items we need to consider are these:
- What should it include? (Will it highlight your best blogging, be an overview of what you tend to blog about and/or how you tend to blog, or a combination, or...?)
- What should it look like? (Will it be a blog entry? Will it be a separate web page?)
- How will it be assessed?
posted by Donna @ 4/20/2006 01:40:00 PM
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And some more things to consider:
if your portfolio is a matter of creating a blog post, it would be a good idea to make the post itself representative of your best blogging. In other words, it needs to be enhanced. This is a two-week project, remember.
You can also use those two weeks to enhance your blogs, in order to further enhance your grade pitch (which we decided would be a separate but overlapping document).
I like the first three criteria listed on Jerz's sample. I think those are relevant to our course. When is this project due?
I don't think we should have to turn in a printed out copy. I think it would sufficient to display 3 of their bests posts, which could be judged on the most interactive, the best-written, or what sparked the most discussion. And maybe include some of your own comments on the blog as a whole.
I think you point out important considerations, Justin.
One way of thinking about or visualizing the blog as a whole is to create a "cloud" for your blog. I have one on my blog, and you can create yours here: http://www.zoomclouds.com/
By the way, I no longer require the printout. It really wasn't necessary.
I also added a criteria for "timeliness" which, the way I use it, refers to students blogging about assigned readings before the class in which we're scheduled to discuss those readings. That might go part of the way towards responding to j l's concerns.
By the way, I really like Nichole's comment about including a bad entry... my concern is that students might just choose a random entry that's very short or contains a bad link. What about including an entry that surprised, disappointed, or otherwise affected you the most (positively or negatively)?
Regarding the grade itself, I do indicate how I'll determine that in the syllabus:
* Maintain an individual blog and write substantial entries at least three times weekly, beginning no later than week 3 (40%)
* Contribute at least one entry per week to the class “mother blog,” where the focus will be on metablogging (10%)
* Contribute generative comments to class blog and to class members’ individual blogs: aim for at least two comments per week on class blog and at least one comment every other week on class members’ blog (20%)
* Give two 10-15 oral presentations to class: (1) how-to presentation to enhance blogging, and (2) discussion-prompter on blogs in the news (10%)
* Create an electronic portfolio at the end of the semester to highlight your best blogging (20%)
And we agreed that simply meeting each of these requirements would yield a grade in the B-range. However, that's now come up as an issue, because no one believes that they met the minimum when it comes to contributing to the class blog, and also because some believe they've gone beyone the minimum when it comes to making additional contributions to the class and to their own blogs.
So: here's the thing:
(1) The grade pitch is not the same as the portfolio. The grade pitch is your chance to look at the minimum requirements and tell me how well you think you've met them and what I should take into consideration in deciding what your base grade should be.
(2) The portfolio is your chance to highlight your best work. The grade for your portfolio will count 20% of your final grade, and so it will be above and beyond your "base grade." (Let's say, for example, that your "base grade" is a B and your portfolio is an A: that would average out to a B+.)
And now this comment is getting awfully long, so I'm going to create a new blog entry to continue talking about the portfolio.
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