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Teaching Apprenticeship Program: 

Digital Writing Portfolios & Multimodality

 

First Year Writing

DePaul University

August 28th, 2013

 

A Digital Portfolio isn’t a Place or a Thing; it’s a Practice

 

Part I: Contexts: FYW Pedagogy and Digital Portfolios

 

  • The digital portfolio assignment replaces an exam or more conventional term paper; it strikes many writing teachers and writing program administrators as more "authentic" forms of both reflection and assessment, especially when we keep in mind that we're only getting a snapshot of a student's complex, contingent, still-being-negotiated identity as a writer, as a student, and as a person
  • In First Year Writing we value and emphasize the meta-awareness and metacognitive components of portfolios, in which students can articulate not only what they learned but how they learned it
  • We help students develop as reflective practitioners when we support them in their efforts to keep track of their work (collection), take responsibility for selecting pieces of their writing that represent their achievements (selection), and reflect on their own work in the course (reflection). 

Part II: Workshop

 

We will create digital portfolios -- possibly your own Teaching Portfolio, or a draft writing portfolio, just for practice:

  • Create a section based on conventional assignments in your class
  • Create a page to present work done on one of those assignments
  • Create text and images for the content area of your portfolio
  • Practice embedding a video
  • Discuss images, copyright, and attributions
Part III: Resources

 

 

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