We will post materials here that we might generate during Wednesday’s (8/18) train-the-trainers workshop with Jeffrey Yan from Digication.
Agenda:
232 SAC
10:00 a.m.: Introductions
10:15-noon: First Year Writing digital portfolios, 2009-10; Digication overview, uses, and features
Noon-12:45: Lunch and discussion
1:00-3:00: ITD, FITS, and IS overview (AMS technical support and training, Help Desk, back-end); discussion, Q&A, hands-on development
3:15-3:30: break
3:30-5:00: First-year Writing Outcomes & Assessment in McGaw Hall; meet with Professors Darsie Bowden (Director, First-Year Writing) and Peter Vandenberg (Department Chair)
Context
Initial First-Year Writing Instructor queries, which also foreshadow student queries:
— “I want to let you know that I did not receive my log-in information. If you could help me out with this I would greatly appreciate it”
— “Will we have a scanner available? I have some newspaper articles and such that I want to scan in”
— “Will we be able to password protect the portfolios or will they be public?”
— “I have clicked around in Digication and it seems pretty user-friendly, if basic. Will students be able to personalize it (visually, I mean) as much as they could with Mac portfolios, for example?”
— “I have no idea what I’m going to use to create my teaching portfolio, so it’ll be kind of an adventure for me trying to get stuff together …”
Examples
From Jeff:
http://bu.digication.com/connielu/Home//
http://bu.digication.com/LGBT/Introduction_for_Unit//
Some of today’s participants:
Matthew P.
Eric I. (compare previous iteration in WordPress)
Jean B.
From DePaul: