Spring Workshops:
- Friday 3/18 — 10:00 a.m.-noon 143 McGaw
- Friday 3/18 — 2:00-4:00 p.m. 143 McGaw
- Friday 4/1 — 10:00 a.m.-noon 143 McGaw
- Friday 4/1 — 2:00-4:00 p.m. 143 McGaw
- Friday 5/13 — Introduction to Digication — 2:00-4:00 p.m. 143 McGaw
- Friday 5/27 — Introduction to Digication — 10:00 a.m.-noon 143 McGaw
Get access to Digication ahead of time, via your Campus Connect credentials, with this IS form.
Background:
Beginning with the Autumn 2011 term, all sections of FYW will require students to compose digital portfolios with Digication, DePaul’s digital portfolio platform. While there is nothing new about portfolios in writing programs — they have been standard practice for about 30 years — and while there is nothing new about digital portfolios in writing programs, the practice and the technology might be new to many of us here at DePaul. Our workshops then, combine pedagogical contexts with practical, hands-on activities.
How we’ll use our workshop time:
- 45 minutes: context and overview of the program
- 45 minutes: creating your Teaching Portfolio in Digication, which will prepare you to anticipate students’ questions, as the process is the same — and you get a teaching portfolio out of it!
- 30 minutes: open lab and problem-solving
How to Prepare:
- Visit Digication — see how students and faculty in a range of disciplines use Digication in programs around the country
- Visit DePaul’s Digication public directory to see how DePaul students and faculty have already been using the platform
- Visit the First Year Writing Program’s Digication site — student and faculty resources
- Collect materials that you can use to compose your own Teaching Portfolio during our workshop.
Resources:
- Why digital portfolios? (D-WRD)
- “Principles and Practices in Electronic Portfolios” (NCTE)
- Miller, Ross and Wende Morgaine. “The Benefits of E-portfolios for Students and Faculty in Their Own Words” (Peer Review, Winter 2009)
- Yancey, Kathleen. “Electronic Portfolios a Decade into the Twenty-first Century: What We Know, What We Need to Know” (Peer Review, Winter 2009)
- Yancey, Kathleen. “Postmodernism, Palimpsest, and Portfolios: Theoretical Issues in the Representation of Student Work” (CCC 55:4 / June 2004)
- The best resource we have, however, is each other, and the department’s D-WRD Working Group is an active example of collective expertise. We meet twice a month to share assignments, teaching tips, technology problems, and to talk about pedagogy.
Digication Documentation
- Quickstart [PDF] 2 pp.
- Portfolios [PDF] 37 pp.