Winter Quarter beginning-of-the-term notes:
- Your First Year Writing sections have been linked to Digication, and you can confirm that — always a good idea — by logging into Digication, clicking on Courses, and noting that your course is listed there. You can also look under People in your course, and see students listed there. If they have any previous and accessible portfolios from other classes, you’ll be able to view them.
- We will confirm later this week that our First Year Writing Portfolio assignments are also linked — a midterm portfolio (optional) and a final portfolio (required)
- We have a shared, programmatic First Year Writing Digital Portfolio assignment here —https://depaul.digication.com/fyw/Portfolio_Assignment3 — where you’ll find both specific, concrete prompts for reflection and more open-ened generative prompts. Please let Michael know if you’d like any help deciphering or using them.
- We also have a DRAFT assignment for an alternative “curated model” digital portfolio here —https://depaul.digication.com/fyw/Alternative_Curated_Method — in which students compose a portfolio based on a selection-and-reflection process but not anchored by a reflective essay. Again, let Michael know if you’d like to talk through those possibilities.
- Finally, if you’re newish to digital portfolios — or even if you have experience — and would like to read some background into the writing-pedagogy and critical backgrounds for digital portfolios (student/writer identity formation, the ethics of disclosure, how reflection gets taught, the problem of performance vs. reflection), we have a small D-WRD library on those topics to help fill in some of the blanks.