Let us do this, people!

To prep for your final portfolios, please get into your sequence two groups.Once you have done so, then you will be assigned a portfolio from one of my previous courses to constructively review, grade, and blog. Here are the assignments:

Group 1: Sarah Wang’s 131 Portfolio with a “tags” theme (passcode is “sarah”)

Group 2: Zachary Brown’s 131 Portfolio with a robot theme

Group 3: Gareth Snow’s 131 Portfolio with an “algorithm” and “atlas” theme

Group 4: Jessica Vu’s 131 Portfolio with a “movement” theme

Group 5: Kendell Tylee’s 131 Portfolio with a diversity theme

For this collaborative workshop, each group should work its way through the portfolio, emphasizing the “meta-text” and “meta-arguments” in the portfolio itself (with less emphasis on the attached papers and evidence).

Once you have reviewed the entire portfolio, then you should compose a single blog entry for your entire group (categorized under “e-portfolio”) and that entry should answer the following questions:

(1) How does the portfolio address the course outcomes and emerge from the course? Be specific. Are the outcomes in the students own words? Are they explicitly mentioned? Are they creatively integrated? Are they shown, or are they just told?

(2) What type of evidence does the portfolio provide? To what effects?

(3) What three rhetorical strategies (e.g., how the student says what she says) are most effective or persuasive about the portfolio? Strategies might include theme, writing style, ways of addressing the audience, and site design.

(4) Name three things that could be more effective or more persuasive and explain how they could be revised accordingly.

(5) As a group of 100-level English students, what from this portfolio might you use in the service of your own portfolios? That is, what did you learn about the portfolio process from your example portfolio?

(6) Based upon what you read, what grade would you give this portfolio on the 4.0 scale? (And don’t ask me what grade I gave it. You know that I cannot release student grades.)

Two things to keep in mind: (1) The audience for this entry includes the balance of your 121 classmates, and (2) as you write, you must include at least five transitions from the class website.

Also, please note that the course outcomes may have changed since these portfolios were composed. In fact, they did.

I’ll give you about forty-five minutes to read the portfolios and complete your blog entry. And when you are finished, you’ll report back out to the class.

Let me know what questions you have!