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Portfolio

This is a project-based course, which means that students work in teams to achieve a common objective.  This class has one project that is large enough for all members to take an active role.  Your portfolio is a record of all your activities in your group and as a student in this class.  It consists of the following parts:

• Evidence of your work.  Documents you wrote or collaborated on, long emails, documents you edited, forms you created or worked on, records of interaction with clients or sponsors, testing materials, reports, write-ups, and any other artifact that you worked on. These should be presented as Word or PDF documents and categorized by date or type.
• Explanatory notes.  These notes, accompanying each item, should tell whether you wrote it, collaborated on it, reviewed it, or edited it.  Think of these notes as "labels" on museum items.
• Reflective analysis.  This 2-3 page document discusses your work and the evidence you present and helps me, the reader, understand the significance of your work.

Media for the portfolio maybe a web site, a storage site (such as a Yahoo group or a storage facility associated with an email vendor (such as inbox.com), or any document repository where I can read your work.  You could do a private, password protected blog with attachments. I'm experimenting with wordpress.com, which allows you to create a blog (which would serve as your explanatory notes and reflective analysis) and upload files (which would serve as evidence of your work.)

Quizzes

Quizzes consist of a variety of techniques designed to elicit your understanding of the reading materials.  All quizzes will be conducted orally in class (I read a question) with answers hand written and collected.  Quizzes are simple and straightforward, and if you've done the reading you should have no problem with them.  You are allowed to miss three quizzes during the semester and I don't do make-ups.

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