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Portfolio Format and Requirements

The printed portfolio is the means by which the virtual TA will evaluate your work in the extra credit projects. The portfolio is essentially a printout of your reports and dialog entries (if required for your project) that you have posted in the Extra Credit folder of Web Crossing.

An easy way to prepare your portfolio is to highlight and copy your material from Moodle to a word processing document as you post your entries. When it is time to turn in your portfolio, just print your word processing document and bring it to lecture on the due date.

(See the Portfolio Evaluation Rubric for more information on the grading of your portfolio.)

Submit your COMPLETE portfolio AND all previous evaluation sheets each time you turn in your portfolio. Your final portfolio should also include your answers to the three survey questions at the end of this page.

Cover Sheet:

  • Student Name

  • Course Number

  • Lab or Disc. instructor's name.

Second Page - Table of Project Activities:

    Prepare a simple table that will allow us to see at a glance how many projects you have completed, of what type, and when they were posted to Moodle.

    Date Type of Project
    Day and Month BioArtist - Language Arts
    Day and Month Media Watcher

    Signature: __________________________

Project Reports:

Each Project Report should include:

  • Your Project Entry (Your book chapter review, media watcher review, speech/seminar report, turtor/tutee report, or language arts entry. etc.)

    • Each project entry should be titled with the name of the project (Book Reviewer, Media Watcher, etc.).

    • Each project entry MUST include the Moodle response line including the response number, your name, the date, and time.

    • Each project report should be at least 500 words (Spech/Seminar project requires 1000 words).

    • Project entries should include YOUR explanation of the biological concept or issue being considered. Project entries should present and explain the biological content as examples of the biological concepts currently being addressed in the lecture of Biology 100/101. Be aware of the Biology 100/101 policy on academic integrity.

    • See the project direction web pages for specific requirements for each type of project.

  • At least 2 Substantial Moodle Dialog Entries (* Tutor/Tutee, and Speech-Seminar projects do not require dialog entries.)

    • Dialog entries are "REPLY" messages that you write to others concerning their project entries in Moodle, or "REPLIES" that others write to you concerning your project entries.

    • Each dialog entry in your printed portfolio MUST include the Web Crossing response line including the response number, your name (or the name of the person responding to you), the date, and time.

    • Substantial dialog entries should be the equivalent of at least 300 words.

    • You must write at least one substantial dialog entry for each of your project entries.

    • One of the two required substantial dialogs may be written by someone else concerning your project or you may write a second if you have received no substantial responses to your work.

    • (Hint - others will help you if you write good dialog entries for them and provide a link to your own work. See the "Making Links to Web Crossing Messages" section on page 6 of the Biology 100/101 Web Crossing Information handout given to you at the beginning of the semester)

    • Substantial dialog entries should clearly indicate that the writer has read, thought about, and processed the information in the original project entry.

    • Dialogs may include: thoughtful questions about the content of the original report, connections to other biological ideas, links to related web sites, personal experiences concerning the topic, or any thoughts on the topic that are relevant.

    • Respond, at least briefly, to dialog entries concerning your work. Answer questions asked by others concerning your work.

At the end of the semester submit a one page response (total) to these questions following the coversheet of your complete, final portfolio:

  • What was the purpose of the extra credit project?

  • What did you feel you contributed to others?

  • What did you get out of the experience?