"What are digital portfolios and how can we use them?"
During the school year, students will collect and organize projects, photos, and artifacts into a multimedia format that represents and signifies accomplishments. Students revisit, revise, and rethink earlier work and recreate themselves in new and reflective ways through their digital portfolios as the year progresses.
Where do we start?
First, create a folder titled, "Digital portfolio, [your name], term one."
Second, save in this file the work you have already constructed in digital form so far this year. Here are the items you should save.
- Floyd and Morman scholarly article deconstruction: A "changing culture of fatherhood": effects on affectionate communication, closeness, and satisfaction in men''s relationships with their fathers and their sons.
- your critical analysis of The Chosen
- outside novels' webquest
Third, revisit the memoir writing brainstorming you have compiled thus far:
- memory map visualization and drawing of a special childhood event
- Questions for Memoirists (adapted from Nanci Atwell)
- "My American Dream" writing prompt
- timeline of my memoiro-worthy life events.
Create a new Word file. From the items listed above, cull a list of the ten best possible topics for writing your own personal memoir.
Fourth, when you're done with the first three items, visit with Ms. Fortuna. You and she will review the digital portfolio you've created thus far and identify together one memoir-worthy topic on which to write.
Fifth, draft out a memoir. Use MLA format and no more than 350 words. This memoir is due after Columbus Day break. Happy remembering!
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