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SDV 164 - Electronic Portfolio Dev

Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 2
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: General
Students will receive instruction in creating an electronic portfolio of work. Emphasis will be on selecting artifacts, reflecting on choices, formatting and displaying a web-based portfolio for career or college transfer.
Competencies
  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the purposes of an electronic portfolio
    1. Distinguish between the different purposes of electronic portfolios such as working, presentation, job interview, program entrance requirement, reflection of one’s academic growth, etc
    2. Demonstrate an understanding of the difference between private and public portfolios
    3. Determine the purpose of the electronic portfolio that is being created for this class
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of choices involved in the selection of pieces for an electronic portfolio
    1. Practice audience, purpose and/or situation analysis
    2. Practice purposeful rather than random selection of pieces for one’s portfolio based on one’s audience, purpose, and/or situation
  3. Demonstrate writing reflection and assessment as central to the creation and completion of a well-executed portfolio
    1. When appropriate for the purpose of the portfolio, use written reflective pieces in the portfolio as a means of making connections (i.e., between concepts, between portfolio pieces, etc.)
    2. When appropriate for the purpose of the portfolio, use written reflective pieces in the portfolio as a means to assess one’s educational growth and achievement
    3. Assess the effectiveness of the choices one has made in the portfolio (i.e., piece selection and placement, rhetorical choices in pieces, reflections, visual design, etc.) for the audience, purpose and situation determined by the student for his/her portfolio
  4. Demonstrate proficiency in content and format of selected pieces.
    1. Content and format of pieces written and speaking pieces demonstrate rhetorical choices appropriate to their audience, purpose and situation
    2. Content and format of electronic and visual pieces demonstrate rhetorical choices appropriate to their audience, purpose and situation
    3. Portfolio pieces demonstrate correctness in standard English grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and pronunciation.
  5. Demonstrate proficiency in the execution of the technical skills used in the specific creation of the student’s portfolio
    1. When appropriate for their portfolios, students will know the basics of Word, PowerPoint, Excel (i.e., basic tables, charts, graphs), Netscape Commuicator (free WYSIWYG software), Microsoft Publisher (i.e,, flyers and brochures) and Microsoft Front Page
    2. When appropriate for their portfolios, students will know how to take digital pictures and insert them into documents
    3. When appropriate for their portfolios, students will know how to download images from the Internet and insert them into documents
    4. When appropriate for their portfolios, students will work with the PDF platform (Acrobat reader, etc.).
    5. When appropriate for their portfolios, students will work with CDs and CD burners
    6. When appropriate for their portfolios, students will work with web cameras and uploading video images to their portfolios
  6. Demonstrate an understanding of the ethical dimension and legal consequences of plagiarism
    1. Demonstrate an understanding that plagiarism is ethically wrong
    2. Demonstrate an understanding of basic copyright laws (i.e., sources must be credited, all emails are automatically copyrighted, etc.)
    3. Demonstrate an understanding of how to research basic copyright questions
  7. Create a personal electronic portfolio



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