Overview
The final product of this course is a
project-based ePortfolio that collects all the best works of your course
projects. This ePortfolio will be published to your Cortland web account. You will not be given credit unless your work is published online. Your ePortfolio needs to meet the requirements on both
the content and the technical skills defined below.
Contents
1. Homepage
Your online ePortfolio will have a homepage named index.html. The homepage should be designed to reflect your personal taste. It should also be professional.
2. The seven (7) + one (1) optional technology
projects you are going to finish in this technology course
Somewhere in your ePortfolio you need to have a project page named projects.html that shows all eight your projects and links to each project. Here are the eight projects:
Project #1: Initial
Publication of your ePortfolio
Project #2: Elementary School Website Design Contest (Group Project)
Project #3: Puzzle Maker and Microsoft Paint Project
Project #4: Microsoft Word Project (Optional)
Project #5: Web Quest Project (Group Project)
Project #6: Microsoft Publisher Project
Project #7: Digital Story Telling Project
Project #8: Reflections on the Learning Journey of Technology
An annotation of at least 50 words is required with each project. The annotation informs the audience:
1) what this project is about;
2) what technology is used to create this project; and
3) In what ways this project will facilitate kids learning in your classroom teaching.
It is suggested, though not required, that you publish each project on its due date posted in the Calendar. Requirements for each project is constructed and discussed in class and posted on the calendar.
3. Other Elements - Optional
You can add other elements to your ePortfolio. To encourage creativity, the course gives a lot of freedom to those who take it. In class you will get the basic technical skills. I will leave the design of your ePortfolio to yourself so that you can make your ePortfolio the way you want it to look. As long as the required elements are there and the projects meet the basic requirements, your eportfolio will be considered acceptable.
You can choose to put links leading to each of the projects in the main page. Or you can design your home page in the way you want.
You can include some other elements such
as personal pages, your resume, other course projects, etc, but they
are optional and will not be graded. However, you will lose points for any links that are broken.
You will get bonus points for
aesthetic considerations and innovations of your design.
Technical skills
1. Be able to design a single page
2. Be able to design one web site that includes multiple pages.
3. Be able to publish a single page to your web space.
4. Be able to publish the web site/eportfolio to your web space.
5. Be able to maintain/update your web site.
7. Some aesthetical considerations.
6. Other advanced skills that
you learn from the resources provided by this course or from elsewhere
(Optional).
ePortfolio
Rubric and Specifications
This
rubric is complementary to Syllabus and Basic Requirements. Please
revisit Syllabus and this Basic
Requirements and follow them accordingly.
| ePortfolio Required
Components: |
Notes: |
Value: |
1.
Project #1 Publishing your Home Page |
This
file must be named: index.html.
1.
The first publication (project #1)
- Publish your homepage and inform Dr.Shi your URL (web address) by its due date.
Two (2) points will be deduced for each day that your submission is late.
- Include at least one graphic.
- A
layout of the components based on the Syllabus, including
links to sub-pages (which can be empty pages
with just a title).
- An annotation.
|
10
points
|
| Projects #2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 |
1. Complete each project based
on requirements for each individual project. Missing elements will lose you points.
2. "Completion" of a project is defined
as having that project published on line. If
a major
link to a project
or a product
is broken,
you will lose most of the points of that project, which will
be a loss of 8 points.
3. The expectations
for the project
#8 Reflections will be high. Tell your own learning
experiences and stories. Start this project early. Do not wait to
start until the last moment.
4. You are encouraged to publish each project
by its due date posted on the Calendar or agreed upon in
class. You will get 2 bonus points if strive for completion
and publication of all the projects by their suggested due
dates.
5. A reflective annotation is required with
each of the 10 projects. A missing annotation will take 2 points
off of the total 10 points for each project. |
6 x10=60 points
-8 points if a link to a project or product is broken.
2 bonus points
-2 for each missing annotation |
| Final Submission |
The completion of your final submission is defined as publishing your entire ePortfolio on your Cortland Web Account by the due date.
1. Navigation Points
This
is where I keep track of your broken links or other errors
in the html files. For each broken or misdirected link (links
to images included), 1 point will be subtracted.
A maximum point loss of 10 out of the total 80 points
for projects will be set for minor links (links that do not
link to a project).
2. Aesthetic considerations
Appealing use of graphics, colors, animations, sounds, etc. and innovative design will be reflected in the points awarded in this category.
If your ePortfolio meets the minimal specifications described in the Syllabus, the Basic Requirements page, and this Rubric, you will get full marks without the bonus points. Bonus points is a grading category that will require my subjective judgment.
1 = exceeds requirements
2 = exceeds requirements by a huge margin
3. You
are expected to submit the final ePortfolio by its due date.
Failure to submit the entire ePortfolio
by its due date will result in a failing grade. |
6 points
-1 for other broken links.
2 bonus points
|
TaskStream |
To meet the TaskStream requirements
for this course is very simple: just post your ePortfolio
link to TaskStream by its due date (usually the end of the
final examination period). You will receive training for
TaskStream. You need to have sufficient mastery of TaskStream
and submit your course projects as required by the Department
and the College. |
4 points |
Extra Items |
You
are welcome and encouraged to add any other items that
you wish to include. You will
not be penalized for any points on the quality of these
extra items. However, there should not be
broken or misdirected links (links to images included).
Broken links to extra items will be penalized as with the required elements. |
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80 Points total* |
Notes: [fine print!]
* The total points for the ePortfolio
is 80 points:
7 Projects x 10 points (=70 points) + 6 points for Final
Submission (= evaluation of the entire ePortfolio) + 4 points for
the TaskStream submission = 80 points
** Presentation 10 points + Professionalism 10 points + ePortfolio 80 points =
100 points for the course.
*** Slight Adjustments to the project requirements and grades will be made to better meet the needs of the class at the discretion of the instructor. Be flexible!
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This
page was last updated on Jan.15, 2009
For comments or questions contact
Dr. Shufang Shi
shis@cortland.edu