Professional Webfolio Assignment -- English 300C, Spring 2002
GeneralNot a graded assignment, but considered a part of class participation to upgrade our technological literacy and professional outlook. To be done IN CLASS in the lab only, on selected lab days. You may be asked to draft or work on your resume and a preliminary version of your teaching philosophy in class. Be thinking about your accomplishments, including honors and awards, employment history (including volunteer work!) for the resume, and language that will begin to express how and why you teach for your teaching philosophy (hint: remember the essay portion of your ILAS 301 application?).
GoalsTo give you a head start on developing an electronic professional teaching portfolio that you will need for the employment process. To help you develop the overall structure of your online teaching portfolio. To give you basic practice in creating Web pages using the simplest, most common tools: MS Word and Netscape Composer. To show you how to publish your Webfolio on the web (public) and how to save it to disk (private).
Description
- In Lab, you will use Netscape Composer to create a new home page, with your name, e-mail address, and the categories listed below. You will then decide whether you would like to make your resume in Composer, or do it in Word and save it as a Web page. You will decide what documents to put in your webfolio, save them in Web format, and create links from your home page. You will draft a teaching philosophy of at least a few sentences.
- I will also show you how to open and alter the preset page that has been set up for you on your F drive in the WWW directory. You will then be able to decide whether you want to make your webfolio "live" on the Web, or to save it to your F drive and a backup floppy disk only.
InstructionsOpen Netscape Composer from the START menu or choose NEW and BLANK PAGE from the Netscape FILE menu if you already have Netscape open. Type in your name at the top, and your e-mail address under that. Then type in the following categories: Resume, Teaching Philosophy, Sample Lesson Plans, and Reflections on Teaching. We may decide on other categories we need. I will show you how to make these into links to new web pages. The first time you save, name your file index.html. As you work, be sure to click SAVE frequently and put copies on both your floppy disk and your F drive account. Open a new Composer document, and type in your name. We will then brainstorm categories and formatting for the resume and type them in. See Dr. Day's online resume page for more suggestions. SAVE this document the first time as resume.html, and save it frequently to both floppy disk and F drive. Open a new Word document and type in Teaching Philosophy at the top. Then begin to craft a few sentences that express your reasons for teaching and the approach you want to take. Take a look at the suggestions on writing a teaching philosophy from Iowa State, but don't be overwhelmed; all I am looking for at this early stage is a beginning, a few good ideas. Save this document using the SAVE AS WEB PAGE feature in the FILE menu as tphil.html. As you work on it, keep saving it to both your floppy disk and F drive. Finally, we will make a Reflections on Teaching page, with links to your Lives paper and your ILAS 201 reflection paper. I will give you more detailed instructions on how to do this after we convert these files to Web pages. If you want to go "live" on the Web, save all your files in the WWW directory of your F drive. I will help you make this work properly.
Last update February 28, 2002
By Michael Day
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