What is An Online Portfolio

ELU/Science

Spring 2002 (Last updtaed Spring 2003)

Instructor: Buthaina Al-Othman

Final Project

Online-Portfolio

A portfolio is usually a folder where you keep your important completed work and projects.
An online portfolio is when your complete work is kept and published on the Internet, using a weblog or a wbsite instead of a folder.
Your portfolio should include these three parts:
1. A self-intorduction Paragraph, consisting of six to eight sentences.(In this paragraph, you should include information about your name, age, major, hobbies, favorite music or movies,adventures,and future plans or dreams).
2. Body of the portfolio. This part should include:
  - Your answers to the online weekly activities.(Not less that 3 activities from the 7-week CALL program, which you like and want other people in the world to see on the Internet).
  - Each answer should include the name and number of the activity, in addition to the URL of the website you have used as a source of your information.
  - Your comments on each online activity, in other words writing your opinion on each activity saying whether it is interesting, boring, difficult or not and your reasons, all in 2 to 3-sentences.
3. Finally, you will write an evaluation essay on the advantages and disadvantages of the final project.
  
  The essay shoul include 4 paragraphs, including an introduction paragraph, 2 body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph.(Note that you can use your comments on each activity as your supporting details for each point you provide).
Keys to a successful portfolio:

Make the overall presentation of your portfolio well organized, and professional.
Complete the activities as you receive them. Falling behind in your work will only cause problems later on.
Spend sometime on them, applying thought and research.
Try to be creative by using the computer skills you learned and your imagination.
Ask for help; show rough drafts of completed activities to your teacher.

Good Luck!

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