Hi there!
Here you have some video tutorials on how to create blogs and how to create your portfolio with it.
This is a basic tutorial about how to start a blog.
And here you have some links to more videos that might be useful as well.
How to change a template (basic)
How to create a Static Home Page. When you do the posting on your blog, you will always see the last post at the beginning. For your portfolios it is very convenient that the first page is always the same.
If you decide to change the template, consider watching this.
And now that I mention that, I would like to give you some advice.
When we learn how to use new templates in our blog, we feel very excited about it and want to try them all. You try one, then another, and so. But you will find that some of the templates don't work the way you want and you could experience some anoyance, like losing part of your contents. To avoid that, you could consider doing some of these things.
1- Build a trial-and-error blog. If you ruin it, you can solve it because it will be only for tests.
2- Do all the change of templates first, and then start posting. That way you make sure you will material will not suffer.
3- If you already started posting and want to make changes in template, save all your material first.
I must say thanks to Bob Sommers for these great tutorials. Here's his website (with a lot more videos) if you want to learn how to do more things with your blogs.
Video tutorials
Portfolio and other FAQs
FAQ means "frequently asked questions." Here you will find the questions you've been asking me when I have seen you in any part of the university.
1- Teacher. How many essays do we have to write, finally? Some classmates are saying that you said "two" in class. How many, then?
That's right. I said two essays during our classes. But now the situation has changed. I already have too much to correct, so I only need you to write one essay. Well, that is the essay that you have already given to me.
If you wrote the second essay, you can give it to me and I can consider it as part of your mark.
2- How do I write the reflections?
Well, as it was said in the iduction session in the lab, you have to write two kinds of reflections. 1) a general reflection, where you consider your work during the term, good and bad aspects, and 2) specific reflections per artifact, where you mention the draft and the asignment, the complications you had, your achievement. I short, the reflections are about how you wrote, not about the topics you wrote about. If you want to mention that you like writing about this topic or no, do it, but in an introdution, not in the reflection. (I'll try to write a couple of samples of reflections)
3- Teacher, when are you going to give us our essays and stories back, so we can include them in the portfolio? Thanks.
I asume that you have copies of the asigments you submit to all you subjects, so you can include that copy in the portfolio. BUT, I think it is very convenient that you know how good your stories and essays were, so I am working to give all your asignments back before you give me the portfolios; that way, you can consider those marks in the reflection, if you wish to do so. I can have that ready for this Friday at 4 in the afternoon. (If you are coming, please send me a message to leave your essays as priority. That was I can guarantee that I will have it, and I can save energies by checking the ones that you'll pick up)
If I get more I will post them here.
regards,
JCA
End-of-Term Information
Dear students:
I hope you’re fine and having success with the last evaluations of all your subjects. It’s been a term with lots of good and bad moments and we’re coming to the end of it, so I would like to thank you all for having written such nice stories and essays, most of them trying to meet the deadlines. It’s been a real pleasure working with you this term. Now I am going to share important information with you.
This is all you need to know for your portfolios.
Contents: (simplified)
* 1 introduction
* 1 pre-writing activity (any actvity: brainstorm, clustering, outlining, freewriting, etc) with its corresponding reflection about it.
* 1 narrative work (any), with its draft, and reflection.
* 1 essay (any essay), its draft and its reflection.
* 1 general reflection (about everything we did during the term, and also about the portfolio itself.)
Notes:
-You can do your porfolio using Power Point, Open Office, or a Blog. You choose. (I'll try to upload a video tutorial of blogging as well)
-If you want to include something else, you are free to do so.
-Take a look at the rubric that I will use to evaluate your portfolios.
-I am working to give your assigments back next Tuesday.
-The new deadline is the 10th of July. (I needed more time to check your work, so I thought you deserved more time too)
- The last essay is not compulsory. (Only one is enough; but if you want to include it, it's okay.)
If you have any doubt, feel free to ask BEFORE the deadline.
Thank you and good luck with your work.
Where is the test?
In room E-3
Parallel A at 9:15 and B at 8:00.
You have three hours available for that.
Good luck!
Portfolio Instructions
Hi All:
Here you have the PPTs that we saw in the lab that day. I also included a link to the video tutorial of virtual portfolios with Power Point.
Kinds regards!
- Introduction about portfolios
- portfolio instructions
- blog samples
(The websites that I showed are these: http://www.templates-blogger.com/
http://btemplates.com/
http://www.bloggertemplates.org/
http://blogandweb.com/templates-blogger/
- Rúbrica
jUAN Chamorro A.