Requirements for Submission of a "Junior Portfolio"

Due date:  Monday, 12/5 or earlier as you prefer.  (Due means completed in your portfolio web -  Email me when your portfolio is ready for review if prior to 12/5.)

Assignment:  In order to receive a passing grade in COMM 321, the following portions of the web based portfolio must be completed using reasonably good web design techniques.

   1.  The header, footer, and navigation bar must correct and up to date.
 

   2.  Your "Home" page must look completed.  This page should serve as an introduction to your portfolio and to you as a potential Communication professional.  The design and content are entirely open but your goal is to make a good, professional, first impression.  Check carefully to eliminate typos, spelling and grammar errors and awkward or audience insensitive language.
 

   3.  Your resume must look complete and professional on the resume page.  Format problems and other elements that make it difficult to read on-line should be corrected.  The page must also contain a link to a .pdf version of your resume (suitable for printing).
 

   4.  The four "Reflection" pages (Messages, Knowledge, application, Skills) linked to your main Objective page will provide the names of the artifacts you have selected to meet the requirements of the section when you are finished with the portfolio next year – typically in the right hand column with reflection statements on the left.  The points below identify what "correctly formatted" Objectives section pages are like.

• Each "Reflections" page needs to provide an overview of what the section (e.g. messages, knowledge, etc.) is about and why it is important to majors)  for readers who may not be familiar with the field or our program. 

• Each page should be organized and labeled in a way that makes it easy for the reader to see what artifacts are included, what they are and which artifact links to which reflection statement.

• The reflection statements should clearly indicate what portfolio requirement is met by each artifact  (e..g. oral communication, mediated message, knowledge of persuasion, etc.)  However, I will not grade the quality of your reflection statements this semester.
   

• Each of the four "reflections" pages must include:

  • partial or complete reflection statements and links to artifacts for at least three (3) artifacts in the Messages section,

  • at least one artifact and reflection in each of the other 3 sections

  • a grand total of 6 artifact links (LINKS not necessarily 6 different artifacts) on one or another of the four objectives pages.

    • (Artifacts should be in the form of pdf documents whenever possible and are required to be displayed in a "new window.") 

   5.  By the time you complete the portfolio in the Spring of your Senior year, for each of the four reflections pages of the portfolio, you will have a "Reflection"  for each artifact required (and linked on that page) that describes how you have met the requirements for that section (as listed in the evaluation rubric).  In most cases, each reflection page will contain links (on the right side of the page) to the set of artifacts that illustrate your mastery of the goal as explained on the left side of the reflection page.  Artifacts may be papers, web documents and sites, photos or videos, scanned-in tests or evaluation sheets, or any of a variety of other possible materials that can be displayed on the web.