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Planning to Document CATA Major
Objectives
Due date: Assignment due Thursday,
November 8, at 2pm (by email).
You must arrange a meeting with Prof. McGaan
within 14 days after submitting your planning
document!! (This part of the assignment is
not optional)
Assignment: By completing this
assignment, you are creating a "roadmap" for how you
will be able to finish the required CATA Electronic
Portfolio. The purpose of the assignment is to
insure:
1) that you understand the CATA Learning
Objectives for the major,
2) that you have plans to obtain materials that
illustrate your mastery of the objectives, and
3) that you have a plan to complete the
portfolio.
This assignment requires you to name the artifacts
you are thinking of using to document your
achievement of CATA Major Learning Objectives.
[ Artifacts
are materials of any type or medium that can
be placed in or linked to your web-based portfolio
(e.g.: papers, web pages, tests, scanned internship
evaluations, video of performances, etc.) and that
you can use to explain how you have achieved success
in meeting the department’s learning objectives for
the major. ]
You will almost certainly need to develop a plan for
obtaining artifacts for those objectives you have
not yet fully or successfully accomplished.
Here are two guides with ideas for artifacts you
might use, created by the CATA Faculty. Look
over the one appropriate for your concentration.
It
should go without saying that the material you place
in your portfolio should be of
good quality since it
represents YOU -- what you can do/ what you know.
Before starting this assignment review the
portfolio evaluation
procedures and the concentration
that will be used to evaluate your major
concentration.
Method:
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Begin by selecting the CATA
Concentration you intend pursue in completing the
major. Save the appropriate Word .doc file
(below) to your
F: drive on the network or to the hard drive of your
home computer. (Right
click on the document you have selected below, click
on “Save target as” when the menu appears and save
the file as you normally would
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Requirements
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NOTE:
The
template
documents
above in
this
table
are in
MS Word
.doc
format. The
most
convenient
way to
work
with
these
forms is
to save
them to
your
account
or
computer
by
clicking
on the
link
with
your
right
mouse
button,
then
clicking
on the
"Save
Target
As" menu
item and
saving
the file
to a
location
of your
choice.
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When you open the document in Word you
will notice that the learning objectives for all
CATA majors and your concentration are listed in the
left-hand column with a description of what kinds of
artifacts are required for each of the four major
learning objectives. To the right of each lettered
objective (II.A., III.B., etc.) is a blank space for
you to write your portfolio documentation plan.
In that blank space, using a black font,
describe
the artifacts or other evidence you have currently or
will complete this semester that you can use to show
you have accomplished the objective well.
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As you work through the learning
objectives you will inevitably find that, for some
objectives, you have not completed some or all of
the projects,
papers or activities necessary to demonstrate you have met
the objective well. In other cases, possible artifacts
you currently have may not seem “good enough” to place
in your public, professional portfolio. In those
cases, write a tentative plan for how you will
arrange in the future to get evidence that you have
fully met the objective.
( A
plan might be something like, “Next semester I will
be taking Argumentation and I will use assignments
in that class to show I know ‘'how
communication influences beliefs, attitudes,
behaviors, policies, and communication/cultural
practices.”) When you write a plan for
gaining evidence in the future,
write in a blue font.
·
If you don’t have a clue as to what to
write, put “TBD” (“to be determined”) in the blank
space and
highlight it in yellow. For each
future "plan to get an artifact" and each “TBD”
on your plan, contact your assigned
CATA faculty Mentor
and ask them to help you construct a plan to
document your success in meeting that objective.
By the end of this semester you should be able to replace all the
TBDs with blue plans.
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SUMMARY of the above: Describe
artifacts and other evidence you have now or
are currently working on that you may use in your
portfolio in black. Describe material you
plan to create in the future and place
in your portfolio in
blue. For objectives you do not yet
know how you will document,
highlight “TBD” in
yellow.
You
will need to SAVE THIS DOCUMENT
when you complete it because it will be your
"roadmap" on how to complete your CATA
Portfolio.
PLEASE NOTE:
Nothing in this assignment is required other
than what is explicitly described above.
Therefore, you do not have to complete
your entire portfolio this semester. You
do not have to place in your portfolio
all the artifacts you list (that is, mention by
name) in your plan. You do not have
to create any web hyperlinks anywhere to
complete the simple list this assignment asks
you to make. For this assignment, you do
not have to write some or all or any of
the reflections statements that will go into
your portfolio prior to graduation.
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You
have not completed this assignment until you
have met with your
CATA Faculty Mentor
AND scheduled an appointment with Professor
McGaan and met with him to discuss your
plan. Your plan does not have to
be perfect or entirely complete when you meet
with your mentor or Dr. McGaan. The point of the meetings is to
clarify things and create a final workable plan.
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If
you do not
complete this assignment satisfactorily you will
FAIL CATA 321.
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