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Planning to Document COMM Major
Objectives
Read this assignment
page. Read it ALL. Follow the
directions.
Due date: Assignment due
Thursday, October 20, at 2pm (by email).
You certainly may submit your plan early; in fact, I
recommend you do.
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 COMM Electronic
Portfolio. The purpose of the assignment is to
insure:
1) that you understand the COMM 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 COMM 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 is a guide with ideas for artifacts you might
use, created by the COMM Faculty. Look over it
for ideas but remember -- list is not a complete
list. You can use materials that you created
out-side of COMM classes (e.g. gen. ed. classes,
internships, jobs, etc.)
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Communication
Major Artifact Guide
for COMM Portfolios (.pdf file)
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
standards
that will be used to evaluate your major
concentration.
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Steps in completing this assignment:
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Begin by selecting the COMM
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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Use THIS
form for
completing
the
assignment!! |
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NOTE:
The
template
document
above in
this
table is
in
MS Word
.doc
format
(or in
the form
of an
rtf
document
suitable
for use
with a
variety
of
wordprocessing
software). 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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· Use
the form linked above to complete this assignment.
Do not make up your own form. Do not
type up a list of assignments in a blank file.
Use the form linked above
and nothing else for complete this assignment.
List artifacts you will use in the space provided
(see below) on the form linked above. Do not turn in
anything for this assignment that is not using the
form linked above. If you do not understand
how to use the correct form for this assignment, see
me.
When you open the
form in MS Word you will notice that the learning
objectives for all COMM 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. In the column to the right of the
described requirements for each of the four
objectives sections is a blank space for
you to type in your portfolio documentation plan --
that is A LIST OF THE NAMES OF ARTIFACTS YOU WILL
USE.
In that blank space,
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 the name of an artifact that you expect
to complete or obtain in the future to
use as evidence that you have
met the objective's requirement.
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If you don’t have a clue as to what to
write for a particular requirement, put “TBD”
(“to be determined”) in the blank space.
For each “TBD”
in your plan, contact your assigned
COMM
Faculty Portfolio Mentor
and ask them to help you construct a plan to
get an artifact to meet that reuqirement.
By the end of this semester you should be able to replace all the
TBDs with planned
items.
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SUMMARY of the above:
List artifacts you have now or
are currently working on that you may use in your
portfolio in the appropriate section.
Similarly, describe material you
plan to create in the future and place
in your portfolio.
For objectives you do not yet
know how you will document,
list “TBD.” Your
portfolio mentor and I will help you figure out what
to use in those places where you list "TBD." At the
end of your meeting with your portfolio mentor, have
him/her sign the assignment as proof of your meeting
and conversation
You
will need to SAVE THIS DOCUMENT
when you complete it because it will be your
"roadmap" on how to complete your COMM
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 order to
complete this assignment. You do not have
to create any web hyperlinks anywhere to
complete the simple list that 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
COMM
Faculty Portfolio Mentor AND met with Professor
McGaan 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
COMM 321.
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