Requirements for the "Senior Portfolio Review"

Due date:  December 3, 2008 or earlier as you prefer.  ( Due means on your portfolio web site -  Email me when your portfolio is ready for review. )

Assignment:  You must complete all portions of your CATA Professional Portfolio by the end of the semester.  In order to receive a grade on the Senior Portfolio Review in CATA 421, 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 and make it clear your are a graduating senior.  This page should serve as an introduction to your portfolio and to you as a potential professional in Communication and/or Theatre Arts.  The design and content are entirely open but your goal is to make a good, professional, first impression.
 

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

   4.  You must have a completed format for your "Objectives" page.  This is the "front page" of your effort to document how you have achieved the goals of your CATA major.  A correctly formatted "objectives" page will show clearly how you provide links (to reflection statements and artifacts) for EACH of the 7 goal sections in your concentration.  The points below identify what a "correctly formatted "Objectives" page is.

• The "Objectives" page needs to provide an overview of what the process of documenting competencies is all about for readers who may not be familiar with the CATA Portfolio requirement. 

• It should include a link to the CATA Major Learning Outcomes document.

• It should be organized in a way that makes it easy for the reader to see what portfolio requirements you are reflecting on.

• It must include links to all seven reflection statements and at least fourteen artifacts.

   5.  For each of the seven goal section pages in your portfolio, you will have "Reflections" that describes how you have met that general goal.  

• On each of the seven reflection statement pages should be links (on the right) to the artifacts required in the CATA learning goals (or in the few cases for which you do not yet have the artifact saved to your portfolio you will list the names of the artifacts without the link). 

• You should have reflection statements dealing with each artifact linked on each reflections page by the time of your senior review.  [ It is the reflection statement that illustrates your mastery of the goal.]  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. 

• The reflection statements that appear in your portfolio do not have to be in final form, but you must have something written reflecting on each artifact linked and saved to your portfolio at the time I do the senior review for COMM 421.  I will not grade the content of the reflections at this time (that will happen in February), but I will check to see if there are reflections dealing with each artifact

• The artifacts themselves should be displayed in a "new window."

For an acceptable "Senior Portfolio" you should include Reflection Statements on each of the seven goals pages (even if every reflection statement is not complete or final) for your CATA major concentration and include links to at least fourteen artifacts  (but not necessarily 14 different artifacts) that are present in your portfolio (not on your F: drive or home computer).