Reflective Introduction of Portfolio

ePortfolio Instructions, Checklist, and Due Dates: First Draft Reflective Introduction, Due: Friday, August 21st Final ePortfolio, Due: Friday, August 28th (last day of class) Assignment: Your ePortfolio will not only show your learning over the quarter through the artifacts of your engagement in assignments, drafting, discussions, critical reading, planning, groupwork, etc., it will also serve as a home for your assessment of all these activities.

These moments of reflection of your learning across the time span of the quarter will help you to step away and take a larger view of them, connect the experiences to one another, and consider their collective meaning. This type of self-reflection asks you to become an active participant in your own learning–you are making meaning from somewhat isolated and possibly disjointed learning experiences.

The desired outcomes for ePortfolio pedagogy are to connect you to how you work as a learner so that you might reconsider long-held ideas about yourself and the world, be aware of your own and others intellectual growth, and visualize and plan for potential learning obstacles in the future.

The reflective elements of your ePortfolio work this quarter will center around the successes and obstacles of engaging with the course material, understanding how you fit into the give and take of group building and action planning, and how you see yourself as a person interacting within your own life and the greater world at this moment in the time of pandemic and protest against status quo violence against people of color and embedded white supremacy.

Your ePortfolio should contain the following:   Reflective Introduction Final Annotated Bibliography Final Autobiography/Biography Final Group Prison Coalition Project Reading Assessments Self-Assessments Any additional artifacts that you believe show your work, growth, and investigative journey this quarter, either inside or outside of the class.

The Reflective Introduction is:

1)  A 1000-word minimum (no maximum) piece of writing that tells a cohesive, flowing, thesis driven narrative of your learning this quarter through text and multimodality.

2)  A deep and complex assessment of your research, critical reading, writing, and collaboration over the course of the class.

3)  An unpacking of your relationship to sources, to the issues you investigated, the multiple genres you worked in, and your life right during multiple intersecting

4)  Thoroughly edited, with attention paid to grammar and sentence level clarity.

Guiding Questions and Prompts for Reflective Introduction: You may build onto and deepen your earlier self-assessments as a way into a longer, crafted introduction for your ePortfolio if you want, or develop a structure for the reflective intro that comes from your own organic understanding of your learning this quarter. Here are some other ideas to explore: How has your research journey deepened your understanding of prison abolition or any other social justice issue that you’ve investigated this quarter?

What have you learned about yourself as a researcher, your relationship to specific sources, or to information/genre literacy? Assess your relationship to the idea of community. Describe your experience with collaboration this quarter. Did you have any breakthroughs/thoughts about group work, solo work, and/or the experience of isolated pandemic learning this summer? Describe and unpack your experience exploring and inhabiting multiple different genres. What genre pushed you to explore the contextualization of historical context and your place in the world?