Writing IVc Exams (2008.01.30)

The slide show embedded in this post presents the final exam for Writing IVc, sections one and two, on January 30, 2008:

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The Writing Studio Blog post on which you should comment for Task One is here:

Reflections on Blog Portfolio Development
(2008.01.30)

Task Two calls for you to make an original post on your own blog during the exam period.

Exam periods are only one hour long (thirty minutes shorter than regular class meetings), so use the available time wisely. If you have questions about the exam or the slide show, please ask them in comments on this post.

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Reflections on Blog Portfolio Development

A final task for Writing IVc is to share your thoughts about the development of a blog writing portfolio fall semester, based on the two proto-portfolio elements posted in October and November, and then incorporated into the complete template posted here at the beginning of January (Portfolio: Writing IVc, 2008.01.06).

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Please post your thoughts about portfolio development in an original comment on this post during the final meeting on January 30, 2008. Your comment should include both negative and positive aspects of your experience using a blog to develop a writing portfolio.

Complete explanations are better than short ones. The more details and examples that you provide, the better. Follow-up comments later will be welcome, too.

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"To Blog or Not to Blog" (mauritsfondse, 2007)

Here is an immensely entertaining music video about blogging:

(mauritsfondse, July 13, 2007)

Thanks to Evelyn for pointing it out in Blogging for Educators 2008, message 491 (January 23, 2008)!

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Fall Semester PFs: Buff&Shine-04 (§§2.1, ff.)

In §§2.1-2.4.2.2 of your portfolios, it is crucial for you to distinguish between evaluations of comments and "Qualities of comments**" (Writing IVc: Portfolio [template], January 6, 2008).

Though many of your portfolios list evaluative terms such as "good" or "nice", those terms miss the point, because they fail to describe the qualities of the comments that you've given or received on fall semester blog posts.

The notes that you provide in the "Qualities of comments**" column of your portfolios (§§2.1-2.4.2.2) should describe how or explain why you think certain comments are good.

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Fall Semester PFs: Buff&Shine-03!!!

Both monthly and total word counts in §0.0 of your portfolios should include the words that you've written in your essays.

I've come across two portfolios that clearly didn't include essays in §0.0 word counts. The total number of words listed for essays in §1.1 exceeded word counts in §0.0, which should include the words in ALL of the posts that you've made during fall semester.

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