Due: June 19 (11:59PM)
Note: We have three peer groups for ePortfolio review work:
- Hufflepuff (Reegan, Meredith, Cameron, Lauren, Andrew);
- Ravenclaw (Kimberly, Maggy, Lindsay, Meganl);
- Gryffindor (Megano, Peyton, Michael, Sarah, Zoe).
For those of us caught up on the ePortfolio work, roll forward! If you have fallen behind on the ePortfolio work, you must now play catch up or risk not getting peer feedback that helps you strengthen your work heading into the final week of the term! (Most of us should have pretty darned good looking ePortfolios at this point. For the record, I’m seriously impressed, and you should be as well. In just a few weeks, many of you have built out a website from next to nothing – or actually from nothing.)
Your Two Major Tasks
- 1-1.5 HOURS. Revisit your content, links decisions, and reflective framing of the content you’re presenting. Hopefully, you’ve already done great work here. (I recommend working on this task in the first half of the week – M-TH)
- 1-1.5 HOURS. Provide helpful, constructive criticism for each group members’ ePortfolio. You’ve read Krug, analyzed some other websites, and can click around the ePortfolio. Don’t start this task until after 12PM – noon – on Thursday to give peers time to make progress on their ePortfolios. Find a topic for each student in your relevant discussion Forum (see Hogwarts house assignments above).
TASK ONE – WORK ON EPORTFOLIO (SEE EPORTFOLIO SAMPLE FOR GUIDANCE)
- After reading Krug and analyzing some websites, you may have a sense that your presentation of aspects of your ePortfolio could use some work. Hopefully, the content itself is more or less in good shape.
- Go back and take a good look at those navigation decisions you’ve made to help your reader get to the content. We don’t want confusing navigation, and we don’t want to get lost.
- Go back and look at the writing you’ve done to frame your content, explain what we’re getting, etc. At least some of this text should be skimmable.
TASK TWO – EPORTFOLIO PEER REVIEW
- Head into your relevant peer group’s forum:
- Hufflepuff (Reegan, Meredith, Cameron, Lauren, Andrew);
- Ravenclaw (Kimberly, Maggy, Lindsay, Meganl);
- Gryffindor (Megano, Peyton, Michael, Sarah, Zoe).
- In each forum, find a topic for EACH group member. This is where members will write their feedback/suggestions/critique of each peer’s ePortfolio. (Please use Guidelines Below.)
- Provide written feedback by the due date.
Peer Review Guidelines (Take 10-15 minutes per peer)
Your job is to be the web visitor for your peers’ ePortfolios. A second/third/fourth/fifth set of eyes can really be helpful when one is trying to build a website with more than a couple pages. I don’t want to limit your feedback to the following aspects of the ePortfolios, but I do want you to look at and comment on each of the aspects.
You’ve already done a little of this work for your peers by completing the Reading/Discussion/Other questions and Replying to peers on the “Krug and Your ePortfolio” topic.
- Home page. Is it engaging? Does the author personalize it in a way that invites one in and shows personality? Do you find “default” text or filler/placeholder stuff left over from the original Theme? Look in the footer, the sidebar, the header, etc. An ePortfolio can’t be personalized if things are at “default” settings. What, specifically, might you suggest the author think about? (1-2 thoughts. These are not directives, so it’s ok to just suggest things.)
- Links. Push the buttons. Try to break things. Do all the links work? Do they take you to real pages with real content? This shouldn’t take that long to do, but you should be able to get all over the author’s site. See a problem? Have a question? Name it/them! If it is 100% good, say so.
- Course Pages. There should be a lot of pages in the ePortfolios, especially with all the DS106 assignment pages. Start at the “top” and read whatever the peer has as Course 1, Course 2, Course 3, and WRT 304 pages. Do you find what you’re supposed to find: An engaging write-up of the course; official course description; links to the chosen sample(s); framing of the work sample(s), either on the Course pages OR on the Samples pages. Name what you notice. (The biggest problems, truly, are likely to involve clumsy integration of – or navigation to – work samples.) Offer at least 2 suggestions.
- Resume. You’re not a resume expert, and I don’t expect you to become one. But I do want you to read through the resume and look for the following: online resume content; a link to a pdf version of a resume. Along the way, if you find typos, things that seem confusing or odd, or something else, say something!