What did customize on your layout?

What changes did you make to your blog layout? Leave a comment on this post and let me know one or two changes you made to your blog layout.

Revising Your Project Idea

How can I revise my project idea according to the rubric?

Based on your project reflection worksheets, go back into your project idea and make sure you are addressing all of the worksheet questions in your project statement. Also, look over the project rubric again and try and address the standards in your project statement. Does your project reflect perspective, analysis, connections, imagination, and commitment?  

When you have finished updating your project idea, please read over your feedback partner's project idea by visiting their blog and posting a comment. Please try and help your partner clarify their idea with ideas, questions, or suggestions.

If you have not signed up for an academic gmail address yet, do so now at gmail.com and then visit blogger.com and sign up for a digital portfolio blog.  

First Blog Posts

Today we are going to add our first blog posts. Your first post will be your personal introduction. The introduction is saved in your sent mail in Gmail or I can email it back to you at your new Gmail address. Before you post your introduction, forward the email to your new feedback partner, who will review the introduction for grammar and spelling errors and then send it back to you with any corrections or changes.

• Copy the introduction and paste it into the body of your first blog post.
• Title the post "Introduction" and click Publish Post beneath the editing window.
  

After you post your introduction, your second blog post will be your initial project idea. Please make sure you type your project idea in the form of a statement and not just a list. For example,

In digital portfolio I would like to create a short video about crime in the community. I am very interested in pursuing a career in criminal justice or forensic science like on CSI. I would like to interview a police officer, a college admissions counselor, a student at John Jay on video. I will conduct research about crime in Brooklyn and present the facts and the opinions of people I interview in the video. The project connects to science and government, as well as my own career interest in being a police detective or crime scene investigator. I also hope to learn more about shooting video and editing it on the computer.

• Type up your project ideas from yesterday and post them under the title "Initial Project Idea".
• When you have finished your post, send the link to your feedback partner's email address.
• Visit your feedback partner's blog and leave a comment with your thoughts and ideas about their initial project ideas. Do the projects seem realistic? Do you think it's appropriate for a portfolio? Does it seem important?