Home | The Project | The Portfolio | The Blueprint

Learning Portfolio Project

The main learning process in this class is via project work and reflection on that work. Specifically, doing something and thinking about it with others and alone. Learning is most effectively accomplished with the help of others. You will be exhibiting your work to the class from your website.

You begin by selecting an area of inquiry and designing a plan to explore and exhibit newfound learning. Play to your strengths and do not leave the hardest work to the last minute. The best work in this class will be from students who embraced the opportunity to learn something new. The project includes these processes not necessarily in this order:

• LEARN
• REFLECT
• CONSTRUCT
• DISCUSS
• EXHIBIT

Creativity, intellectual rigor and innovation are highly valued! Each student will choose an area of inquiry which all course work, with the exception of assigned readings and classroom tutorials, will revolve around. An area of inquiry should be deep and broad enough for a student to demonstrate new learning and provide opportunity for rich exploration and construction. Ideally it should help you explore an area that will help you expand your skills and talents.

Chosen topics should be something relevant to web design. It can involve mastering new software (ex: Dreamweaver, Flash), developing new skills (ex: multimedia), learning new coding (ex: PHP, CSS), or anything else that you have an interest in that is related to web design. You may know something about an area of inquiry or have a significant interest in that topic, but still have room for growth.

All of your work, thoughts, products, logs and discovered digital resources will be assembled in a digital portfolio on the Web. This portfolio is created throughout the term. The learning blueprint must be completed by the deadline. Plan your work, jot down the due dates of your project selections and major milestones in their completion. Include other major obligations that might impinge on your course work from outside this course. Attach a timeline for your course blueprint.

Your learning blueprint should be completed in the first couple weeks of the course. However it must be submitted before midnight PST on 1/31/04 through email. Not submitting the blueprint on or before 1/31/04 will effect the grade.