Jeremy's Metacognitive and Reflective Practice Portfolio

(proposal in development, 29 Jan 08)

Rationale & mechanics:

Portfolio = Narrative + Exhibits, which include each of the components from the required courses plus optional additions from any course. The narrative may well weave in excerpts from the exhibits.
The portfolio should be updated each semester or two (depending on how quickly the student is moving through the program). Additions would be made to the narrative, except that sometimes the previous narrative will superceded with the old version becomeing an exhibit of the evolving process.

Course	Portfolio Component
Critical Thinking	Critical Thinking Manifesto
Creative Thinking	Final Reflective Essay
Philosophy	under development
Cognitive Psychology	General Principles Journal
Processes of Research & Engagement	Self-assessment in relation to 10+10 goals
Action Research	Process review based on Personal/Professional Development Wikipages
Synthesis	Excerpts from the synthesis itself, plus exit Self-assessment in relation to 20 goals

Elective	Optional addition to Portfolio
611, PBL
612, humor theme	Humor Journal
616, dialogue	Final Project: Dialogue in Action
616, dialogue online
618, online (AB)
618, online (WC)
618, summer	Final Project: Plan for Practice
619, biomed ethics
627, anti-racist ed.
630, lit & arts
640, environment
645, bio in society
649, sci & politics
650, math thinking
652, chidren & sci.
696, cog. modifiability

Notes on the process of creating this page:

• seems to be relatively straightforward to copy the template page onto a new page when getting started, but it does help to have some level of comfort with copying and pasting between two different web pages; it seems possible that a person might lose his or her place in the process of moving between windows
• when uploading files onto the wikispace, we should develop a very solid file naming convention in which all of the files start with some kind of unique identifier (such as the person's first initial followed by last name - e.g. I used filenames starting with jszteiter-...); because there are so many files already in the space, this can easily get out of hand
• when using the file tool on the toolbar to link files to the page, we should keep in mind that the tool allows one to browse files by icon, which does not allow the full file name to be visible; people need to be aware of how to hover their mouse over the icon so that full filename appears as a little popup on the mouse pointer
• when using the file tool to select a file, people should note that there is a default choice to "insert the file" into the page, which causes the icon to appear on the page along with the full file name, while the "link file" option does not show the icon but creates a link where the label of the link can be any text, not just the file name itself - of course, it requires using the text editor rather than the visual editor to edit the link label; I did it this way above without much trouble; still, we might want to steer people toward using the "insert file" option to save the trouble of the link while also having a visual way to tell the format of the file
• a show-and-tell of this should probably be worked in to all CCT orientations, in addition to any more general wiki introductions that are given