Taking a Bite in the Middle: Implementing Digital Portfolios in FYC Courses

Taking a Bite

in the Middle

Chris Friend (@chris_friend)

University of Central Florida

Debate Over Delivery

Student Portfolio

What Students Knowthink they

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Features of Word**or pretty much any document editor these days

• Automated page numbering

• Automated tables of contents

• Formatting styles

• Comments & Document metadata

• Hyperlinks

• Master Documents

5 SkillsStudentsWouldLearn

1Rely on styles.

Consistency

Machine- readability

2Track sources.• External References

• Peer contributions

What we could see

[The image of peer-reviewed work with comments from multiple students has been omitted from this copy of the presentation out of respect for the students’ privacy.]

Image showed multi-colored commentary and highlighted changes to emphasize the

conversation around—and work behind—the text, rather than only the text itself.

3Use hyperlinks.

sources (Coleman 383).

Coleman, Anita. "Instruments of Cognition: Use of Citations and Web Links in Online Teaching Materials." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56.4 (2005): 382-392. Web.

Within a document

To other documents

4Add metadata.

Possible Tags• Authors’ contact info

• Project details

• Keywords

What if…?

5Convert files.

1.Rely on styles2.Track sources3.Use hyperlinks4.Add metadata5.Convert files

The Bytein theMiddle

Thank You

Chris Friend (@chris_friend)University of Central Florida

Gratitude: Visual Credits

• Color palette (“undecided”) by Tzadkiel on colourlovers.com

• Title slide image (“C is for Coronary”) by somegeekintn on Flickr

• File cabinet & address bar courtesy Microsoft

• Hammer and bent nail courtesy Microsoft

• Metal letterpress by nutmeg66 on Flickr

• Chips and silicon courtesy of Microsoft

• Recycle tag courtesy Microsoft

• Notes, Pages, and Photos app icons from Apple; PDF icon from Adobe, Word icon from Microsoft, and OpenOffice icon from Apache. All were used completely without permission. Oops.

• Cookie bite from Lara604 on Flickr