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Use e-Folio in Online Freshmen Composition Classes Professor Xiao Wang effectively uses e-Folio in her online composition courses for Freshmen students. She presents at the 60th Convention on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco, March of 2009. The 1st screenshot below shows the home page of Professor Wang's fully-on-line ENC 1101 class, of which e-folio is the major component. E-folio examplifies Professor Wang's phylosiphy of teaching Composition. First, the use of e-folio encourages her students to look at writing as a process, going through drafts after drafts before they turn in that final version of their essay for a grade. E-folio also teaches her students to be organized, saving all the invention activities such as clustering, freewriting, and outlining, drafts, and the final version in seven well-organized folders. E-folio is 10% of the class grade, which included five chapters for all five essays, peer review chapter, and Smarthinking.
The 2nd screenshot is the table of content of the e-folio that highlights all seven folders. The 3rd screenshot below is an exmple of an e-folio containing seven folders.
The 4th screenshot below is an example of the content in each individual folder for each essay.
The last screenshot below is an example of a Smarthnking.com comments on one of the student's essays. Students are required to send their third draft to Smarthinking.com for feedback, to revise their essays based on the comments, and to include all five Mark-ups in the e-folio to be turned in at the end of the term.
Below is the final exam prompt in which the students are asked to analyze their e-folio. Final Examination--Portfolio Analysis Reflecting on all of your five essay drafts, revisions, and final revisions, your freewritings, and peer review sheets, essay analysis, write an analysis essay in which you reflect upon the work you have done this term. This essay should be written in the form of a letter that is addressed to your English professor Monday, August 04, 2008 Dear Dr. Wang: Your essay Introduction (thesis with four points) Body paragraphs (with four paragraphs) Sincerely yours Your name This essay will be judged upon:
You may use the following questions to provoke thoughts and ideas; however, you are not obliged to answer all of the questions. Choose the ones which you are interested in and which you have a lot to say about.
===================================================================== Professor Xiao Wang can be reached by email xwang@broward.edu Instructional Technology |
