MetaCognitivePortfolio

=Metacognitive and Reflective Practice Portfolio= (proposal in development, 24 Feb 08)

Rationale & mechanics:

Portfolio = Narrative + Exhibits, which include each of the components from the required courses plus optional additions from any other 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). With each update, additions would be made to the narrative. Sometimes, however, the previous narrative will superceded and the old version might become an exhibit to show the student's evolving process.

The portfolio could be assembled as an omnibus word file, as a narrative wikipage with links to uploaded exhibit files (either on a personal wikispace or on this CCT wikispace), or in other forms (e.g., Reflective Practitioners portfolio on a personal website).


 * **Course** || **Assignment that becomes Portfolio Component** ||
 * Critical Thinking || Critical Thinking Manifesto ||
 * Creative Thinking || //under development// ||
 * 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 ||  ||
 * 616, dialogue ||  ||
 * 616, dialogue online ||  ||
 * 618, online (AB) ||  ||
 * 618, online (WC) ||  ||
 * 618, summer || Plan for Practice ||
 * 619, biomed ethics ||  ||
 * 627, anti-racist ed. ||  ||
 * 630, lit & arts || Professional Bio ||
 * 640, environment ||  ||
 * 645, bio in society ||  ||
 * 649, sci & politics || Personal & Professional Development worksheet ||
 * 650, math thinking ||  ||
 * 652, chidren & sci. ||  ||
 * 696, cog. modifiability ||   ||


 * 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