[OFF] Teaching: portfolios?

[Mai Kuha]

What a great idea for an item to include in a portfolio. Especially in the
case of this group, the autobiographies would be very interesting reading
for me, in addition to giving students the opportunity to relate just
about all the course content to their own experience.

Several people on teach-ling sent me descriptions of how they've used
portfolios in linguistics classes, comments on what kind of course they're
best suited for, potential pitfalls, and detailed suggestions for
guidelines to give students. One person has her students do a multimedia
"scrapbook of language artifacts"! Depending on how much more discussion
there is on teach-ling, I can either summarize or get permission to
forward messages, so if anyone here is interested, maybe the best approach
would be to let me know off-list.

-Mai

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Tim Frazer wrote:

> This is for Mai:  How about linguistic autobiographies?  Where they talk
> about their experiences with language variation == comments on their own
> dialect or language, encounters with others.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mai Kuha <mkuha at BSUVC.BSU.EDU>
>
> > This semester, it turned out that many students in my 200-level Language
> > in Society class are seniors, postgraduates ...
> >... I'm wondering about having them assemble portfolios. I've
> > never tried that before. Does anyone have any words of advice, especially
> > on guidelines to provide and how to grade them?

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Mai Kuha                  mkuha at bsuvc.bsu.edu
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Ball State University