[OFF] Teaching: portfolios?

[Tim Frazer]

How can I get on teach-ling?  Sorry to send this to everyone; I can't get
indivuidual addressses off this list.

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From: Mai Kuha <mkuha at BSUVC.BSU.EDU>
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Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [OFF] Teaching: portfolios?


> 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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