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Requirements for Self Evaluation
Information Networks
EDCI 4993-603, Spring 2002

Due before Wednesday May 9

This will be a two page maximum, multi-media electronic document, detailing your work for this class. This will be a hyper-text document that explains and links together the artifacts of your work. Done properly, this is an electronic portfolio of the work you did in this class, and can be a great advertisement of your technology skills.

This is NOT an instructor graded assignment. It does serve to document and demonstrate your "Advanced Information Network" skills.

There are two parts to your final assingment. Do your best work. Write this as if it were a "serious hypertext" essay -- a multi-media, hyperlinked short composition presenting the personal view of the author.

Part 1. Portfolio

This is a self-graded exercise and is worth 200 points towards your final grade in this class. You should invest some time in composing this document.

This is a two page maximum document that explains to others the work you accomplished in this class. It will contain four (4) sections, one section for each exam and one section for each book review. You are to briefly relate the work you personally completed to satisfy each of these course requirements. It is suggested that you include web links to materials that are examples of your work, or to web sites that were helpful to you. You may include images or pictures -- multimedia. Your "multimedia document" will become part of your web site for this class. The turn-in for Part 1 is an eMail to George ... with your multi-media document attached. George will convert it to webpages and post it to our class's (currently empty) web site. When it is complete, I will eMail everyone the URL so you can check it out!!!

Examples of Portfolio docuemnts from past classes can be found here and here. Visit individual web sites and follow the link to "What we did."

Part 2. Self-evaluation

Here you will assign yourself a final grade in our class. You should already have grades for all the instructor-graded exams and book reviews. This final part provides you with an opportunity to evaluate your overall class performance. On one page, please give yourself a grade [using the point values] for each area of evaluation listed below (and as shown in the syllabus). Using the scale below assign yourself a final grade.

Provide a brief rationale to justify your final grade -- indicate how your grade reflects what you learned in class. The evaluation and grading scale are part of our syllabus.

Example

IG - indicates Instructor Graded.

My points earned in this class are as follows:

200 of 200 points - Two Book Reviews IG

200 of 200 points - Exam 1 & 2 IG color="#FF0000">IG

190 of 200 points - Exam 3 & 4 IG

90 of 100 points - Class Participation

100 of 100 points - Timely completion of assignments. Assess -10 points each time you turned-in any class assignment after its due date. Everyone please give yourseld full credit (100 points) for this part, since everyone has already docked for late assignments.

200 of 200 points - Portfolio and Self-evaluation

2 absences, 1 excused.

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950 -- my final grade is A ... using the grading scale in the syllabus. Note that your portfolio document (above) serves as your justification for your final grade in this class. Also, as explained at the beginning of classes, more than 2 unexcused absences automatically result in a grade of (D). Additional absences result in a grade of (F) unless an agreement is reached on how the work missed can be completed quickly.

The turn-in for Part 2 is an eMail message to George that includes the entire text as part of your eMail message.