PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENTS
1. Journal Entry#1: Access computer-based Home Page and Syllabus, word-process response to specific questions, print results.
2. Journal Entry#2: "What Do I Want?": View video ("What Do I Want?"), word-process response to specific questions, print results.
3. Journal Entry#3: Complete Reconnaissance of Course Text, word-process response to specific questions, print results.
4. Journal Entry #4: Complete Personal Profile (see Portfolio) and Part I of Choosing Your Major (see Portfolio).
5. Visit to Student Success Support Center (SSB-142, Angela Weidman), Thursday, September 9, 1999. Complete Discovery Wheel and print results; set-up E-mail account and E-mail your professor; Student Success Support Center on Tuesday, September 21, 1999, complete Choices and print results; In-class Academic Orientation (Francis Hempstead) on Tuesday, October 12, 1999; Student Success Support Center on Thursday, October 14, 1999, complete Cyber Advisor and print results.
6. Journal Entry #5: Aphorism #1: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." (Eleanor Roosevelt); word-process your response and print results.
7. Journal Entry #6: "The 'BUT' Principle": Select ONE of the weaknesses disclosed on your Discovery Wheel and explain the following: (1) the factor(s) which you think may have created or contributed to the weakness you selected; (2) why you think it is so hard for us to face the truth about ourselves; and (3) what specific course of action may actually help you convert the weakness you selected into a strength; word-process your response and print results.
8. Journall Entry #7: Print and complete the following: Scavenger Hunt: West Campus Resources (See Giovanni Scolaro's Homepage on-line).
9. Journal Entry #8: View Les Brown's "You Deserve" on "Motivation"; Select ONE of the ideas presented by Brown and explain how the idea you selected may actually increase your level of motivation; word-process your response and print results.
10. Journal Entry #9: Aphorism #2: "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." (Will Rogers); word-process your response and print results.
11. Journal Entry #10: Select ONE of the distinctions between High and College and explain how your selection can help you succeed academically. Word-process your response and print results.
12. Journal Entry #11: Select ONE of the Classical Values and ONE of the Modern Values of a Higher Education and explain how the values you selected can help you succeed in your academic, personal, and career life. Word-process your response and print results.
13. Journal Entry #12: Write a personal letter to someone in the future (unknown to you) in which you "argue" why the person you selected should give more serious consideration to the quest for a higher education (i.e., college or university). Example: 1 Aimless Circle; Nogoals, Florida 00000; Dear Ima Phailyore, etc. Word-process your response and print results.
14. Journal Entry #13: Select ONE of Valencia's West Campus resources which you recently visited and explain how use of the resource you selected can help you succeed academically. Word-process your response and print results.
15. First Essay Examination (TBA) and First Portfolio Check (TBA).
16. Journal Entry #14: Based on Francis Hempstead's Academic Orientation visit on Tuesday, October 12, 1999 (3-213), cite and explain the required components of your academic track which you must satisfy in order to graduate with an A.A. or A.S. from Valencia College. Word-process your response and print results.
17. Journal Entry #15: Based on the above-referenced presentation by Francis Hempstead, explain the components of Valencia's CURRENT Withdrawl Policy. Word-process your response and print results.
18. Journal Entry #16: Based on your visit to the Student Success Support Center on Thursday, October 14, 1999 for the purpose of completing the Cyber Advisor on-line program as a required component of this course, print and provide a list of courses you have decided to take as a student in future academic sessions of the college.
19. Journal Entry #17: Complete on-line Goals Planning Exercises and begin work on your Goals Paper. Print results and provide a copy of your Goals Planning Exercises ONLY.
20. Goals Paper Due (TBA).
21. Complete Personality and Learning Styles Inventories on-line or in course text as specified by the Professor. Print and/or provide results of same.
THE ABOVE ASSIGNMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO REVISION AND ARE INCOMPLETE