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 and First Portfolio Check: Tuesday, November 2, 1999. Please consult the 4 Portfolio criteria listed on-line. Also, print out the Portfolio check-list and place it in the front inside pocket of your Portfolio on the above date.
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.
22. Journal Entry #18: Based on your Barsch results, explain the conditions under which you learn best. Support your statements with an example.
23. Journal Entry #19: Based on your Kolb results, explain the characteristics of your learning style quadrant. Also, select a quadrant outside of your own and explain how you could possibly benefit as a learner by embracing some of the characteristics of another learning style different than your own.
24. Journal Enrty #20: Based on your haleonline Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory results, explain how you learn based on your own unique personality type.
25. Complete the online Interactive Time Chart and print results. Also, read the section of the course text on "Time Management".
26. Journal Entry #21: Based on the results of your Interactive Time Chart, explain what it discloses about your use of time and waht you can do to improve.
THE ABOVE ASSIGNMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO REVISION AND ARE INCOMPLETE