Speaking+Portfolio+Presentation

A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits the student's efforts, progress, and achievements in one or more areas of the curriculum. The collection must include the following: · Student participation in selecting contents. · Criteria for selection. · Criteria for judging merits. · Evidence of a student's self-reflection. It should represent a collection of students' best work or best efforts, student-selected samples of work experiences related to outcomes being assessed, and documents according growth and development toward mastering identified outcomes. Paulson, F.L. Paulson, P.R. and Meyer, CA. (1991, February). "What Makes a Portfolio a Portfolio?" //Educational Leadership//, pp. 60-63.
 * What is a Portfolio? **

The speaking portfolio is essentially your wikispace, which has documented all of your work in the course thus far. Your portfolio presentation is a multimedia-aided explanation of carefully selected aspects of your wikispace in relation to the 004 Listening & Speaking learning outcomes and your individual goals. Using your skills checklist and goals assessments, you should provide rationale for the aspects of your wikispace upon which you have chosen to focus and reflection on your progress toward your goals. The wikispace components you choose should function as explicit evidence supporting your statements. For example, if you say that you have learned how to use a variety of discourse markers in formal presentations, you should support that claim with a clip from one of your presentations that shows this. //You// are the subject of this presentation. Pay special attention to yourself as a speaker in general and to your learning process in particular. Focus on what you have accomplished and the skills and strategies you developed in order to make these accomplishments. Discuss how you think your listening and speaking skills are related and how they may have developed or changed over the course of semester. Discuss the meaning and value of each component selected, and the relation of the pieces to one another. You should also consider areas for improvement and elaborate on what you could do in the future to facilitate improvement in these areas. The speaking portfolio is not an evaluation of the course, but a thorough and thoughtful evaluation of and reflection on your progress toward specific learner outcomes and individual goals.
 * Speaking Portfolio Presentation **

Your presentation should be between 20-25 minutes in length and should follow all previously learned guidelines for formal presentations, particularly those regarding preparation, organization, communicative effect, audience awareness and register. Your audience for this presentation is your instructor and your peers, with whom you have worked for months; therefore, you may use a less-formal register than you have used in previous presentations. This presentation should be an honest conversation with yourself and your peers regarding what you have learned and accomplished this semester.
 * Presentation Guidelines**