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The Assignments
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A good assignment is one that

• Permits creativity
• Gets me a good grade
• Requires me to think

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Features of assignments in TC310

• Assignments are design challenges
• Ask you to solve a professional problem
• Require coordination with team
• Have some real-world constraints
• Also
• Are scaled to fit one week timeframe
• Students can be successful w/ basic software
  understanding
• Assignments permit creativity

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Thoughts related to assignments
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Submission of Assignments - EPortfolio

• What is E-Portfolio?
• New tool for teaching/learning at UW
• Users can a) collect artifacts, b) reflect on
  artifacts, and c) publish collections in
  portfolios
• Has both class and personal sides
• Use in classes invited portfolios
• Personal use you can create your own portfolios
• Why E-Portfolio?
• Okay reason - Another technology
• Good reason Fits needs for this class,
  artifacts reflection
• Even better reason Personally good for
  students, now AND later.

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Submission of Assignments - EPortfolio

• Demonstration
• Getting there from website
• Walking through the E-Portfolio Tool
• Uploading assignment (artifacts reflection)
• Submitting portfolio for review
• Behind the scenes
• Receiving feedback

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Submission of Assignments - EPortfolio

• Your task Working with a partner, each of you
  should log in to Eportfolio and upload your Word
  document

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Assignments also include debriefing

• Written debriefing consists of
• Executive summary learning reflection
• Submitted through E-Portfolio
• Why a written debriefing?
• Your thoughts?
• Some of my thoughts
• Its not in your title but the story you can
  tell about yourself? Keynote speaker, IPCC
• Importance of being able to engage in
  professional discourse
• Importance of reflection on learning
• What if it feels like BS?

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Debriefing Executive Summary

• What is goal?
• Convince reader that you are professional
• Convince reader that your solution is high
  quality
• What might you include?
• Problem restatement
• Solution description
• Important solution features
• Process description
• Challenges encountered

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Debriefing Learning Reflection

• What is goal?
• Convince me that you learned
• Help you learn
• Practice TC discourse
• What might you include?
• Speak to one or more learning obj
• 1. Use software
• 2. Learn to learn software
• 3. TC quality standards
• 4. Describe design process

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Assignments on weekly cycle

• All assignments are due on Tuesday!
• Class sessions have consistent structure
• Tuesday,
• part 1 Sharing solutions
• part 2 Introduce new assignment, introductory
  tutorials
• Thursday
• More tutorials, time to work on assignment

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Sharing solutions

• What can be gained?
• Software tricks, ideas for solutions, practice
  evaluating solutions, new criteria, strategies