Production 1: Power Up

Set-up your Website/Digital Portfolio

Set up your website using a free website-maker like Wix, Weebly or WordPress, etc. (lately, students have indicated that WordPress has become more challenging). You will use this site as your course portfolio to host your critical reflections and/or creative artefacts (productions).

If you have questions, seek out the plentiful online support resources and support communities. Or contact your instructor!

Expectations

• Carefully select a design template to showcase your course work.
• Consider design elements (personalize your site; remove extraneous ‘widgets’ or pages; clear out or replace ‘stock’ ‘place-holder’ text and images).
• Menu: Set up a page/post structure for your weekly intellectual productions.
• Menus: Set up a resource page to curate links, media tools, articles, images, etc, you find interesting for future use.
• 350 Words Post on your site: Reflecting on process: Reflect (and document) how you learn as you create/build your site. How are you interacting with the tools and interfaces? How does the site provide ‘feedback’ and/or support learning and accomplishing goals? What immediate local or online social & community resources are you consulting? Please document interactions and problem solving decisions and how you feel during the process and varying stages of making  (e.g, frustration? interest? pleasure? curiosity? satisfaction?, etc). Is there some kind of AI support (how does it work or fail to work, if you use it)?
  
• Compare/Contrast: How was this learning experience different – or similar – from other ways you learn (in or outside of schools)?
• Take some screen-shot images that document your process and include (upload to page) as part of your analysis.
• Publish your reflection or process – on what and how you learned as your first (production 1) page or post. Around 350 words.

2. Send Link: Once you have set up your site, send me an email – kthumlert@edu.yorku.ca – with a link to your website.

Privacy Concerns: If you elect to password protect your website, please remember to send me the password. You can also toggle a setting so Google or other search engines will not index your site.

Due Date: By Start of Class 2