Migration & Culture     Spring 2005    Prof Koptiuch    Arizona State University West    Phoenix, Arizona



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WEB PORTFOLIO MARATHON

LAST TWO CLASSES—MAY 4 & 11, 2005

MEETING PLACE: Computer Lab CLCC 170

Our course home page: http://westinfo.west.asu.edu/classweb/koptiuch/Mig2005/

We will finalize our web portfolios on the last two days of class. You should have no trouble completing your web pages in class as long as you are ready--Your job is to have everything ‘ready to go’!

 

·        Bring everything you’ll need on CD or flash drive, or place files in your Blackboard Digital Drop Box, or place files in your website folderdo this prior to class!

·        We WILL run out of time!! Plan ahead!!

 

·        PROJECT TEXTS should be READY TO GO: revised, cleaned up, proofed

o       Title your commentaries; a title makes the best link from your index page

o       A helpful touch is to prepare a brief introductory comment for your index page that lets the reader know what each linked piece is about (optional but encouraged).

 

·        SELECT PHOTOS, IMAGES, MAPS in advance to enliven each of your web pages!

o       No time to choose photos in the lab—best to know your selection before hand

o       To get photos from our web photo gallery: “copy” the large size to a disk or storage device

o       If you use your own photos (digital or scanned), please make sure to size them properly using Photoshop Elements (remember: use resolution 72 pixels)

o       AVOID CLIP ART—our photos are so much more interesting!

o       USE ONLY .JPG OR .GIF files for images—others do not work cross-platform (e.g. may not work on Mac computers, or may not work using other web browsers)

 

·        DESIGN—give some thought to how you want to design your page (layout, colors, font). Please keep it simple—we will not have time to do much fancy stuff!

 

Reminder: First Step is to Map your drive on our course web server site:

·        Right-click on MyComputer; Map Network Drive: \\westinfo.west.ad.asu.edu\classweb\koptiuch\Mig2005

Check Sheet for Your Web Portfolio: (be sure to change titles on you index page)

         1. Bio—your own personal biographical information; include your photo; can be whatever you like!

         2. Family Migration Object & brief—remember to scan or photograph your object! Include your brief explaining the meaning of this object to your family’s memory of migration.

         3. Im/migrant Agency brief—ideally, you should include the questions you answered along with the info you researched about your agency (assignment sheet available on BB) 

         4. Borderlinks brief—your report on our Nogales fieldtrip.  Be sure to add a photo or two!

         5. Country Poster—“Why Migration” Country Team Poster—link to the web version of your powerpoint, and add photos of your poster from our photo gallery. If time, it is really nice to include some of your own comments to go along with this—like a brief intro.

         6. Migrants in the City—your brief and image(s) from this mini-presentation

         7. Crossing the Valley Project—the centerpiece of your portfolio, based on your migrant interview. Don’t forget to analyze your case by grounding your discussion in our study of migration concepts, patterns, & processes. Make the analysis part of your web presentation. Must include minimum of five relevant references from our course readings, in addition to other sources.

         8. Open Letter—(1-2 pages) wrap-up comment addressed to Valley residents, reflecting on what you have learned throughout our course.  Highlight one or two key reflective points that you would like your readers to consider in order to develop a fuller, more complex understanding of migration. You can be creative here—e.g. write your letter in the form of an imaginary conversation between a Border Patrol officer and an un/documented immigrant…

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