Welcome!
My name is Joe Student, and I have built this Webfolio as a school
project in Spring 2006 at Rich Central High School in Olympia Fields,
located in south suburban Chicago, Illinois.
This Webfolio and
those of my classmates are the culminating projects of
a grant called the "Cyber Clinical Workshop" which ran
from March to May in 2006. The purpose of the Webfolio is to show
the learning I did on the topic of challenges, successes, and failures.
Each student in my class was given a choice of what area to investigate:
challenges, successes, or failures, all in terms of a particular
person's story. I chose "challenges"—in
particular the challenges of my younger brother who was born with
spina bifida and has endured many surgeries and difficulties [change
this sentence to make the description appropriate for your project].
I have conducted much research (or "I-search") on the
topic and have written many reflections on it. In addition, my classmates
have collected and produced varied research on the topics of challenges,
successes, and failures—and, together as a group, we have
edited one another's projects and have in instances connected projects,
where such connections seemed to make sense.
In addition to producing a class-wide collection of stories and
refelctions on "challenges, successess, and failures,"
we have tried to approach "school" according to a new
workshop model. Each day we would come to class and get to work
on our individual and group projects. We made lists of new words
and skills we learned, we brainstormed ways to conduct interviews
and I-searches, we peer edited projects, and, of course we read
and wrote—all facilitated by a class set of laptop computers
that were purchased in connection with the grant project.
All of our efforts are documented here in this Webfolio. The right
column of this page is divided into five sets of links:
- My Projects: These links take you to the major
final assingments of the project.
- Connections: These links point to various types
of connections I made in the study of the topic of "challenges."
- My Group: These links take you to various workshop
activities I completed with my group in thinking through and creating
my final projects.
- My Learning: These links show various ways
I monitored and recorded my learning processes involved in producing
my final projects.
- Webfolio Help: These links point to resources
that helped me learn the FTP and other processes involved in building
and maintaining a Web site.
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