Planning tool distributed to participants in the 2015 AAEEBL pre-conference workshop titled "Using Eportfolio as a Multimodal Project Platform"

1. Multimodal Project Title

2. Multimodal Project Title
Assignment Purpose & Goals
What do you want to achieve? What specific skills,
knowledge, and abilities will students have an
opportunity to develop through this multimodal
assignment?
How does this component of the work connect with
course/program goals?

3. Multimodal Project Title
Multimodal Portfolio Affordance
Given your goals and purpose, what is the benefit of
using portfolio pedagogies and the online platform for
this project?

4. Multimodal Project Title
Structure and Choice
How structured do you want the assignment to be?
Will you pre-define the sections, and if so what are
they? If not, what instructions will you give students
about structuring the project?

5. Multimodal Project Title
Section I: Title
• How much weight will you place on this aspect of the
project?
• What media/modes would be appropriate to this phase
of the assignment?
• How much time do you think it will take for students to
do this portion of the assignment well?
• Give an example of directions or prompts that you think
the student will need to be successful in this phase.

6. Multimodal Project Title
Section II: Title
• How much weight will you place on this aspect of the
project?
• What media/modes would be appropriate to this phase
of the assignment?
• How much time do you think it will take for students to
do this portion of the assignment well?
• Give an example of directions or prompts that you think
the student will need to be successful in this phase.

7. Multimodal Project Title
Section III: Title
• How much weight will you place on this aspect of the
project?
• What media/modes would be appropriate to this phase
of the assignment?
• How much time do you think it will take for students to
do this portion of the assignment well?
• Give an example of directions or prompts that you think
the student will need to be successful in this phase.

8. Multimodal Project Title
Section IV: Title
• How much weight will you place on this aspect of the
project?
• What media/modes would be appropriate to this phase
of the assignment?
• How much time do you think it will take for students to
do this portion of the assignment well?
• Give an example of directions or prompts that you think
the student will need to be successful in this phase.

9. Multimodal Project Title
Reflection and Metacognition
• How will students gain perspective on what they
learned from the project experience?
• What will be the opportunities for connecting this
learning with other aspects of their experience in
the course and/or program?

10. Multimodal Project Title
Resources and Support
• What resources and support will they need to
succeed in this dimension of the work?
• What additional partners could be helpful in
supporting you and/or your students, and how do
want to integrate this support into the project plan?

11. Multimodal Project Title
Feedback and Assessment
• What is the structure and frequency of feedback in
project development?
• What criteria for excellence will inform the feedback
and assessment?

12. Rubric
Criteria Unacceptable C-Level B-Level A-Level
Insert criterion here Description Description Description Description

13. Multimodal Project Title
Timeline
• Given the scope of work that you have identified for
the assignment, what is an appropriate timeline?
• What will be the milestones?
• If that timeline isn’t feasible, what can be scaled
back?

14. Multimodal Project Title
Circulation
• How will the project be shared with others? Will it
be made available to audiences beyond the course?