Creating the Artifact: Model Student outcome of creating an artifact for the porfolio
This entry in Facebook is an excellent example, and can serve as a model for the desired outcome of this Unit Plan. There are a variety of technologies blended together in this artifact: grabbing a frame from a recorded Ustream.tv recording, posting this with an intelligent and meaningful comment in the Dibden Learning Community on Facebook, and creative competence with a advanced computerized lighting the console, the ETC ION, producing a beautiful lighting design for a dance piece.
Adding an Artifact to your Portfolio
Documenting and reflecting on your work in a consistent and regular way is a critical part of building your portfolio. In technical theater you are experiencing events and creating knowledge constantly. Often we do not realize what we have learned. Keeping a variety of documentation and creating or collecting artifacts is an essential skill to demonstrate you actually know what you claim you know. It used to be that having a diploma would verify that you had achieved a certain level of competency in a given discipline-- But now, in the 21st Century and the complicated, rapidly changing interconnected world we live in today, it is important to demonstrate your competencies with well documented relevant experiences. Your portfolio is evidence of your learning journey and provides verifiable evidence of your competencies. As part of your course work in this class and in the Associate of Arts Degree, I will be asking you to create your portfolio, contributing to it throughout the semester and your college career. The intent is for this activity to become a habit in your life long learning journey.