Portfolios are collected four times.

The most important component of the portfolio is your reflection on your online participation.

You are asked to post a brief "agenda item" for each assigned reading, which includes a short quotation from the reading, your initial reaction the reading, and your responses to agenda items posted by your peers.

The portfolio asks you to choose several agenda items and follow up -- that is, write out and post a well-thought-out response to some of the most interesting agenda items -- your own, or ones that your peers posted.

If you post about one well-thought-out follow-up a week, including brief quotations from the assigned readings, then the portfolio assignment will be easy. If you fall behind, you'll have to do a lot of writing to catch up, the effort won't be as rewarding as it could be.

More details will be announced after everyone in the class has had some time to learn and adjust to the online environment where we'll be working.