Language Portfolio

Written texts are also an important part of the dossier to demonstrate written competencies.
They can be any kind of written work, discussing any topic. It could be a poem, a story, a screenplay, a biography, a letter, a dialogue, an essay, a CV, an entry from a diary, a travelogue, a report, a research paper, and so on…
It can be work, one has produced during a language class, but it can also be written pieces produced outside a language class.
Such a sample text should either be attached to the e-Portfolio as pdf file, or in a Blog entry itself. If the dossier text is published as a Blog post, the reflection about this piece should be visibly distinguishable from the dossier text itself.

Reflexion:

I believe this version for publishing a written dossier piece should only be used, if the text is short. For example when an e-Portfolio is updated during a trip through a country of the target language. So each post can serve as entry of a travel journal, describing and discussion various (especially cultural) experiences and impressions while they are still fresh.

Text files are a very important part of the dossier.

The reflection about the written piece can be made in the blog entry (= what you are reading right now), and the text itself can be linked in the entry (preferably as pdf file).

To ad such a pdf file to your entry, go to the little sun-icon over the text edit-icons next to Add media: and upload it.

Here is: the sample-text as pdf.

Audio files can also be part of the dossier of an e-Portfolio.

The reflection about the sound file can be written in the blog entry (= what you are reading right now), and the audio file itself can be uploaded and displayed in the entry.

Here is a: sample-audio

In the recoding I mentioned Creative Commons, which “provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry”.

I used GarageBand to do the recording and editing. The sound and music I used were also provided by the program. Please see other entries for more information about audio recordings.