IUPUI THEMED LEARNING COMMUNITY:

Expanding Intercultural Landscapes in STEM

 

DESCRIPTION: This learning community will help you explore who you are, where you are from, and where you fit in at IUPUI. We will read broadly, design interculturally, and create a map for achieving your personal ambitions and professional goals.

 

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What does it mean to succeed academically in a new, intercultural landscape as you explore notions of self and other while laying a solid foundation for your professional goals?

 

COURSES:

• UCOL 110 First Year Seminar 

• TCM 180 Exploring Intercultural Technical Communication

• ENG-L115 Literature For Today

This trio of courses provides a unique educational opportunity to explore expanding intercultural landscapes in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. You will study together with three faculty who work closely to create connections and transferrable skills across all three classes. Signature assignments from each of the classes will be shared in individual, student WIX ePortfolios.

 

You will create academic and career plans; explore technologies

and culture; and read literatures across a broad spectrum --from

Bradbury's science fiction to the realism of Danticat to the

jarring simplicity of Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis. 

 

Our TLC will also plan and attend an off campus experience.

In the fall of 2018, the TLC attended the play Pipeline

at the Indiana Reparatory Theatre.

 

 

Student ePortfolios: Career Goals Meet Academic Assignments

As a TLC member, you will make connections between the three courses and display multimodal discourse strategies through a personal ePortfolio. You will use WIX templates to create ePortfolios. You can work with a wide variety of options for layouts and designs. Our TLC will have consistency for tabs and major assignments; otherwise, ePortfolio decisions are up to you.

 

ePortfolios are a valuable tool for both learning and assessment.

To learn more about ePortfolios, visit "ePortfolios Explained: Theory and Practice."

 

 

FOR YOUR ePORTFOLIO "HOME" PAGE:

Virtual Table of Contents

For the Home tab on your ePortfolio, imagine the readers who land on your home page. What should you tell those readers about the website to orient them to the materials as well as why you're sharing them? Comment on each tab, the course affiliation, and items you've selected to include in each area. Think of the Home tab as a virtual Table of Contents. You can create lists. You can insert images as hyperlinks. You can even shape the content and comments like a map of your website if you want to.

 

HYPERLINKS: Be sure to provide hyperlinks to sections you mention

Hyperlinks are part of shaping a successful webpage. Pages without hyperlinks are dead ends. As soon as you finish a sentence with material you want to connect to another page, use the WIX hyperlink tool in the TEXT SETTINGS tool box--it's beside bold, italics, underline and colors. [The hyperlink tool looks a little like a paper clip.]

 

To quickly add hyperlinks into your WIX pages: 

 

• First, open two windows: the one you're editing BESIDE the one you want to hyperlink to

• Copy the URL on the page you want to link 

• Highlight the word or series of words you want linked on your ePortfolio page

• Select the hyperlink/paperclip from the TEXT SETTING toolbox where you want to add the link

• Choose the WEB ADDRESS option

• Then paste the URL in the small vertical window requesting the web address

 

Your text should be underlined or colored when the hyperlink is live. You will have to preview the page to see the live link. Reminder: the color often does not show up in editing mode, but the hyperlink really is there if you go to the preview or page view.

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To see an example of how a HOME page can work on a professional website, visit mine: DJ Oesch-Minor.

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