While we will talk about this more on Wednesday during our computer lab session, I wanted to share with you some examples I found of final portfolios (in progress) by John Jay students in other English 101 classes.

Many classes use Digication for their portfolios, and you can search the John Jay Digication page for way, way more examples of current and past student portfolios!

John Jay Digication Database: https://johnjay.digication.com/portfolio/directory.digi

Some examples of current English 101 portfolios in progress.

https://johnjay.digication.com/jesus-robles-eng-101-fy02/home-1

https://johnjay.digication.com/leslie-pelchor-eng-1014/home-1

https://johnjay.digication.com/asadbek-alijonov-eng101-fy19/welcome

We will not be using Digication, but CUNY Commons/Wordpress instead. This is because while Digication is specifically designed for ePortfolios (and therefore probably easier), it’s also really only designed for use in schools. WordPress is the platform behind about 30% of the entire internet (the CUNY Commons is just one network of websites that uses WordPress), so more practice using WordPress will give you a much more marketable and personally useful skill.

(Personally, I’ve used WordPress in 3 different jobs so far, including teaching at John Jay, and I used to use WordPress for my personal website until I rebuilt it.)