Final Project Portfolio
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Note, if the website is down, please email your portfolio to the TA (strive@cs.berkeley.edu) and it will be added to your entries later. Or optionally, you could maintain your own website and then direct the TA to that website.
Building a research portfolio well serves both the students and instructors. As the final project is a semester long endeavor, a portfolio will help both students and teachers to keep goals in mind, measure progress, seek and give advice in a timely fashion, and give early warning to difficulties (such as an overambitious project). Of course, this approach requires an investment of preparation time by both parties, but it hopefully insures against end-of-semester anxiety by providing a foundation of communications and a measure of expected performance.
The hope is that every week or two, students paraphrase an exploration, synthesized idea, or work of interest and what kind of future work may come. While the final project will probably contain a group component, the emphasis for the portfolio is on individual performance. Feedback will be given via email and possibly through individual meetings within a week of submission.
A log of submissions will be kept on a website, where students may submit their progress and view their submissions (simply enter your name without filling in the other parts). Based on these submissions, points will be assessed at the end of semester for this aspect of the final project. Try to keep the number of submissions to at most one per week. Tentatively, 6 or 7 relatively complete submissions are probably a good goal, but there is no hard limit as the portfolio is an experimental tool. Expect to receive feedback within a week.
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I hope that each of you achieves your best,
David Garmire