Share Paper: Online Classroom Project: Writing Digital Profile Summaries

  1. Caroline Fitzpatrick, Alvernia University, United States

Abstract: Online instructors are often searching for successful online writing projects that students can enjoy and use for real-world applications. This practical writing-intensive project encourages students to learn and exercise online writing, collaborative editing, cooperative feedback, profile development, and impression management skills for future internships, fieldwork, and/or employment. The writing activity can be used for digital portfolio development at high schools, colleges, and universities, and the product, a professional Digital Profile Sketch, can be applied to career-oriented social networking sites such LinkedIn, Quibb, and Ryze. In this successful case study of an online writing project (complete with theory, directions, and rubrics), ...