ou will be creating a digital annotated bibliography (DAB for short).

Your DAB
will help you inquire into one topic of interest for the rest of the course. You will
be designing and selecting your own topic. You might not choose a specific topic
from the 21
st
Century Modules or from the class but your background and
historical understandings must be informed. It is simply unacceptable to NOT
know the historical and ideological contexts of the issues that you research and
write about.

An annotated bibliography is, in simplest terms, a collection of sources that you summarize,
explain, and describe. Your bibliography will be digitized so there will be an extra dimension
to this work: you need to imagine yourself archiving and presenting the most critical scholars,
websites, lectures, and other sets of information about a topic that deeply interests you. Think
of your DAB as a gift here--- you are educating a public audience about the importance of and
multiple facets surrounding a topic that you want your public to understand better. We have
talked a lot about public writing--- all the good and all the bad. You will now continue to insert
yourself into the public sphere with your writing and website.

Grading
There is a checklist for each of these items that looks very much like the midterm check-off list.
You will be graded for this DAB (see the course rubric for how it is factored into the final
grade). Like with the midterm, use your checklist to stay on task with this assignment and its
requirements.

Your First Tasks and Organizational Responsibilities
The first part of your DAB has to do with organizing the sections of your ePort that will house
and communicate the form and function of your DAB. You have three tasks. If you need to see
the lay-out for this, you can always go to the homepage of your Digication account and look at
the 101 ePort Structure (the icon with the big yellow 101 on it). The 101 ePort structure also
lists how each bibliographic entry must be written.





TASK I
New Top Tab
Once you decide on a topic, you need to decide on a title for your Annotated
Bibliography and make a top-navigation tab for it alone on your ePort.

Your landing page for this title should explain how and why you have chosen these
overall texts for your DAB. For lack of a better way to say this, you are trying to SELL
your DAB here. What are you offering via your DAB that can change/add to the
things someone knows about this topic or the ways they think about it? Why should
people know about these books, authors, articles, websites, etc? What difference do
YOU want this knowledge make?
TASK II
Four Left-
Navigation
Tabs
You will need four left-navigation pages: Web Texts; Websites; Print Texts; and Video.
Do NOT use these titles.

Please note that for each of these left-navigation pages, you will need AT LEAST
FOUR annotated entries.

TASK III
Word Art
Include a Word Art image or banner for the title of each webpage. You are free to use
more images than this, but some kind of word art/banner must be included that
offers a title to your webpage.


2
Specific Guidelines for Your ePages
You have four, different left-tabs/webpages to create. Each ePage will house a different kind of
source. Here are your guidelines for each type of source. If you need to see the lay-out for this,
you can always go to the homepage of your Digication account and look at the 101 ePort
Structure (the icon with the big yellow 101 on it). The 101 ePort structure also lists how each
bibliographic entry must be written.

For each entry, you need to answer the following, three sets of DAB questions (summarize,
assess, reflect). In other words, for each source, this is what you must discuss IN AT LEAST
300 WORDS:
1. Summarize: What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or
article? What topics are covered? (about 3-4 sentences for this)
2. Assess: Why is this a useful source for your readers? What compelling evidence or
perspective does this source provide? What is the goal of this author?
3. Reflect: How does this source help you shape your argument/thinking about your
topic? How, if applicable, has this source changed how you think about your topic?
DO NOT EVER REPEAT THESE PROMPTS IN YOUR WRITING!

Here is more information about the nature of your four different ePages and sources:







Web Texts
(online articles)
You will need at least 4 different webtexts. This means articles that are openly
accessible on the internet, much like some of the reading assignments of this course.
You need to make sure the website is an established journal, newspaper, or some
other kind of scholarly resource. When you discuss each webtext, you should
highlight what this site or authors politics of public writing is.

There should at least be one scholarly weblink in the body of your entry somewhere
on this ePage (you could weblink each authors bio for example so that we can see
where this scholar works or what s/he works on).

Each image that is used on this webpage must be weblinked to its source.

The 101 ePort Structure on your homepage shows how bibliographic entries of web
articles must be written. The order of entries must be alphabetized by last names of
authors.





Print
Texts/Articles
(library sources)

You will need at least 4 different print texts. This means books and articles that you
retrieve from databases.

There should at least be one scholarly weblink in the body of your entry somewhere
on this ePage (you could weblink each authors bio for example so that we can see
where this scholar works or what s/he works on).

Each image that is used on this webpage must be weblinked to its source.

The 101 ePort Structure on your homepage shows how bibliographic entries of
books and articles must be written. The order of entries must be alphabetized by last
name of authors.





Websites

You will need at least 4 different websites. You are recommending the entire website,
not just one article here. Wikipedia, easily locatable dictionaries, or for-profit sites do
NOT count.

The title of each entry must be weblinked to the title of the site.

Each image that is used on this webpage must be weblinked to its source.



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There should at least be one scholarly weblink in the body of your entry somewhere
on this ePage.

The 101 ePort Structure on your homepage shows how bibliographic entries for
websites must be written. The order of entries must be alphabetized by website title.






Video

You will need at least 4 different videos. Lectures, documentaries, and performances
all qualify here.

The actual video must also be embedded on the page (see sample below for
how your webpage will look).

There should at least be one scholarly weblink in the body of your entry somewhere
on this ePage (you could weblink each authors bio for example so that we can see
where this scholar works or what s/he works on).

The 101 ePort Structure on your homepage shows how bibliographic entries from
youtube must be written. The order of entries must be alphabetized by the first word
of the youtube channel title.



Sample of a Youtube Entry:
AstonCLIPP. (2010, October 26). E-Portfolios in higher education. Retrieved October 1, 2013, from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO2aP-fclfQ.



Right below such an embedded video, you will answer the three sets of questions
related to: SUMMARIZE, ASSESS, REFLECT in at least 300 words.