These are summaries of assignments and projects for the semester - see at a glance what you will be working on so you can plan ahead and avoid a last minute rush.

Create a STUDENT WEB PAGE.  Go to tools at the MySeneca site, click on Edit your Home Page. Fill in each text box with updated information about yourself. Upload a small graphic and describe three links related to Career/Marketing. To check your work, go to the Roster link in Communications and put in your last name.

FORUMS You are asked to contribute to the BlackBoard site Forums weekly. You may start a new thread or respond to someone else's posting. Quality of posting is considered when awarding points. Ten of the forums are counted for participation. Participation points are posted at midterm and again at the end of the course.

Notebooks - see course FAQ for details on this optional activity.

You will be designing and producing a brochure, marketing Seneca's Career Services both on campus and online. 

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• Portfolios have a good layout, are readable and have consistent and error-free text. Portfolios should be put together with marketing saavy and creativity. Portfolios should be able to stand alone without explanation. Important documents like certificates should not be the originals. Originals should be should be protected by lamination and stored in a safe place.
• Use a solid binder and artistic cover pages .  A Table of Contents is recommended. Include your resume and other career related resources. Spell check your work before printing it.

The portfolio is also used as a resource collection for your career. Portfolios not only tell about you and your skills, they demonstrate your approach to creative problem-solving by the ways in which you organize and represent yourself. Your portfolio may be a model for other students. Your portfolio may also be a global passport to a rewarding career. You will  create a business card with your URL to use in job search and should include one of these cards in your portfolio.

You will organize all of the necessary documents in a portfolio binder. 36 sleeve Binders are available for purchase in the Seneca Bookstore. You can see a sample Portfolio in class and can print out a copy of the Portfolio criteria or evaluation marking worksheet to follow as you assemble your portfolio artifacts. Portfolios are reviewed and evaluated by teams and marking sheets are submitted to the Professor. Random checks will be done by the professor to compare portfolios with the marking sheets to confirm the marks given. 

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Because you are graduating soon - please use Freewebs  for creating your eportfolio. See ePortfolios (link also on main page)

You will be given assistance on request. An eportfolio created in MRK224 or MRK 410 class is not accepted in this course.   It is expected that ePortfolios be appropriate for use in Job Search, thus the content should be professional - any other content needs to be deleted or moved to another website. There is a criteria or marking sheet to guide you in the organization of your eportfolio. 

Beginning in Week One, you will become the member of a team. Your team's mission is to locate a graduate from Seneca College in the Marketing program. You will interview this person and get to know what they learned at Seneca and what they are doing since they graduated. This information will be used to create a multimedia Power Point Presentation.  You may be able to take pictures or borrow pictures from the graduate you profile to make the presentation visually interesting.  The Presentation files will be submitted online and the slide show will be presented by the team in a formal business-like presentation in class weeks 10, 11 and 12. 

With your team create a 10 minute professional presentation related to the marketing graduate you have selected to profile. . 
You must integrate any photos and video, sound and graphics collected with your profile subject into this presentation. 

• Handouts will be prepared and distributed to everyone in the class (these are not outlines or print-outs of slides but something additional to enhance the presentation. 
• Appropriate clothing is required. This means appropriate for the subject and target audience.
• Outline and handout version (6 slides per page) printouts are handed in. Please use a cover sheet and staple together all relevant papers. Be sure that the Team name and all members names and class section are on the cover sheet. Also included in this package is a one page Summary of the Team Project - how you worked together as a team.
• Self and Peer Evaluations posted in the appropriate forum are necessary in order to receive full points. You will be assigned a team to evaluate. 

If you are not present when teams present, you will lose points for not presenting and for not contributing to the evaluations of yours and other teams. 

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