Connecting Roads:

Billy Gerchick's ENG 101 ePortfolio

Above: For my Phoenix College English 101 classes on October 21, 2015, I dressed the part of a Back to the Future Part II character, somebody in the "future" as the future was envisioned in 1985. Merging serious scholarship with the "F-word" in education, fun, I believe that professors and students can connect our educational roads, blending the best of pop culture and classical scholarship. 

Dear Reader,

“Roads?” asks Doc Brown in Back to the Future. “Where we’re going we don’t need roads.” Respecting the past and educating to the future, I'm Billy Gerchick and I feel responsible as part of the last generation to grow up without the Internet; responsible as scholar, colleague, and mentor leveraging convergence media to empower generationally, economically, linguistically, and culturally diverse learners through language arts. Teaching and coaching at Title 1 schools for 20 years and at community colleges for 12 years, now I'm serving Mesa Community College at the Red Mountain Camps, serving my childhood community of east Mesa. While admiring Doc Brown, I know we do need roads; transmedia roads to connect learning. And people. 

My e-Portfolio captures the following English 101 projects:

1. "Thor Money" personal statement reflection
2. "T-Bird Detective" research paper reflection

Enjoy this e-Portfolio by clicking the links to the right; each linked portfolio page includes a brief summary of the writing project, a linked attachment to the composition itself (if applicable), and a paragraph reflection on how I progressed as a college English student through the project.

Billy Gerchick

~Mesa Community College English   

Note: The above headings, picture, and text give an example of how you may "hook" your audience in the portfolio introduction. Follow the assignment steps to create the portfolio, feel welcome to copy and paste anything I share to give you a "mentor text template" to follow, and finish the course strong!