Status+Report+November+12,+2010

I was really frustrated today with my portfolio. I am doing the wiki for it, and it just will not do what I want it to do. When I am trying to get spaces between paragraphs, it reverts back together. It is really annoying and takes up a lot of time. I care a lot about the actual presentation of my portfolio and I want it to look nice. I spent the entire day trying to fix one page of the portfolio.

I have gotten as far as the collaboration and leadership sections. I embeded videos and documents from the WolfPack Writing Partners and the Outsiders Project. I also embeded a video from my book talk with Ron for my second artifact. The issue came when I was putting the documents on the pages and trying to get them to space out.

Hopefully I can start moving more quickly, but I felt like I spent too much time on one thing.


 * Okay, so I have worked much more on the portfolio this afternoon and I feel pretty good about it now. I have gotten all of my documents and artifacts in place, except for the 21st century technologies ones. I am satisfied with the layout and I have also decided to start to incorporate my theme into the portfolio. Since my theme is Oh the places you'll go, I am making each category of the portfolio (since there are 7) a different continent. The main page of each section has a picture of the continent and a welcome greeting in a language from that continent. I then have a short explanation of why I chose that particular continent for that section (I still have two of these to do). My next step is to finish the continent representations and to figure out what artifacts I am using for the technology section. Then, I will begin my abstracts/reflections for each artifact.