Emily's+EP+Work

Status Update 1, Oct. 29: On Friday, I was really productive and really enjoyed the work I completed. I had already set up my Wiki page the previous Friday, so I worked more on the appearance and initial settings. This was really time consuming though so I instead spent most of my time putting my different artifacts into the folders. Now that I have a theme, Color Your World, I want most of my articles to focus on international work or work correlating to a global perspective. Having a theme and the majority of my artifacts in the various folders, I feel like a significant dent was made on my portfolio.

Status Update 2, Nov 5: I now know what all of my artifacts are going to be. I have spent the last few workshops choosing the artifacts and editing them. Yesterday I began the process of adding the artifacts into the portfolio page. This process was more time consuming than I thought because I have to edit how the text looks once I put it into the Wiki. I am also working on creating two picture slide shows as artifacts. I created one yesterday and put it into my portfolio to make sure that I knew how to do it. This week I would like to finish putting my artifacts onto the page, including my second slide show. After that, the main thing I will have left is my reflections and annotations.

Status Update 3, Nov. 12: My portfolio is coming along nicely. I have started putting my artifacts into my portfolio now that I know what artifacts I am going to use. I really like the way I approached creating my portfolio. I went through and found all of the artifacts first and now I am putting them into the Wiki. It is slightly tedious to go and upload all of the artifacts on to the Wiki, but it is easier because I only have to go to one place to find the files. I am having difficulty getting the format to be cohesive throughout. I think just the nature of the Wiki makes it slightly more difficult to go through and make sure everything has the same amount of "enters" and the right things are bolded. I am going to put a lot of the tweaking on hold until after the major content parts are done. After I put all of my artifacts into the Wiki, I'll have the class annotations and the reflections left to do, as well as the minor final touches.

Portfolio Reflection, Dec. 3: My favorite part about my portfolio is definitely my theme. This is my second theme that I had decided on and I am really happy with it now that I have changed. My theme was originally “color your world” but once I started trying to incorporate it into my portfolio, I realized that I did not actually think it all the way through to what those words actually mean. Now my theme is “be the change” and I think this represent who I am not only as a teacher but also as an individual. Each of the pages includes a quote from someone that has also impacted the world around them like Eleanor Roosevelt or Ralph Waldo Emerson. My artifacts are ones that I think best represents the work that I have done over the last four years that have changed my world, and the lives of those around me. The thing I most want to work on next and that I sort of just ran out of time and patience for is tweaking each page. I want to make sure that the layout is cohesive throughout: same font, spacing between artifacts and annotations, etc.