Olivia's+EP+Work

New Portfolio: [] 10/22: Initial Status Report: a. I have the most basic layout created. At this point I have not loaded any artifacts; however, I have created a rough draft of what I am going to use. b. As of right now, I don't know what I am going to make as my extra categories. c. My theme is inspirational quotes by famous individiuals.

Friday October 29th:

a. I have currently chosen a theme for my portfolio. The theme I selected is inspiring quotes. I have completed the side bar and added my two additional sections. In addition, I have gone through each category and added links to the pages with the work I have selected to add. Next week I plan to go through and add the work that corresponds with those pages in more detail. b. My two additional categories are "Vision," which is where I plan to explain my vision of my language arts/social studies classroom. I will include some activities for the first week that we have talked about in class, my 180 days activity from Dr. Lee's class, and my ideal classroom set up from Dr. Young's class. My second additional category is "Arts in the Classroom." In this section I will include the music video from TOP, along with activities leading up to it. I also plan to help my CT with "A Christmas Carol" before winter break. We plan on creating a video of it with the flip cams and putting different scenes from different classes together to make the full play. I hope to also include one of the activities I teach during the Spring. c. My theme is inspirational quotations. I am incorporating this theme by putting a relevant theme on each page of my portfolio. My CT has demonstrated to me the power of using quotations in the classroom, and I think they are a great way to represent my personality and my beliefs in my portfolio. I chose a color scheme of light purple, black and white. I wanted something simple and professional.

Status Report Nov. 12 a. Today I focused mainly on my content knowledge page. I wrote my short passage on the main content page explaining why content knowledge is vital for teachers. Next I worked on my annotated list of course classes and the description of my courses. After that I went through and added links to all of my artifacts from their basic pages. This took much longer than expected with formatting issues, and it basically consumed the rest of the class time. b. My two additional categories are still the same, "vision" and "the arts in the classroom." I haven't worked on these pages yet, because I plan on using artifacts from TOP 2010 and my student teaching experience. c. I didn't make much progress today as far as the theme goes. Today I focused much more on my artifacts and organizing.

Final Status Report: December 3, 2010
 * The thing that I feel is my biggest strength in my portfolio is my artifacts. I want my work to be my showcase of my portfolio; however, I also want it to be an accurate illustration of me as an individual. With that said, the thing I want to work on next is making it more personal and connecting and furthering my theme. Although I think that the quotes are meaningful, I want to further my theme and make it more intricate.