Finding Treasure

As my eportfolio journey continues, it has become less a rollercoaster ride and more of a treasure hunt of sorts. Whether it was looking through past assignments and accomplishments trying to find artifacts I’d like to showcase or searching for inspiration through photography and famous quotes, I have felt like a pirate with a partial treasure map.  I say partial because at times I have known exactly where to look to find my treasure, but at other times I have been pleasantly surprised (like who knew that Microsoft Clip Art had so many beautiful images to choose from?)

After looking through my classmates’ eportfolios last week, I checked out Wikispaces and Portfoliogen to see if I wanted to change from my Wix website.  Though I decided to keep my eportfolio website I did like Wikispaces a lot more than Wikia so I have been playing around with that site so I can hopefully include a wiki in my completed eportfolio.  This week has really been about completing the website design, which I tried to keep simple yet still show a little bit of who I am and my creativity.  I also completed the first draft of my educational philosophy, which after a brief panic due to my lack of teaching experience, I am actually pretty pleased with it.

I still need to upload artifacts, contact past classmates about using group assignments, explain my design elements, write quite a few more sections and update my resume, but I am happy with where I am at and what I have been able to accomplish so far.  I hope that these next few weeks I will also be able to keep discovering new treasure along the way, and who knows I may even have to borrow my son’s pirate hat.  Ahoy Matey!

You can see the progress on my eportfolio website by clicking on the following link: http://froggy1128.wix.com/mljportfolio