The Making of an E-portfolio Part 1

I began work on my e-portfolio today. I’ve thought about my e-portfolio, the kind of audience, look, structure and writing I want in it. Yet, I’ve resisted starting. There’s an image in my head of what I want it to look like. I think I knew that as soon as I started, I would either have to struggle to make it a reality or realize that it was impossible, neither tantalizing options. Today is that today. I’ve spent around fifty-or-so very productive minutes trying to find the perfect theme. It does not exist. I want something professional, in case I use this for graduate schools. However, I want it pretty, for me. Finding an attractive yet clean look for my blog is still problematic. I’m still searching.

In other news, I did find out that my “mind map” for my e-portfolio is totally possible. This feature of my e-portfolio was especially important to me. I hate awkward formats. I want everything to be easily accessible and appropriately explained with a “welcome” page for the main page and each section. Apparently, I can do this fairly easily with menus and image links. The biggest hassle will be switching my word documents into pdfs and uploading them into wordpress so that you don’t have to download documents to view them. I mean the biggest hassle other than perfecting the appearance and theme of my website.

I did manage to do a little writing for the intro page for my museums studies section. That perhaps was the easiest bit of work today. I’ll probably review it but it seems functional, which so early in the game is pretty good. This was an easier section because I already knew what media I would add (the youtube video “We Love Museums  . . . Do They Love Us Back?”)  I’m trying to include images and video in all sections of my e-portfolio. Although I want my writing to be very accessible in case this reaches a grad school committee, I also want it to be accessible with pictures and video. Hopefully they’ll be appreciative of those aspects, too. No one likes a big wall of text.

By Julia

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