2nd Post 555

What important info is my portfolio missing at this point?

I have yet to write an introduction page. I now know why we were doing that for several of the courses in this program. I am also missing a few artifacts. I wish we could access all of the Angel and PBWorks sites from all of our former classes. While we were enrolled in the classes, I was thinking "I won't forget the gist of this class". But as with anything, the further away from something you get in time, the more the recollections are gone.

I mentioned it before, but I will again. Rereading all of the blogs I have written throughout this program goes a long way in remembering the important sights, sites, sounds and feelings/opinions that I underwent and evolved through.

Lastly, I am missing the idea(s) for my culminating experience for 599. I am still "brainstorming" that one. A few ideas that I have are writing/finishing websites that supplement the classes I will teach next year along with a battery of online assessments.

Perhaps I could propose writing some Q & A lessons where I poll the students and require them to answer via their cell phones (against my school rules).

1st Blog of 555

Since the answer to the question, “How have you or your schools used e-portfolios?”, is “We haven’t”, I thought I had better come up with my own subject to blog about.

I remember my first thoughts about blogging. I felt the vast majority of people in this world are uninformed about most things. Why would I want to read what most of these “uninformed” people write? And when I was told that I had to write a blog about my thoughts, feelings and opinions while being enrolled in this MEIT program, I thought who would want to read my blog? I am one of the uninformed.

Occasionally, some family, friends and/or acquaintances will ask me what I am learning in this program. It is difficult to go back to what I think of as the “Dark Ages” of my computer knowledge history. That is, once someone is exposed to and begins using all of these Web 2.0 tools, they become second nature. I have forgotten what it was like to perform my job without using these newly found tools.

It turns out that the one who can get the most out of reading my blog is me. While beginning my portfolio and thinking about artifacts that I should include, I began reading my blog entries and gained a new perspective and recollected the moments that I had epiphanies about how best to use these new tools I had gained access to.