Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Goals for my Portfolio
Finish my personal portfolio by adding 2-3 more papers into the “academic writing” page, adding articles I have written to the “the tiger” page, and adding my creative nonfiction pieces to my “creative nonfiction” page. For the studio website that links to this site, I need to make two pages- one for my reflection on creating the portfolio and another for an explanation of the experiment we plan to do next semester including links to the research packet, the reflection paper, and the questionnaire.
Stick to the plan, man.
E-Portfolio
Splash page (completed)
Biographical Information (completed)
Academic work
Undergrad
Grad
Nonacademic work
Blog
Poetry
Fiction
Links
Links to websites of schools I went to, sites I visit frequently, friends' sites
Splash page (completed)
Biographical Information (completed)
Academic work
Undergrad
Grad
Nonacademic work
Blog
Poetry
Fiction
Links
Links to websites of schools I went to, sites I visit frequently, friends' sites
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
link to website
http://web.mac.com/cabartle/iWeb/Site/Home.html
Well, since everyone has iWeb 9well, at least the wonderful and fabulous women students in the class), answering questions while working the studio is incredibly helpful!
The iWeb program is working well for me. However, I am struggling with how to link documents to my portfolio. I am working on solving this problem when I return from holiday break. This is a stubbling block that hopefully, CCIt will help me.
Generally, overcoming problems while making the portfolio came from general practice and aqquainting myself with the editing program. I have found that playing with the program and, of course using the "undo edit" button, has helped me build my current site.
I completed another page that is specific to my writing and work. My goal before we leave today is to link the portfolio site to my personal site.
The iWeb program is working well for me. However, I am struggling with how to link documents to my portfolio. I am working on solving this problem when I return from holiday break. This is a stubbling block that hopefully, CCIt will help me.
Generally, overcoming problems while making the portfolio came from general practice and aqquainting myself with the editing program. I have found that playing with the program and, of course using the "undo edit" button, has helped me build my current site.
I completed another page that is specific to my writing and work. My goal before we leave today is to link the portfolio site to my personal site.
Web-page Progress
Today, i worked on my own portfolio that my studio portfolio is linked to. I am redoing everything with iweb since blackboard makes me depressed. So far it has been really easy and the more i experiment with it the more i find out i can do, but i have not tried to publish anything yet so we shall see how that goes. I worked on making my links prettier and started to add graphics around the sides of my pages. All of my links are now working, at first they just looked like text and i had to lay around with them a little bit before i realized that while you are creating the link, there is a check box that reads "enable link" and you have to click the box before the links are activated. I have not encountered a problem i could not figure out once i played around with it a little. I have most of my pages on my personal website done, i need to work on what i am going to put on the studio web-page. I know i want to explain the experiment we plan to do next semester, and make a page where i will report the results and our conclusions. So far i have not run into may technical difficulty - that is after i discovered iweb on my computer.
Reflection
In class today I worked on finding a way to make my pages more interconnected and a cohesive web page. With the help of Leah, I discovered how to make a hyperlink to connect things in my pages, such as a photo archive from my about me page to a photos page. Today I added three new pages to my iweb (the iweb has made this whole process sooooooo much easier). I am now trying to work out where I will put my e-portfolio, and am currently thinking that I might need to make a web page entirely outside of the main one and just put a link into the web page so that it can be accessed.
I think that the problem I encountered initially with making hyperlinks was not high lighting the words I wanted to add a hyperlink for. The process of organization is something that I forsee as being a problem, because I need to work with the program more to make it do exactly what I want. Looking at the many different themes provided by the iweb program helped me with a bit of the formatting. Learning to apply a different template designs to the template I want allows me to work within the program more and make my page uniquely my own, as well as learning to apply features that aren't laid out for me.
I think that the problem I encountered initially with making hyperlinks was not high lighting the words I wanted to add a hyperlink for. The process of organization is something that I forsee as being a problem, because I need to work with the program more to make it do exactly what I want. Looking at the many different themes provided by the iweb program helped me with a bit of the formatting. Learning to apply a different template designs to the template I want allows me to work within the program more and make my page uniquely my own, as well as learning to apply features that aren't laid out for me.
