aaaaaaand thats a wrap!

So as this week ends, or in my case ended yesterday, one of my classes came to an end.  This blog post is suggested to focus on my reflecting on my e-portfolio and I will get to that in a minute.  I want to start off by thanking my teacher for the ETAD class that just ended, Heather Ross, for making a class that I was hoping to be interesting into a class that I look forward to every Tuesday and Thursday and lamented greatly on days I was not able to be there for it.  This particular subject holds a huge interest for me and Heather seemed to recognize that and really gave me some great insight and advice that has probably had the most impact on my teacher identity this term.  So for all this I want to thank her very much!

Onto the reflection part.  I had the meat and potatoes, the nuts and bolts and the popcorn and butter of this e-portfolio written and put together  easily a month and a half ago.  I had already been studying e-portfolios via some of the people in my learning network that use and/or teach them so I was already putting the ideas of mine together.  Similar to this blog since I was already gathering ideas for it during internship just had not had the chance to start it until this term.  This was a blessing as well as a very vile curse.  I discovered as I made it, then remade it and then scrapped it and put it together yet again that I was very picky about how I was doing this.  I already have 2 more revisions ready to go in the next couple weeks after I finish some other assignments.  I almost submitted the link to it the week before it was due and then torn it completely apart again and rebuilt it from the ground up.  After seeing my classmates portfolios I know a few things I may incorporate into mine and am glad that I accept the fact that this is an ever changing thing so I can tinker in it continuously.  I have already had feedback from potential employers who have seen it and are impressed by what it is which makes me feel better about my neurotics in creating it.  I am slightly frustrated by some of the limitations of doing it in blogger but it is only a temporary home for it so I rest a bit easier in that knowledge.

So with the end of the class does not bring about the end of the blog, it just might end up being updated on a different timetable now.  I have a small list(pages) of things I want to blog about here so it is not going away lol!