This entry is part 1 of 1 in the seriesRolling My Own In addition to getting the front-facing part of my website in order before this summer, I’ve been thinking about ways I can control (and keep the data from) more of my web-based infrastructure. Tim Owens has really been …
With an awesome new job on the horizon, one that not only encourages but demands regular reflection via blogging, I decided to take this weekend and get my digital house in order. When I started building my portfolio last spring, I expected to run both that and my blog off …
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Building my ePortfolioMy colleague Sean runs a workshop and blog called “The Better Presenter.” Sean has a great eye for visual design, and is really good at explaining and demonstrating how to make presentations suck less. Although I still have a very, very long way(…)
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Building my ePortfolioNow that I’ve got the bones of my ePortfolio in place, it’s time to start adding some meat. The first question I always ask faculty members when they approach me for help with a new technology is: what do you want the outcome of(…)
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Building my ePortfolioAs I mentioned last time, it took me a while to move forward with my portfolio because the task seemed too ginormous, and I was having a hard time breaking it down into bite-sized chunks that my brain could handle. This was partially(…)
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Building my ePortfolioSince my last post in March, my portfolio-building process has gone something like this: Write a blog post explaining what I want to do and why. Pull together a list of items to include in my portfolio. Visit my portfolio site every couple(…)
This entry is part 6 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently For the past 5 years, I have had the extraordinary good fortune to work with creative and talented people who value not only the need to create tools that facilitate learning, but tools that also are open, available for sharing, and heck, are(…)