Showcase ePortfolio Project Narrative
Assignment Description:
Students describe the intents and content for their showcase ePortfolios, addressing what they will include, where they will get the content, types of media used, overall architecture/structure of the site, and how they envision user interaction. This is a precursor to mapping the site.
Narrative:
I want my showcase to be simple, easy to use and visual. I looked over all of the 2nd years’ showcases and Katrina Ketchum’s is my favorite. It has a nice sleek and consistent design. I especially like how she laid out her resume: very succinct and visual. I also noticed that she provided some information about her internship and research instead of saying “more info to come”. I’m going to try to emulate these choices in my showcase. I also like Danielle Walter’s showcase, specifically for her home page. Most people have their home page as their about page, but Danielle had this lovely photographic home page. I think I’m going to post my biopic video as my home page and then navigate people to the about page to learn more about me.
All of the pages of my showcase will have a header with my name, my personal branding words (Community Organizer, Creative Leader, and Conscientious Storyteller) and the quote: “Earth without art is just eh.” Below this will be the menu with just 4 options: About, Professional, Portfolio, and Contact. The professional page will have a drop-down menu with the following: Resume, Internship & Practicum, and Research. As I mentioned, I plan to post small statements of interest for my internship and research, so that those pages at least have some information. I believe this will help the site look more professional as I continue to work on my internship and research. For my portfolio, I am planning to include a lot of links to my other sites including my writing blog, ELAN social media, AAD Art World project, MetaphorADay twitter, Portlandia of the Free blog, published articles and eventually a podcast. I will also add PDF links to my favorite creative and academic writing. Since I am more focused on writing than visual art, I thought I would just have a little header of images that include some of my design work or photography. Lastly, I will have a simple contact page for people to email me. I am planning on creating a Linkden account so that I people can contact me there as well!
Showcase ePortfolio Project Webmap:
Assignment Description:
Students create and/or revise a flow chart/webmap that reflects the content categories/information chunks and the subset information that falls within each main chunk. Maps should be annotated with brief descriptions of what is to be included in each content chunk and where/how the content will be collected and/or generated.
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