Final Reflection

When starting this ePortfolio, I was not quite sure what the end product would look like or even what I was filling out to be honest. I would ask myself, why would someone need something such as this to only put one or two sites on here that I, as a teacher might hardly use? Well now that it is finally come to an end, I realize what this ePortfolio is all about. It is not something you whip up in an hour or a site just to have because we had to, it was a site that organized all the assignments, projects, blogs, and even other web sites and applications we used throughout the class into one place; my ePortfolio.
I organized my ePortfolio by first filling in all the information I knew right off the top of my head. Of course my name, where I went and where I attend school now, the places of where I held a job and where I still do, and just a little bit about myself. Once I filled this out I realized that I needed to organize it more because if I were to be showing this portfolio to a school or administration it would need to be a neat and filled out fully to show that I am a rounded person, not just in the classroom setting, but outside the education field. I consider being creative to be one of the strengths of my work because I enjoy coming up with new things and making them my own. I think being creative, whether it is for a portfolio like this or just teaching a class full of seven year olds, having creativity helps in the process of being a better teacher and or person. If I had time, I might change where I am employed. I will most likely keep this portfolio or something like this for the future when I become a teacher and if I do, I would most definitely put in under where I am employed which grade and school I am teaching at.
While working on all these projects in W200, I found that working at my own pace and getting the main idea and objective complete ahead of time is the most effective technique in creating my projects. I say this because once I had a project almost fully complete, I would have the weekend or at least a few days to tweak it the way I wanted it and could make it even better than I had the first draft. That is what I like about working on computers when a project is assigned. You can always go back and change what you have first put down. I learned how to write blogs and create my own website while working on the projects which you can see in all the projects that I have done for this class. At first I was hesitant on writing blogs because I had never done them before, only read them. But once I got the hang on them, I was eager to write about what happened in class. I was also hesitant on creating my own web lesson plan site. I had no clue there was such thing that teachers use. It became my favorite project to work on and to add to my ePortfolio for others to see and use. Something new I tried in working on this project was actually writing the last two blogs from the word processor instead of the actual blog site. I wish I would have done that from the beginning because sometimes when writing a blog on the actual site, you make mistakes, and I had a habit of submitting it then reading a few mistakes that were already published then going back in and trying to find and fix them. With the word processor, it underlines what you have spelled wrong or a fragment. This new technique should have been used at the very beginning because it ended up to work a lot smoother and easier to copy and paste my work and thoughts knowing that everything was good to go.