Mission accomplished!

Wow! What a relief ! my mission of creating an e-portfolio finally comes to an end. This is my ultimate and I must say, my well done - from my own point of view, of course -portfolio. Finally it’s googlepages for me, after my twice fail attempts creating e-portfolios using the freeweb and Weebly. I must say each one of these web has its own strengths and weaknesses. Meaning they are good in their own way. But I guess I opt for googlepages because it’s faster and user friendly.
Perhaps one might say that my e-portfolio is not that good, but I must admit that I’m proud of myself ( and thanks to Dr. Edwin who assigned me to do this as an assignment) because I managed to create and have something in the cyber space for the world to view…and it’s totally mine and I did it on my own. Frankly, I love my site and I intend to modify and always update it from time to time as my personal professional development.

What a headache!

I have finished creating my e-portfolio last week but I got this big problem-my web site address was very long. Oh dear ! it seemed to be the longest address I’ve ever seen-even longer than the previous freeweb address. My address was http://jamilahmanan.googglepages.com/jamilahabulmananeprofessionaldevelopmente-portfolio

This really gave me a headache. I thought I had tried everything to shorten the address, but it just didn’t work. How could I give my lecturer and friends this address of mine… for sure they would laugh at me. Oh no. I thought I would have to create a new web site and wasted my precious hours on it, which actually should be used for preparation for my final examination and my comprehensive exam. I tried asking my friends but nobody seemed to know what to do..apparently they didn’t encounter such problem. Luckily for me, at last , today one of my friends, Dahlia ‘came to rescue’ me, we eventually sat down and tried few things on the site setting and finally the miracle happened. Ahhh…. Thank god! At last I got this short address I’d longed for..
http://jamilahmanan.googglepages.com/ . Only the almighty god knows how happy I am.Thanks dahlia, even though she is not an IT expert, just as novice as I am, she managed to click the correct button. I guess I got to treat her for lunch tomorrow.

Enough of being undecided!

Earlier I thought I was an expert because previously it wasnt that difficult for me to create a portfolio but ..today I was like 24 hours staring at this screen. I am working on something new . An e-portfolio using a new website - googglepages.com. I was told that it was a user friendly site. But here I am... exploring, experimenting, click here and there to get whole picture of creating my very own portfolio. it doesnt seem that easy to me. Compare to the 'Freeweb' and 'Weebly' , I feel that 'Googlepages' is rather more technical, more challenging in a sense. The first two are more straight forward, easier to use.
Anyhow, I think I am going to stick to this gogglepages. It is very fast. I begin to like working on this portfolio. This, ultimately, will be my confirmed portfolio.
My main concern is what should I put in this site. After browsing at a few examples of e-portfolio, I have an idea of what pages I should include.
Then I asked myself - who is going to be my target audience? or who can actually benefit from reading my site ? who am I preparing this wonderful site for? OK. I got all the answers - I have made up my mind - apart from the fact that this site is for my lecturer, who is going to assess me, this site is going to be for my very own satisfaction and also for all ELT practitioners.
Therefore all my pages will tailor to these audience of mine.

I aim for something unique

There's just something that I dont like about my freeweb e-portfolio. One thing is that I dont like the design..how fussy of me!. Yesterday, I had a look at my friend's webpage. I was kind of envy when I saw her nice & presentable e-portfolio. I guess I need to change mine. Perhaps I try another website, like my friend's. She uses the weebly website. I want to have a pleasant looking portfolio too. So what I did was I created another portfolio but this this time I use the weebly website. I followed the instructions and there you are...an e-portfolio was born in the cyberspace..namely jamiemanan.weebly.com. I think this site is much better , firstly because I got my name in front of the website, unlike the freeweb where my name is placed after the freeweb. Secondly, there are more nice looking designs to choose from. But.. one flaw... no forum. I got to think of a way or find a new website which has everything. More exploration to do.

Aiming for something unique in my portfolio

My first E-Portfolio encounter

I was given this assignment to create an e-portfolio for my masters degree in TESL. It is for this Professional Development course. We are not supposed to get any professional help. Oh dear! Being a computer illiterate, ( just use computer for typing quizes and exam questions) nah! what a challenge! How do I go about ?!
Last semester I did a blog assignment. I guess that wasn't too bad. But this time .. an e-portfolio.. I hope I can manage.. I know I can but what I don't know is the amount of time that I'll take to create my 'master-piece'. I just hope it doesn't involve tears ....

My first step was to look at examples of portfolios in the freeweb. Having got the ideas of what to include, then I tried to create one of my own. I used the same website. Hah! like an expert.. I managed to create one already.. with this long address which i hope to make it shorter, so that it would be easier for me to pass my address around. A bit funny I thought - my long address is http//www.freewebs.com/jamiemanan/. I wish my name could be in front and freeweb follows it instead. Anyway, never mind- I just key in the contents and try to be happy with it.

Looking back at the milestone

I am one of those people who believes in fairly tales, not in the truthness of the story but in the message underneath the wonderful stories. For instance we talk about ' Snow white and the seven dwafts' where the step mother, upon talking steps to 'destroy' Snow White always check with her magic mirror the effectiveness of her work done. In today's term, she is doing a 'self- reflection' or 'retrospective'. How successful had she got the job done?
As educators, looking in our own 'magic mirror' is important. Reflecting on what we have done and see the outcome of it is crucial to be a good educator.

In my subsequent writing, i'm going to reflect on my Professional development e-portfolio in the making.. let's just see what's going to happen...