Week 2 of Cedo 555

On to another week and now we are starting to get into the nitty gritty of the class.  This week we had to set up a Google site page that will act as our portfolio site.  It has been a while since I have worked on Google Sites, so it took a little time to play around and set up my site.  After a while, it wasn't too bad and I got my site set up with a home page and sub pages which will be used for sharing my work, my vision and mission statements, standards my work follows, as well as a page sharing a little about myself.  I am excited to see the end product, but know it will take a lot of work and time to make this site look good and be user friendly.

In addition to starting our portfolio site page, we also had to come up with a vision and mission for our site. I Googled to find examples, and that did help me, however, it was not an easy task to think of a vision and mission statement.  I made mine short and to the point, but I felt it was actually pretty hard to get a perfect statement down.  I felt myself brainstorming a lot. I honestly thought it would be easier to think of these statements than it actually was.  However, I am happy with what I produced and think both statements are powerful and do what they are intended to do.  If you would like to see my site and my mission statements, please click here   https://sites.google.com/a/wolfmail.stritch.edu/bill-raudabaugh-cedo555-w2012/home/my-vision-and-mission

Week 1 of Cedo 555

It has been a while since I've last blogged and now it's time to get back to work.  The new class I am starting is called Professional Portfolio Experience.   I honestly wasn't really sure exactly what I would be asked to do for this class.  Obviously, I have to make a portfolio, but I have never made an online portfolio before and was unsure of what it would look like.  The first assignment I had to do for class was to look for and describe online portfolios that would be close to something I would make for my professional life.  I think this assignment was very worth while because as soon as I looked at some of the examples, the goal of what I need to do in this class clicked with me.  I found four portfolios that covered a variety of subjects that I now teach.  I discovered that these portfolios typically shared the persons philosophy, and introduction of themselves and their work and examples of work they have used in the classroom.  After thinking back on all of the work I have accomplished in nearly a year and a half in this cohort, it looks like a portfolio would be the perfect way to share everything I have done and categorize all the work I have done in this short time.  I look forward to putting this portfolio together and looking at my peers work as well.