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Here are my reflections on the process of organizing this electronic portfolio using Microsoft Excel. I created
a list of the artifacts that I wanted to collect, using Excel. Below are versions of the matrix, along
with a brief reflection on the process.
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Excel version
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I spent an evening going through my web pages and my hard drive (my digital archive) to select
the specific artifacts that I wanted to use in my portfolio. I set up an Excel spreadsheet
that let me list the artifacts (21 in all) and then create hyperlinks to each URL.
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Scanned version
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After selecting the artifacts, I tried to identify which competencies or skills each artifact demonstrates. I found five
or six major categories right now, maybe more when I think about it. But the major categories have
emerged. Now, all I have to do is create a collection for each grouping, and write an overall reflection
plus record the captions. Since I had all of the artifacts on one of my websites, all I
had to do was capture the URL. This image is the scanned version of the Excel spreadsheet
that I used to classify the artifacts.
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PDF Version
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After creating the list with the URLs, I added comments in Excel to represent the captions for each
artifact. I played around with converting the document into HTML, but spent too much time fighting the Microsoft
style sheet codes. So I just converted the document into PDF, which I will use on the WWW.
I uploaded the Excel spreadsheet to this portfolio as a document, but I might prefer using the PDF.
From start to finish this project has taken me an evening, and most of the time was spent
in selecting the artifacts and writing the captions. Those aren't really technology issues...they are portfolio issues.
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