For my e-portfolio project, I believe I am going to use the Weebly platform to create my website. This is for two reasons; one being that I’m not sure I want my work saved forever on wordpress, and two I have used weebly previously in high school to create websites for my classes, so I am familiar with it.
For the topic of my e-portfolio, I have some ideas. I liked the idea of creating something for my grandparents to update them on my life and first year of college and how the online aspect made it different. Although covid has died down since last march, my grandparents on my mom’s side are very old and at-risk, so I haven’t seen them much in the past year. They live very close to me and I went from seeing them at least once a week to not at all, and I know they are very bored and lonely, so I think they’d appreciate something like this project. My other idea is to create something revolving around my interest in criminology, either for a potential internship or law school. I could include my college essay, which revolves around what I want to do as well as my interests, and my passion blogs about different serial killers I find interesting.
I think both of your ideas for your e-portfolio are excellent proposals. What tabs would you include in your e-portfolio? And how do you plan to categorize your artifacts? Would you stick to academic only artifacts? Or include extracurricular commitments? I look forward to whatever direction you choose to take this!
I agree with Rayna that both of your portfolio ideas sound very good. I think the grandparent idea could be a lot more loose and fun for you to do. It would allow you to look back at this past year and pick out all of the high points. Your other idea might be good if you plan to use this project in the future as a supplement to an application of sorts
I like both of your ideas, and making an eportfolio for your grandparents would definitely allow for lots of different artifacts as opposed to a more strict criminology focus. What sort of tabs and artifacts were you planning on using? If you go with the former choice, you have may more leeway to add all different types of things!