Below are two screenshots from my first draft of this eportfolio. If you click on them, you will be taken to the webpages the images represent. To see my actual first draft, please click here. I invite you to peruse this draft and see where my thoughts began.
The first homepage I designed emerged from a course on writing assessment as social practice I took early in my graduate studies. While this course consistently led to discussions of portfolios as the most highly recommended assessment tool for teaching composition courses, graduate students were not required to produce a portfolio. I took it upon myself to draft this rough attempt at providing my final seminar paper in eportfolio format.
This draft included much background information (for contextualizations and definitions, readers should peruse this draft) and the use of a template program that came on my MacBook. I used pictures I staged myself, and it looked more like a newsletter than a portfolio of scholarly thoughts. The piece also read more like a seminar paper than a portfolio, as I had not included any of the stages of my work on this e-document.
Additionally, the piece was difficult to navigate and read, as noted above. In fact, if readers viewed it on anything except my personal computer, the images and words ran off the page. Therefore, I had to revise the document to meet the needs of my audience. However, I didn't know how to change the formatting in the template program, so I decided to try to recreate the document using a free web design program, KompoZer.
Below: another screen capture, this time of a page where a substantial portion of my overarching argument was buried.
