This class is the reason that you are reading this portfolio.  If you are encountering problems with any of the links or reading any of the pages, I claim responsibility.  The professor, fellow graduate student, William Warrick, did his best with this technology ignorant student. 

           When I started the course, I had never tried web page design.  I had never done a number of procedures which many of my classmates did without thinking.  For example, when I was having difficulty making 3 column lists, the person next to me suggested that I put the information into a table.  I didn't know how.  But as you look at this portfolio, all the information on every page is set in a table.  Once I learned it, I couldn't stop using it!

           If you are encountering technical difficulty with this portfolio it could be that you are reading it on a PC and it was designed on a MAC.  I tried reading this on a number of PCs with various versions of Windows.  Some responded perfectly and on others some of the page links didn't work.  I am sorry.  I will blame it on the Windows version.

           Before we started producing our portfolio, we studied the concept behind a learning portfolio and discussed the reflective benefits of on-line portfolios.  As I started to write reflections on my professional growth, I realized the personal benefits that this portfolio will have.  A good friend who was reading my portfolio commented that it was a legacy for my children to be able to follow my professional growth.  I look at it as another area of growth in my doctoral program.

           I highly recommend this course to doctoral students who are not technologically savvy.  Bill is very patient, kind, knowledgeable and very, very funny.

          When I was looking for an elective to round out my program, I had contemplated just about every course under Education in the GSE catalog.  I thought that it would be difficult to choose just one.  But then this course on electronic portfolio came up and it seemed so practical.  Not only would it serve as an elective but it would help develop a professional area in which I am very weak.  Technology. 

          My children can run circles around me when it comes to technology.  My son and daughter were making their own web pages using code (not Composer or Dreamweaver) in the 1990s when they were in middle and high school.  I really didn't understand what they were doing.  After taking this course, I can make a web page and an entire web site.  There are still things to learn but I feel confident that I can use this newly found talent in my classroom.