Reflection on my E-Portfolio

My E-Portfolio has taken up a large portion of my time the last couple months because I viewed this project as an extremely important part of my professional life.  I felt it was of great importance to begin my E-Portfolio with an introduction page with a description of all the other pages so the potential employer can navigate to the links that are of greater importance to him or her.  Although there were some obstacles I had to overcome while creating my E-Portfolio, I found the experience rewarding and I feel my end product is something that I will be able to use in the "real world."

The header on blogger was one obstacle I had to overcome during the creation of my E-Portfolio.  The picture was seen below the words of my title and, therefore, my face was barely visible.  I went on Google and searched for ways to correct this problem and was able to find a way to right-align my picture and create line breaks in my title.  Working with the HTML part of my E-Portfolio was tricky but it helped me to create the product I wanted potential employers to see.  Printing my embedded documents was another obstacle I was able to overcome by editing the settings on my Scribd documents.  I decided to not include my Professional Guide Portfolio on my E-Portfolio because my Internship Final Assessment created a more condensed version of my experience, a product that I thought would be more valuable to potential employers. 

I definitely learned a lot about myself in the process of creating an E-Portfolio.  I knew I was a very task-oriented and driven person but I found during this project to be even more so because of my perception that I can utilize this project in my "real life."  This project created a sense of student engagement that doesn't always exist in other classes.  I plan to use this "real life" student engagement strategy in my classes as a mathematics teacher.  I believe this approach will help students to be more motivated in mathematics and create a desire for more student-driven learning in this field.