For my first free-response, I will discuss Kimball's "Understand Web Portfolios". I figured this would be an appropriate reading to respond to because of the upcoming portfolio project due at the end of the semester. This reading helped me to understand what makes a great Web Portfolio.
Being a Writing & Rhetoric major, I am quite familiar with the Portfolio process. Every semester I have been instructed to create multiple portfolios for my writing classes, but these were simply compilations of the semester's work. Unlike the portfolios of my past, an Electronic Portfolio is meant to be reflection of one's progress. Although this was the aim of my other portfolios, I never really attacked that goal in my past.
Kimball explains the importance of both the contextual and aesthetic aspects of the Portfolio. The CARP principles outlined in past readings are reiterated by Kimball throughout the reading. Here is where the difference between my past portfolios and this one is. With a folder of written work, there is little to worry about when it comes to aesthetics, but an electronic portfolio is much different. Hopefully my work in the Website redesign project will help me utilize the CARP principles while creating my own portfolio.
In class, the professor insisted we should have some type of reoccurring theme or extended metaphor through the portfolio. I have put much though into what this theme or metaphor should be. After much discussion, I think I will stick with the Dr. Phil theme for my portfolio: I might make it a "tour though my office" or a diagnoses of my writing. By using a metaphor I can deeply analyze my own writing and give the viewer something to chew on while reading my portfolio.
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