The Beginning

Today, Dr. Baumbach and I met to discuss my EME 6313 (Instructional Message Design) projects. We have agreed that my primary task for the semester will be to develop a reflective electronic portfolio focusing on teaching, scholarship, and service. The development process will focus on design principles of usability, accessibility, perception, and memory. The portfolio will be designed to be scaleable in order to serve me over the next several years. I will be following the process Helen Barrett has outlined in some of her writing and keeping track of some of the many decisions and tasks one must address when developing an electronic portfolio. I think it will be interesting to review these postings in the future. I imagine I'll be facing a number of the decisions and dilemmas [pdf] Joanne Carney identified in her work.

In addition to developing the portfolio, I will submit a record of the research-based principles used in the development process, the decisions I made during the development process, and the justifications for those decisions. This blog is where I plan to keep that record. I've been reading Dr. Barrett's blog and decided I wanted to give blogging a try. I'll keep this up unless it becomes too overwhelming!