Building an e-portfolio

This past weekend I have tried to spend my free time working on the e-portfolio / professional website that was asked of us. I definitely seen the merit in creating one for yourself to have, I feel like it would be the best way to make sure that you present yourself in a way that is to your liking. You can create a resource that a prospective employer can look into at their leisure, and helps to create a positive and professional electronic footprint or web presence for yourself. Instead of having to leave hard copies of valuable resources after an interview, you could simply give out a web address which would have all of the same documents, as well as more about yourself, presented in a neat and ordered manner, with added flare of what you feel sets you apart from other applicants. All good things.

With that all being said however, there were times during the process where I wanted to smash my computer like the gentleman in the GIF at the bottom of this post. I used Weebly to create the website for myself, and I felt like it was pretty finicky and definitely annoying. I felt like I was restricted by the theme I chose at the start, and then didn't want to switch the theme or switch to Wix (which I heard from others was a better site to use) and to possibly lose everything that I had already put in and formatted. I did pick up the hang of using Weebly once I figured out how to handle the glitches and lagging movements, etc. but it still was frustrating to me.

On a side note, in class on Tuesday we were given a short demo on different quiz taking websites or programs. Specifically we were asked to participate in the quiz about what we had learned thus far in our ICT class, on a program running from the web address of kahoot.it. I found it to be a great site, I liked the appearance, and the way that it became a game to try and answer quickly and correctly. One downfall is that participants needed to look at the main screen to see the questions and possible answers, and then to answer on their personal devices. This does however keep the entire class engaged and focused on the same thing, and move through the work at the same time, so that isn't actually too huge of a pitfall in my opinion. I am hoping to make use something similar to this once I am in my next student placement.

(GIF found at: http://frndlydigital.com/ )