Quillstress

Digital Portfolios July 12^th

This session provided some wonderful examples of digital portfolios and made me think very hard about what having a “public” face on the web really means. I’ve been a “lurker” on the blogosphere for a long time…I’ve been active on a few chats and forum, particularly the Nanowrimo sites. I’ve just recently started commenting on a few blogs I’ve become familiar with…I even game on more than two mmorpg’s, but in every case I’ve used a pseudonym. I don’t know why, particularly, but I’ve never been comfortable putting myself out on the web. We were looking at all these interesting ways to present our professional lives to students, parents, administrators, prospective employers and others; and I couldn’t get around feeling like I would have problems in term of my students’ privacy and my own. I’d be interested to know how many teacher’s sites and portfolios have their full name, first name only, last name only, or just how they’ve approached this question. You may have noticed, my blogs for both the writing marathon and this workshop response site are under the name “Quillstress”. Just who am I on line?