Portfolios 1/3

The portfolio session seems to be one of the more tiring units because there were a lot of questions that arose between the freshman class in the morning and the sophomore class in the afternoon. That might be because of the fact that I only had about a day to prepare the lesson plan/power point or just because of the fact that it was either so much or not enough to do that some of the kids were confused as to what they should do next. For example: the freshman class didn't have much to add to their portfolio as of yet simply because they haven't been in the program for long and they haven't necessarily had the opportunity to create work in the programs taught here--so the most that they could add to it really was just the web pages that they made during the summer. The sophomores, however, had a lot to do and seemed pretty motivated to add a lot of content to their portfolios since they have had the opportunity to build a decent amount of work from different programs. Either way, both classes asked a lot of questions. Another reason this session might have seemed pretty tiring is because not that many students were present today so at times it was kind of like the energy was just sucked out of the room. Some things that I would like to do more with this unit is work with students who are actually interested in creating and incorporating their own design into their portfolio instead of the one provided, because ot was fun showing them how to change the color of the border and the border style. Allowing more time for more thought to go into this lesson plan would help for next time.