At first I had no idea what a shape shifting portfolio was, then I read the article a little bit and I was told what it is. A shape-shifting portfolio is, "a collection of skill - for example, educational, social, service, and sports experiences and achievements that can be arranged and rearranged in order to define and redefine oneself as a certain kind of competent person" (114). If i had a shape-shifting portfolio from high school it would be jammed packed with various things from starting the dance team from my high school, to being an Honor Roll Student and being in the National Honor Society, to being in Student Government, to being a dance teacher 5 days a week.
College however is much different from that. Both freshman and sophomore year my mom and my grandmother were diagnosed with cancer, so I was never at school longer than I had to be. If I could be home I would be, so therefore I have never really been involved in many activities except the Cortland Dance Company which I just joined this semester. However, a big chunk of my portfolio would be from this 307 class. I would be able to show that I work well with technology and I can do alot when it comes to technology. I can show that I can blog, podcast, make an iweb and other various things. Today in the real world, technology seems to becoming more and more crucial so I feel as if having that in my portfolio would be a great thing,
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Ashley, you're right. What you are learning in 307 does contribute to your "portfolio!" Big time!!
You can survey all that you are doing as a student this semester and think about how it accrues to your portfolio.
You can also connect this notion to Friedman and the "new middlers" he talks about.
What do we need to have in our portfolio to remain "untouchable" in the Friedman definition of that word?
In order to be untouchable we need to be consumers of information - we need to know where and how to get the information. I think what we learn in 307 puts us into the category of the "untouchables". Before I came into this class I had so very little knowledge about technology - you could have probably put it in a teaspoon. Now I'd say I need a really large measuring cup to hold all of it.
Anyway, I think we all possess the skills now to make us the "untouchables". Now we have to pass on those same skills, etc. to our students so they too will be untouchable.
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