Navigating my way around MyPortfolio

MyPortfolio is a tool that we need to use for our papers to evidence our learning and the cool thing is that is an electronic tool that we can continue to use after our study.  It has lots of potential to be used for a range of purposes such as evidencing for appraisals, presenting information for professional projects or for things like CVs so I was excited to get the hang of how it all worked. 


I did come across some challenges right at the start.  When I signed up, I didn't put Massey down as my facility and put University of Canterbury instead which meant that skins weren't enabled so I couldn't make my pages look pretty. On reflection though I'm actually glad about this because it has meant that I haven't been too distracted wasting time, making my page look pretty. 


At the block course, I worked with a new friend, Wendy Blackmun who was quick to get the hang of how it all worked and she showed me how to copy a page so that I could set-up a template so that is the first thing I did so that after completing Domain 1, I wouldn't need to fiddle around with setting up my page for Domains 2-6.


Another challenge has been the computer that I am using.  Since starting my new role at MoE, I was allocated a tablet to use that is Windows and for the past 12 years I have been using an apple Mac which I was very comfortable with and knew many techie things to help me do my work efficiently so getting used to a new system has been frustrating and I've had to go ask friend Google a few things like how to take a screenshot and how to save a document to pdf from internet etc... I was even tempted to go out and buy a laptop but I'm trying to resist the temptation due to finances.


The next thing I have tried to do is embed my blog on my page as this is the tool that I have decided to use for my reflections and after lots of attempts, I put up a post on the general discussion forum for all and got some helpful advice so then I was able to put at least one article of my blog on the page and now I'm going to attempt to correct this so my whole blog shows.....  I will know this works when this post is showing as an article for an artefact and when my reflections part of my page shows the whole blog.

I'm still having some challenges with it as whenever I add an item to a page and save it, it takes a long time to load and I have to push remove or the X button to get rid of the box and sometimes this deletes the item I've added and sometimes it doesn't so it has taken me a lot of time to fiddle around with it....


Now for feedback from Assignment One :)