Portfolios: Day 1

I found this image shortly after my class began work on the actual digital portfolio today.  I see it as something of a continuum on a couple levels.  The first is from real to imagined.  The second is more along a time continuum.

We are a big pile of Lego.  There were a number of students with varying degrees of technical expertise. There are some students who know a bit of what's happening and some who seem as though they are at the bottom of the pile wondering why their world looks all randomly coloured.  Adding to this messy pile were numerous technical glitches: some computers wouldn't power up, others couldn't find the internet, while others lost all graphical content (it's really hard to navigate in a text-only environment).  Some students got as far as logging on to their digital space while others were able to surge ahead and were able to build their portfolio structures.

But this is only the beginning and we still have much to learn.  I envision older students helping younger students.  I see teachers getting excited about students getting excited about their learning.  I also don't really imagine an end goal at any point.  And I think that's fine.  What I do see, however, is a journey and we have made a good start in the right direction.