Evaluations and Critiques of Previous E-Portfolios

I will be analyzing some E-Portfolios from Fall 2019: AT 409, and AT 419, Spring 2019.  More

specifically, from 409, I will be looking at Luke Hull’s, Lucas Wright’s, and Jeremy Cousins’.  From

419, I will be looking at Evan Hockridge’s and Kyle Sheehan’s.  

Luke Hull’s e-portfolio is very neat and concise.  I really like the format that he used for this, as it

displays the date of when it was posted, section breaks between the blogs, and each post is

condensed down.  This allows someone who is interested to easily navigate to any of the desired

postings seamlessly. The highlight of his site is being able to click “Read More,” and being taken to

a separate page where one can focus on the post separately.  Then, at the bottom of these pages, I

like how more popular posts can be viewed from this blog.

Lucas Wright’s e-portfolio also uses the same layout and formatting as Luke.  This onces again

makes it enjoyable to navigate and explore the page. From both of these blogs, I am modeling my

blog after these due to the overall neatness of them.  One big difference, however, between Luke

and Lucas, is that Luke has his pages displayed at the top of his blog in the “Page List” feature of

the platform rather than the header like Lucas.  This is much more preferable, as it cleans up the

header more, making it not only easier to read the title and the separate pages, but also navigate

through the different pages.

Jeremy Cousins’ e-portfolio uses a different format and layout than what was previously mentioned.

  I personally was not the biggest fan of it, as it is hard to differentiate between the different posts

right off the bat.  To add to this, the font size was rather small and with the mix of the background

color, it was hard to read. Also, on the second most recent post, the text color was in black.  With a

mix of the dark grey background, it was nearly impossible to read without straining my eyes.  

Evan Hockridge’s e-portfolio was neater than Jeremy’s, but the format was still not as neat as both

Luke’s and Lucas’.  This is due primarily to the lack of distinct separation between the posts which

makes it difficult to navigate. Where his blog shines, though, is the content of it.  The content is set

up in a professional way in which he refers to multiple figures that helps explain the posting more.

This was the blog with the most pictures compared to the others which ultimately  supplemented

the text nicely.

Kyle Sheehan’s e-portfolio used the same layout and format that both Luke and Lucas did.  This

made the format readable and neat right off the bat. The main difference between his compared to

the other ones, is the pages were located on the left pane.  I would have preferred it to be more like

Luke’s, but where his page exceeded the others is similar to Evan’s. The amount of pictures and

figures solidified my understanding of the posting.

In summary, all of the blogs I analyzed today were neat and organized.  Some were more neat than

others though due primarily to clear separation of the different posts.  I believe this was in large part

due to the length of each post not being condensed like the others.  The more content the students

had, the harder it became to distinguish this. This is why I will be focusing on the strengths that I

have recognized from each of these blogs such as this clear separation and the amount of figures

that can help supplement the posting.