About Me
The "About Me" section is a place for you to introduce your target audience
to the "you" of this website.
Remember that your TLC website has multiple purposes and audiences. We'll use the WIX for assessment in our TLC, and you can use it as part of your Electronic Personal Development Portfolio [ePDP] too.
OPTIONS: Digital College Binder? Professional Resume?
You might want to keep this WIX as a digital binder of college projects. That's fine. You can add projects and tabs to your website each semester, then share your work with family and friends. You might create a duplicate of this TCM ePortfolio, then shape it to be a digital resume area with emphasis on you professionally rather than you as a student.
These digital spaces will live on until you decide to take them down.
Make your website work for you.
For our TLC ePortfolio, SHARE A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF HERE. Your entry can be short, like Contributor's Notes we looked at in the New England Review. Or, you can go long, like Michael Martone did in his Contributor's Notes turned short story. This is also a good spot to re-tell the reader of your intentions. Are you sharing work from your first semester Themed Learning Community? Are you sharing academic works and professional goals? Think about how you want the audience to approach your work in the ePortfolio, and how you want them to conceptualize you as the author/creator.
Manage Your Public Presence
It is wise to carefully manage your online presence. You may not want your boss at Microsoft to read your historical-biographical analysis of Vonnegut or see drafts you shared as part of peer review. From time to time, Google your name to see what shows up. A friend of mine found a photo of she took with several friends posted on a hateful website. She appealed to the website's host provider to get it taken down.
I Am Poem
The first "I Am!" poem was written by John Clare as he contemplated his shifting identities
in the Northampton Lunatic Asylum.
Clare's poem is included below along with a link to the Poetry Foundation website which provides biographic materials on many talented poets as well as access to their poetry.
For the TLC students, you will share your own versions of an "I Am!" poem on this page of your website. The poem will explore emerging identities as your begin college, shape an academic plan, and chart career paths for future successes.
I Am!
BY JOHN CLARE
I am—yet what I am none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes—
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes
And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life or joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
Even the dearest that I loved the best
Are strange—nay, rather, stranger than the rest.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below—above the vaulted sky.