Early on In the I-reflect course I decided to use Blogger.com as my site for displaying my e-portfolio. This is shown in my initial proposal for my E-portfolio. Having almost completed my E-portfolio, I have found a few problems that have arisen, now that I have most of my entries up on the site it has become quite long, and requires a lot of scrolling to navigate through it. Now that I am reflecting on this I think I should have giving Mahara more consideration, while I still do not know how to operate Mahara and am unlikely to do so in the future. I cant help but thinking that I would be better suited for displaying my E-portfolio in a more manageable and user friendly way.

Posting pictures was easy for me, the way you do this is essentially the same as bebo and facebook, already knowing how to do this made it easy to get them on blogger.com. My trouble with pictures was getting them in the position I wanted them. There is the option to put them in the to left top right etc however this is only really relevant if you have text in the same posting, also if the picture was of a normal size it would go across the whole screen, this meant for me that the only viable place was the bottom of the posting. This meant that it forced my pictures down to the bottom of my blog even further away from where most people would look.

Video was my next challenge but it was once that I needed to overcome for my E-portfolio to work at all. When posting videos I decided to you tube rather than blogger.com own internal means for this. I used you tube mainly because people are familiar with it and this would make them feel more at home? that was my intention anyway, also the idea for me was that if in the future, I was to use a different blog site, I would already know how to upload videos to you tube making my skill twice as useful. The actual uploading of the videos was relatively easy, it was however very time consuming (this is because of the slow internet connection I have at home).