~It's my thesis...sorta

Just wanted to invite you all to peruse progress of my e-Portfolio (= my culminating project = my "thesis" = what I need to complete in order to graduate and get my master's). It's not really a thesis in the traditional sense of like this hugely intense research paper. But I've been calling it that cuz it's just easier than explaining what I really have to do. :)

So what I actually have to do is prove that I have met my school's competencies, the skills/knowledge they've determined all librarian & information professionals should have. This involves writing essentially 16 short papers and compiling all the work I've ever done (school work, work work, life, personal projects, almost anything's fair game) in order to serve as evidence of my competency for each point. It's been an interesting process so far. Not nearly as horrendous as I thought it would be when I first started, but I find it a lot easier to write the papers if I have a day or so to mull on the competency and work out what it really means to me. It's surprising how much I have to say about each competency...such deep thoughts I didn't even know I had!

Anyhow, I guess I'll let you guys take a gander at my work as it progresses. I only publicize things that have been reviewed & approved by my adviser so there's work there that you can't see yet. So yeah, take a look at what's consumed so much of my time for the past 1.5 years. And for those of you who were involved in the active online participation survey I sent out a few months ago, you can see the results of that under the evidence for Competency L. It's a research paper, but there are charts that are nice on the eyes. If you really don't wanna see my paper, then you can just look at the unanalyzed data. :) Thanks again for all your support during this whole process. I can't wait to graduate (and then again, I'm in no hurry to start work either *grin*).

And if you want to take a look at my Guide to Taipei website, it's back up for about 6 more months! If you want to listen to soothing sound of my voice...I've also made a podcast and a screencast (but click on the link to watch the original screencast in 640x480 because the embedded one is incompatible with the latest versions of Flash so I'll sound like a chipmunk..which may appeal to you as well)...