An ePortfolio encourages you to reflect on how you understand the various identities you bring into your learning experiences – for example, how you understand yourself as a writer, composer, and learner. So, for this opening post, you are going to think through “Who am I?”
To begin, write down a few quick words that you believe describes who you are. Then ask your family and your friends to describe you in a few to do the same. Next go to your social media (Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, etc.) and look at it as objectively as you can. Then google yourself. What do you find on these various sites? You might ask other people; you might read past journal entries; you might read past teacher responses to tests and/or papers. The goal with these activities: to get a sense about how your various identities merge together.
Some questions to think on:
Who are you …
in an academic setting?
in a social setting?
in a digital setting?
What character traits make you, you?
In the last few years at DU, what have you learned about yourself? What’s been surprising? What’s been intriguing? What’s been confusing?
In creating your response to the question, “Who am I”, you are essentially starting to think about and respond to who you are so you can do this in any way that clearly does this. It could be a traditionally type of response. It could be a narrative that exposes your various identities. It could be a poem. It could be comic.
Whatever you decide to do, please conclude with an “I am” statement (I am x, y, z, a, b, and so on).