Portfolio-ing

I stopped blogging here for some reason. I could say I've been too busy with school, but that wouldn't be entirely true. But I can say that now I plan to post somewhat regularly and with a purpose! You see, I'm going to be finishing my masters program in December and an essential step in doing that is completing and presenting my "Learning Portfolio" so I can prove that I've learned what they wanted me to learn in the program and it wasn't a complete waste of everyone's time.

I won't bore you (or myself) with the details, but basically the portfolio consists of two long papers (12 pages) and several short papers/reflections. We have to send drafts of our longer papers to our portfolio advisers a predetermined times, and the first one is due September 1.... which is very soon. This first paper is about the "Conceptual Territories" of the Reading/Writing/Literacy program, which are: interdisciplinarity (not even a real word), inquiry, diversity and change. How vague, right?

I've been trying to tackle each conceptual territory at a time and I've got inquiry, diversity and change started in a way that almost makes sense. I've been struggling with interdisciplinarity because what does that even mean?

I have a little over a week to figure it out and put it all together, so I'll let you know how that goes.

Oh, and I've got this kitten now and she tries to eat all my books/pens/post-its. It's cute half of the time.