You will be prompted, weekly, for various items to archive. Please refer to the Google Docs document in the e-Portfolio folder in Bb, which will provide tips on how to store and organize these artifacts. By the time this component of your eP is due, you will have a rich repository from which to draw. You will choose the top five artifacts that you believe best represent your learning experience in this course. Each item should contain a representative picture and a summary for why it was selected, including why it is representative of your learning experience.
Top Artifact 3
For this artifact, I chose the item to archive from Module 13. I picked this one because I really like how it made me reflect on myself throughout the years. I got to determine what things made me happy consistently as I got older and what changed. This was very eye opening to see how I matured over the years and what happiness has meant to me throughout my life. As I got older, I started to cherish more people and memories instead of physical objects. This was interesting to me because I know that different people can feel their happiness in material goods or in non-material goods or it can change like mine did,over time.
This artifact expanded my knowledge of the topic because I rarely ever make the connection with health and happiness but this module and item to archive touched on that. Happiness can make a person want to display the best version of themselves. On the other hand, having low happiness can lead to low health. It has been shown that mental illnesses like depression, which is little to no emotions, can affect emotional and physical health
Top Artifact 2
For this artifact I chose the activity from Module 10 about time. Time has always been tricky for me and this activity just solidifies that. Like many westerners, I am one of those people that personally believes I never have enough time in the day to do things. However, I don’t stress or beat myself up for anything that I didn’t get to d during the day. I also found that I don’t mind waiting and spending more time to wait for a person in my life to arrive. Life is random and uncontrollable sometimes and people are late, it is out of my control so I don’t stress about it. I also know that there are times when I have been late for things and my friends and family have been understanding and I would want to treat them the same.
Another reason that I wouldn’t mind waiting for someone is that I don’t really have a great sense of time. I can’t really tell the difference between 5 minutes, an hour, to multiple hours. All my time sort of blends together and sometimes I think time is shorter and sometimes it feels longer so I really have no idea how long I have been waiting for someone if I did wait. An example is that a few days ago I was waiting for my friend to pick me up from my house. She was coming from Hampton and I live in Virginia Beach, she told me she would be at my house in an hour and when she got there I said wow that was fast it only took 20 minutes. I looked at my phone from the time she called me to the time she got there and it had actually been a little over an hour.
Top Artifact 1
This is a picture of my family and I in front of a restaurant in Richmond, called McLean’s Restaurant. I chose this picture as a representation of my culture. The first significance of this is that my mother’s maiden name is McLean and we have family that can also be traced to Richmond. This is a good visual image of my family and culture because cooking is something that has always been important in my family on both sides and throughout many generations. My grandparents and great-grandparents and my family before them grew up very poor, in the south, and with big families. Cooking was one of the few things that they could do together to enjoy each other’s company without spending unnecessary money and they would even cook enough to sell to the people at their jobs for a little extra change! Cooking has always been a love language in my household and in my family