Happy Monday y’all… of course by the time you read this, Monday will be in the rear view mirror. After setting up the high top table workstation I spent the rest of the morning/day updating my academic portfolio on my blog: https://joebustillos.com/joe-bustillos-academic-portfolio/ . 

I started the other day, working backwards beginning with my Pepperdine doctorate courses  and Masters program . Having used the WordPress theme for a bit, I had some ideas on how to clean up the presentation using Headers for every class and eliminating header images for other course components like papers, handouts and notes. I hit the wall last night when I started working on my Masters portfolio because the first course I started with, Collaborative Action Research  had so many components, that I was still working on that one course most of today. The basic format is that each class has a landing page (post) with at least one work example on the page and buttons to the other work, notes or information related to the class. The Action Research class had three buttons, one to the syllabus and course information and one button to a course journal and five documents and the third to course notes on nine books/articles read for assignments. There are ten more courses that need to be reformatted for my masters program portfolio. After I finished the one course, I decided to jump ahead and knock out the six courses I had in my Fuller Seminary portfolio , partially because each course had only two components to deal with and I could do all six course in much less time than it took me to do the one Pepperdine course. Of course, it’s natural to ask why one would bother with all of this work?

Academic Portfolio: Pepperdine EdD.

When I finished my masters in 2002 I had posted all of my course work on a student website (which was part of at least one course instruction), so that began the idea that one way of sharing one’s academic work was to create an online portfolio of ones work. When I worked on my doctorate in 2005, it seemed to be less emphasized, but I was of a mind that that was what I was going to do with all of my academic work. So for the past 20-years I’ve moved my work from platform to platform as I’ve progressed from straight Web 1 HTML to a couple blogging platforms to the current self-hosted WordPress/DIVI-elegant theme incarnation. That doesn’t exactly answer why I do all of this work. But I do regularly visit or revisit the work when I’m job-search mode, like in 2020 and 2014 and 2008 and 2005…. 

Academic Portfolio: Pepperdine OMAET

Academic Portfolio: Fuller Seminary M.A. in Theology

A bit more basic than having a cool portfolio that no one will probably see, is that as a writer I feel like I need to have as fiction-less access to prior work that I can mine for ongoing research and writing. It’s a walk down memory lane that’s more about resurfacing old ideas than simple nostalgia. There’s also the possibility that when I get to the point where I need to program my robotic-replacement that I’ll have all of my life’s work one button press away from being consumed and assimilated by my A.I. persona. 😎🤖🤖