After I purchased the domain name DamianBariexca.net, I sat on it for a good couple of weeks before I actually attached it to a website. I spent a good amount of time considering what I wanted the website to look like and what information should appear on it, but I…
Category: Reflection
A Digital Digression, Pt. 2
After shedding my online pseudonyms and assuming my aggressive policy of online identity management, I purchased some domain names that are variations on my real name. Initially, I purchased Bariexca .net and .com because I wasn’t really sure which one I wanted to use, and I guess I figured I…
A Digital Digression, Pt. 1
Before I continue on about the evolution of my portfolio, I wanted to stop a minute to address what’s often called, for lack of a better term, “digital identity”. In my estimation, this term can encompass a number of things: anything you have created that exists on the web anything…
My Introduction to Portfolios
My first experience putting together a teaching portfolio was in my undergraduate teacher training program. The specifics elude me a decade after the fact, but I remember that in the year or so between my Junior Professional Experience (think “student teaching lite”) and the end of student teaching, I was…
Portfolios & Digital Identity
Some time in late fall or early winter, I got the bright idea to re-vamp my professional portfolio. Little did I know at the time what kind of a rabbit hole I’d be going down, but now that I’ve (more or less) come out the other side, I wanted to…