Mindmapping...sketching...resume..oh my

So today im feeling a bit overwhelmed..a lot a bit actually.
Not only do i have a lot of work to do for my resume and portfolio, but today is the beginning of recruitment here at Quinnipiac. i am the vice president membership for kappa alpha theta and for the past year, and even more so in the past few months i have been planning and creating thetas recruitment. while it has been an exhausting task, it has also been rewarding and exciting. i have held numerous workshops and mandatory meetings, and along with the help of the membership committee, we have created the theme and breakdown of each recruitment party which will take place within the next few days-and yikes begin in the next few hours. I am very excited-and i may even be attempting to relax myself with the breathing techniques PB taught us today in class!

As for my portfolio process, i have been experiencing days where i feel completely on top of what i have to accomplish, and days where i feel as though i have absolutely no idea about what i got myself into. this is good, normal right?

I created a rough draft version of my mind map last week; it includes internship experience, my courses, resume information, etc. However, after seeing my classmates mindmaps i realized i may have drifted from the original task-neglecting to include some key items. i liked viewing my classmates mindmaps, in that they helped me find the words that i couldn't grasp to describe my "skills", i found that the word "software" was a better term. by seeing other students thought process i was able to learn more and get more ideas for what i will need for my own mindmap. i downloaded a 30 day trial of NovaMind for my computer and began remaking my mindmap, and will hopefully construct one that fully shows who i am and what i can do.

our next assignment is to create 24 sketches of a logo, and 12 compostitions. while i have always loved drawing and sketching, it is when i am put to the test that i sometimes panic. i think that i think too much, and try too hard to be overly creative and outrageous when i try to come up with a logo, which then makes any sort of design look way to processed and complicated. i need to break free of this and just let my creative mind go--

Blog 1 - February 1

Designing a Digital Portfolio Ch.1
Designing a Digital Portfolio

Profession
-how do you define yourself when you are applying for a job, so many descriptions that fall under the same job category
-experience designer
-make sure you know who you are and what you want to do
-variety is good but make sure to have only enough so that it doesnt look like you have yet to find what you are best at
-know what your purpose of your portfolio is
-different categories of portfolio-art/considerable control over the subject, message, media, presentation of their creative work
-enjoy a range of media while you can ( as a student )
-2D Graphics-photographer, graphic artist
-Design-architect designs buildings, interior spaces, and landscapes/industrial design, design products and systems, multimedia designer
-portfolio should emphasize a variety of project briefs, should have a concept that presents the actual work well but is presented in the form of a design project in itself-but not overwhelm the projects
-Freelance/Full time production
-motion graphics-animators: portfolio take two distinct forms, highly compressed low bandwidth sampling on the internet and a richer deeper version on tape or disk
-videographer-captures moving images, have digital and analog portfolios
-performance-good quality film resolution can be very important, digital portfolios offers the opportunity for a performer to establish credibility and provide a good presentation

This section of the reading came to me as both an eye opener and a continuum of some things that i thought i was already aware of when it came to preparing a portfolio. I was interested with the reading when they categorized the different types of portfolios you can create, based on your prime area of expertise.