Documenting your work: Creating an Artifact for your portfolio
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Documenting and reflecting on your work in a consistent and regular way is a critical part of building your portfolio. In technical theater you are experiencing events and creating knowledge constantly. Often we do not realize what we have learned. Keeping a variety of documentation and creating or collecting artifacts is an essential skill to demonstrate you actually know what you claim you know. It used to be that having a diploma would verify that you had achieved a certain level of competency in a given discipline-- But now, in the 21st Century and the complicated, rapidly changing interconnected world we live in today, it is important to demonstrate your competencies with well documented relevant experiences. Your portfolio is evidence of your learning journey and provides verifiable evidence of your competencies. As part of your course work in this class and in the Associate of Arts Degree, I will be asking you to create your portfolio, contributing to it throughout the semester and your college career. The intent is for this activity to become a habit in your life long learning journey.
What is an Artifact?
What is an artifact? Anything that documents or represents an activity or event that you participated in or created qualifies as an artifact. You can think of it as a type of souvenir. In the context of a performance that you attended or were part of, it could be a ticket stub, a program, photos, a video you made, reviews, set lists, autographs from the star, even a poster. It says, "I was here, this is what I learned or experienced. "