Ashley's+Introduction

Hello and welcome to my first faith anatomy portfolio! This portfolio includes all of my best works throughout my first first semester of my anatomy class. Each of these collections focus on different topics my class covered in anatomy, from tissues to joints and blog reflections to wiki sites, and I learned information I never knew from every single one. Some of my collections are reflections on what I learned, and others are displays of my work through projects and slide shows. I hope for the audience to gain a clear understanding of the topics discussed in my portfolio. My portfolio is created so that the viewer may click on one of the eight links to look at the different artifacts, and then navigate back easily to the homepage located on the left side. My portfolio is easy to read yet it explains all the different topics in depth that I have studied, such as the epithelial (skin) tissue; joints of the body, particularly the knee; osteochondroma, a type of bone disorder; and even a reflection of the Bodies exhibit that our class took a trip to see. I did not, unfortunately, use all of my works as artifacts, but I chose the ones that I thought best represented what I learned and what I liked learning about the most. The wiki page on the skeletal system, for example, was one of my favorites. My page was on the bone disorder osteochondroma. Although others contributed to the site, the majority of the page was created by myself using different books on bone that my dad had since he is an orthopedic surgeon. I also enjoyed collaborating on the joint-wiki project because I thought the whole joint-webquest experience was helpful in the final project, especially the multiple choice section on joints. Another blog I included was a reflection on a video of the architecture of our body. The film really affected me, probably because it included swimming, my major sport, which made it more interesting and easier to write about. Overall, all of my works have information on a subject of the human anatomy that the audience can learn about and hopefully enjoy as much as I did when creating these artifacts. Some are only reflections on different experiences I had learning about anatomy, such as watching the Architecture of Our Bodies film and the Bodies exhibit; however, the blogs are still full of interesting facts I learned, and hopefully when reading through my portfolio you will find something you did not know about the human body as well.