Although I am not entering my portfolio for the competition, I hope the materials here will give a sense of where I'm at in my development as an instructor. Presumably, the navigation links to the left are straightforward.
For someone claiming interest in visual rhetorics, the marked lack of images on these pages might seem hypocritical. For justification, I'll refer to a favorite source of web usability guidelines, Jakob Neilsen. I guess I could also defend the minimalism in rhetorical terms: the sparse layout keeps an abundant reserve of available means for use as needed. Or I could be honest and say I've been too busy with reading lists to develop the site I really want to publish.
Of course, there are obvious exceptions to the graphic-less standard. The background image, though it may not look like much, is a detail I enjoy. I created the abstract (hopefully affect-ful) image in Photoshop and tiled it across the pages. Also, the graphic from Wikipedia is another detail I'm proud of. For that one all I did was copy / paste the code they provided. But it's the first year that I've donated to Wikipedia, and this is about the only place I can post one of the graphics they offer.
I should buy a bumpersticker.