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sooner or later a tale of two e-portfolios systems from Paul Stephensen on Vimeo.

Overview

This electronic portfolio is a series of interlinked Web 2.0 enabled weblogs which implements a slightly modified version of the popular Weblog software Wordpress-Mu which I have developed and implemented for my masters by research project. The reason I modified Wordpress-MU was so that creative practitioners would be able to embed and share their digitalized performances into an open source weblog which would become an online resume, or electronic portfolio. The ePortfolio would then become an online showcase of the creative practitioner’s creative works which could enable the creative practitioner to gain further employment or performance grants. An increase in employment for creative practitioners would generate greater income levels and thus contribute to the growth of a Nations or communities financial wealth and long term sustainability. If the creative practitioner decided to travel between countries or communities their electronic portfolio could become an employment passport which could in theory help them to gain employment more easily, as their electronic portfolio could demonstrate how proficient and experienced they are in their given field of creative practice.

One of the affordances of this type of model is that a creative practitioner can now embed music, videos, photographs and software code or video documentaries of their work thus enabling them to realise their creative product into one digitaly centralised online location. The ePortfolio system used here enables the creative practitioner to share their creative digital content by either up-loading it to their own web server or for their creative practice to be shared from Web 2.0 websites such as Flickr.com, Youtube.com, and Last.fm and Vimeo.com which can then be integrated within their own centralized electronic portfolio by the creative practitioner. For the creative practitioner this now means that they can have the conversations about their performative works sit next to the online discussions about their creative works from their academic peers, industry experts and other performers.

The methods used here also allow the creative practitioner to create a small online community of practice which would enable them to discuss their works and how they can become more knowing practitioners through reflective and creative practice. The model and theories that I offer here also enables the creative practitioner to publish their works online using a number of copyright and attribution schemes to protect, license or sell their creative product in partnerships with industry or as free-lance agents.

Please feel free to email me via the contact me tab if you would like to ask me any questions about the technologies and methods which I have used to create my electronic portfolio and the software that supports it.

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