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. The ePortfolio aims to demonstrate my advanced skills as a new media researcher and interaction designer as I am currently attempting to progress my career into a role that will allow me to use my new skill set. My Masters of Arts research thesis was called “Designing ePortfolios for post graduate music study. A practice led inquiry“.The exegesis for this Masters by research study was accepted and completed at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane in May 2010.
This weblog is the online version of the exegesis and as such some of the appendices listed in the text are not available here. This is because they are either not linkable as they are off line artefacts or they contain sensitive information about design processes.
There are two abstracts below one in video format and one in text format. In this thesis I ask questions such as how do we ensure that Web 2.0 electronic portfolio systems allow for user friendliness and academic credibility to be built into electronic portfolios .
sooner or later a tale of two e-portfolios systems from Paul Stephensen on Vimeo.
Abstract
Title: Designing ePortfolios for music postgraduate study. A practice-led inquiry.
In this research I have examined how ePortfolios can be designed for Music postgraduate study through a practice led research inquiry. This process involved designing two Web 2.0 ePortfolio systems for a group of five post graduate music research students. The design process revolved around the application of an iterative methodology called Software Develop as Research (SoDaR) that seeks to simultaneously develop design and pedagogy. The approach I implemented to designing these ePortfolio systems applied four theoretical protocols to examine the use of digitised artefacts in ePortfolio systems to enable a dynamic and inclusive dialogue around representations of the students work. Continue reading
