Campus Press, Reflexivity, and Broadening Employability Steven Sparling London College of Music
Campus Press was uAlised for Level Six Professional PracAce to: • create a personal website that funcAoned as a markeAng tool • compile a personal electronic porEolio of audiAon materials • engage in reflecAve blogging in response to various prompts (arAcles, podcasts, videos) • learn to use an industry standard website plaEorm
“ePorEolios are not only outcome based – they can assist students to acquire and develop skills in informa4on technology . They provide a way to link student learning to university-wide generic skills – graduate aUributes … The decisions they require allow students high levels of crea4vity and independence in presenta4on of themselves as reflec4ve musicians and educators . They raise issues of professional iden4ty and self-reflec4on , and allow discussion of other areas of pre-service preparaAon, in this way becoming a medium for teaching and learning in themselves .” Dunbar-Hall, P., Rowley, J., Webb, M. and Bell, M., 2010. ePorEolios for music educators: parameters, problems and possibiliAes. In Proceedings of the 29th world conference of the interna4onal society for music educa4on (p. 61).
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12 10 8 Number of students 6 Series1 4 2 0 0 1 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10+ Number of blog posts Student Use of Blogging
“Given the complex nature of careers across the creaAve sectors, the development of employability skills is a high priority for every insAtuAon. As elsewhere, students at the university explore pracAcal techniques and theory, developing both collaboraAve and creaAve skills . What the students tend not to consider is the relevance of this learning to their future lives and careers; and in an already overcrowded curriculum there is liUle space for this discussion. The project aimed to determine whether an ePorEolio could be a means of exploring possible future selves and careers, assis4ng students with the transi4on from student-hood to graduate professional …..” (pp.144-6)” Blom, D., Rowley, J., BenneU, D., Hitchcock, M. and Dunbar-Hall, P., 2014. Knowledge Sharing: Exploring InsAtuAonal Policy and Educator PracAce through ePorEolios in Music and WriAng. Electronic Journal of e- Learning , 12 (2), pp.138-148.
Annual Income from AcAng over £100K, 0.70% £50-100K, 1.50% nothing, 11.20% £20-50K, 11.40% 48.9% earn under £5k £10-20K, 19.10% under £5K, 37.70% £5-10K, 18.30% Equity 2013 Membership Survey n=3804
Wordpress Usage used for 28% of websites (represenAng 59% of the market share) Manage WP (2016) More surprising sta4s4cs about WordPress usage. Available at: hUps://managewp.com/ staAsAcs-about-wordpress-usage (Accessed: 11 May 2017)
• Opportunity to reflect on future selves, explore career opAons and make decisions about how they will posiAon themselves in a crowded market • Engage in reflecAve pracAce, with individual feedback from tutor • Learn to navigate a widely-used sokware programme that gives them further employable skills to support porEolio working
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