Introduction

This website will be a number of weblogs that provides me with a virtual space were I can publish elements of my masters by research. The reason I have chosen this method to publish elements of my research is that it will give my academic supervisors and key stakeholders a public place to provide comments and feedback on my work.

It is important to note however that I will not be publishing the multimedia artefacts or information that will identify my project participants due to my universities ethical standards policy.

This website will also become my own learning ePortfolio that demonstrates how I have developed the design of my thesis and the research that underpins it.

Ostensibly my thesis provides discussions on how creative arts students, from all disciplines, are now using popular social networking sites such as Youtube.com and Myspace.com.

The main elements will include:

• a discussion on how I established a new electronic open source portfolio system;
• a discussion on how a cohort of 5 post graduate music students used that system;
• provide an annotated discussion of the project participants ePortfolios;
• provide an annotated discussion of my own ePortfolio;
• a presentation and analysis of the data and evidence gathered;
• present a new theoretical framework that can be used to design and critique the use of ePortfolios in a Web 2.0 environment.

Download Paul Stephensen’s CV here