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Sandboxes and Springboards
crea%veanddigitalmarke%ng.net springboardcourses.ie
Two “digital” modules of six • “Introduc%on to digital marke%ng prac%ce” (how to do stuff)
• “Personal development competences” (what you can do) – Computer lab teaching, expert external speakers and workshops in semester 1
– Project work in semester 2 with op%onal weekly meet-‐up – Facebook group for links, references, social contact – 60% “building block” marks for weekly exercises during semester 1 plus par%cipa%on marks (in-‐class and facebook, for ac%vi%es like website design, video of speakers, peer teaching)
– 40% marks for porMolio and project presenta%on in semester 2
Mixed ability, age, IT skills… • Age range early 20s to late 50s • IT skills on entry ranging from experience in
content-‐managing websites down to barely able to cut and paste but… improved!
• General literacy/wri%ng skills varied from professional to difficulty in composing a basic business leVer
• Jobs market: almost all posts adver%sed from September 2011 to May 2012 requested 1-‐3 years experience – and Google Adwords – and many wanted a 2nd language too…
• Approach: eporMolio evidence of skills star%ng with Blackboard as a private “sandbox”, moving to a curated, public eporMolio – from development to “showcase” – Videos, Google Ads text, LinkedIn Profiles, blog pos%ng, Google
analy%cs reports, Slideshare presenta%ons, facebook business pages
Video: Margaret Smith • In a fast-‐moving subject like digital marke%ng you have to use
expert prac%%oners…
• Margaret Smith runs the Umnumnum Cookery school and came in to talk about using TwiVer for community management – For each speaker I encouraged a different student to video their talk so
they would learn basic filming, edi%ng, YouTube upload, tagging etc. and these type of ac%vi%es formed the basis for the porMolios.
hVp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Ur_X3-‐tzs
What we wanted students to do… • Reflect upon their own learning, performance and
achievement
• Plan for their personal, educa%onal and career development, including extra-‐curricular ac%vi%es.
• Collect purposefully the story of their efforts, progress or achievement.
• Make sense of the work and culminate in a curated or edited “story” that is publicly available to employers or clients, reflec%ng real tasks accomplished.
• The level of guidance and support decreases during the PDP process as personal capabili%es develop, with the inten%on of the process becoming self-‐sustaining.
• I do not think we achieved the last point – but is it realisEc?
Enterprise model of PDP October bank holiday: stressing trying to create a relevant rubric
to explain to the students, I found Norman Jackson’s wiki:
hVp://personaldevelopmentplanning.pbworks.com/w/page/2110913/FrontPage
Hidden away here and never officially published… says Norman…
It %ed in really well with work my former colleague Dr Catherine O’Mahony carried out for NAIRTL in 2009 surveying what employers, academics and students want as graduate competences.
• Pitching ideas and persuading others of their value
• Communica%ng clearly and appropriately, demonstra%ng a sense of audience
• Producing content that is literate, numerate and coherent in an appropriate medium.
• Engaging in research or produc%ve enquiry to find things out in order to do what is necessary
• Managing informa%on effec%vely in a range of media
• Building partnerships and collabora%ons and networking
• Being resourceful with exis%ng resources or crea%ng new assets
• Brokering by bringing people, ideas and resources together and inspiring them with a vision
• Working with others to achieve specific objec%ves • Designing, making and producing crea%ve and digital media content
• Selling, or performing another specialist ac%vity closely related to crea%ve and digital marke%ng.
• Demonstra%ng customer focus and service orienta%on
• Ac%ng in an ethical manner demonstra%ng poli%cal, social and cultural awareness
Problems • Students found Blackboard Campus eporMolio pack hard, especially
sharing journals with the tutor – next year we will use the main journal feature but set to private. Too many clicks, too confusing to get to (“add new entry” buVon). Facebook’s changed the game!
• Excellent proprietary systems (eg Kent, Dundee) have the difficulty that they are not likely to be maintained ater the student leaves – so effort is wasted.
• Timing: other modules overran, porMolios got squeezed by exam deadlines
Assessment Rubric • Combined elements from a number of the referenced
publica%ons and websites
• Presented to students and discussed middle of term 1 • Added “bonus points” for evidence of use of mul%media
• Based around a “signpost document” for each student linked to all the pieces of evidence
• PlaMorm independent – students could choose where to do their “showcase” as long as it was easily accessible for prospec%ve employers or clients. But most used the course microsites
• I can send the rubric to anyone interested…
Developments for next year • Wordpress mul%user student “microsites” under course
website umbrella (idea from hVp://edc.educa%on.ed.ac.uk/ )
• A useful skill they could see employers valued (content management with Wordpress) while crea%ng their external porMolio
• Microsites will be in place from the start next year for those brave enough to move on from the Blackboard sandbox
• More DePTA / peer porMolio assessment and peer teaching
• More bonus points for using mul%media
What did I learn? • Most only did what the assessment demanded
• Those with poor IT and wri%ng skills found it harder: course entry requirements require revision.
• They nearly got more out of crea%ng good about.me pages that linked their social media presences than the eporMolio
• Rewri%ng and peer-‐reviewing their cvs, crea%ng LinkedIn profiles and visualise.me graphic resumes, all worked well.
• Without the first-‐week Skype talk from industry recruiter Roseanne Smith, the eporMolio exercise would have been irrelevant to the students.
• The course “worked” overall – 8 in jobs (one emigrants), 2 star%ng businesses, 3 interning out of a cohort of 17 (4 dropouts)
• EporMolio marking is %me-‐consuming – have a clear rubric.
Denis O’Mahoney example
If Denis doesn’t get a good job out of this course in the end, I’ll eat my hat… Applica%ons for this, (and 5 other digital marke%ng courses from other ins%tu%ons), now being taken on the Springboard website…
References Arter JA, Spandel V, 1992. NCME Instruc%onal Module: Using PorMolios of Student Work in Instruc%on and
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Eraut M. (2009). Learning to be Professional through Higher Educa%on. Available at: hVp://learningtobeprofessional.pbworks.com/w/page/15914947/FrontPage
Gordon J, “Assessing students’ personal and professional development using porMolios and interviews”, 2003. Medical Educa%on volume 37, pp335-‐340 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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hVp://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-‐porMolios-‐7-‐reasons-‐why-‐i-‐dont-‐want.html
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