Reflection, Critical Commentary, Portfolio - it's All Coming Together

If you're a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, there's a sporting chance you will be polishing off some kind of portfolio or reflective journal this weekend.  Lots of courses have critical assessments of some description due for submission very soon.

How can the library help?  Do you need to cite references?  Could you do with any more reading matter, just to give weight to a theory or argument? (Or, indeed, to argue with?)

Maybe you could use a book on reflective practice, or learning journals, to see what approach other people have taken?

Or are you wondering if there's anything you could access online, to save having to make an unscheduled trip into the library?  Articles?  Recordings?  Maybe a play or opera production?

We're here for you!  Get in early, ask us today and we'll offer whatever help we can.  And don't forget, there's plenty of information on the library portal, and even more on our e-resources pages.

• Portal (the Library is under Student Support)
• RCS Library and IT pages for our e-resources & contact details

Storify

Storify - http://storify.com/

Have you experimented with Storify? It's a way of bringing together different websites etc, to - no kidding! - tell a story.  Your unique story.

• You could use it to bring a collection of resources together for a project.  Drama Librarian Alan Jones has experimented with this: here's his Re-Act: Referencing E-Learning for ACTors. Voice training. 
• Or try it as a kind of professional activity portfolio, to compliment your CV.  I had a go at using Storify this way myself - here's the result. (I added in a couple of extramural things as well!)

E-portfolios at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The Conservatoire made it into the JISC RSC Scotland* Newsfeed for its work with e-portfolios! The Interviewer talked to Aaron Shorr, Head of Keyboard and Collaborative Piano Studies, Andy Dougan, Lecturer in Digital Film and TV,  Silviya Mihaylova, Keyboard and Collaborative Piano Studies student, Alicia Shaw, Digital Film and TV student

 Read on ...

* JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland