Quick Mock up of a Professional CV

From the look of  my 'professional cv' I need professional help to improve it. I have done some research and found some sites and businesses that help imrove your cv.  So I'm going to try them out. So watch out for my new and improved cv. Coming soon.

Professional CV

       Sheika Edwards

Sheika.edwards@gmail.com

Teaching

Irie Dance Theatre

The Norwood School

Journey2Greatness

Rks Community Solutions

RYDT Rehearsals

TV/Video

Lovers Rock Production

Menelik Shabaz

OH Tv promotion video for

‘Da Truth’

Diahgev Music BB film productions

So you think you can Dance auditions

Choreography

Irie Dance Theatre

Red Cross Fundraiser

Performance

Hammersmith Apollo

BAFTA Awards Conference

Gaumont State theatre

Connecting Vibes

Ruach Ministries Youth Conference

Jacksons Lane Theatre

Dance united Lyric Theatre

Lewisham College Tour / End of year show

Training and Qualifications

Current BA Professional Practice Work based Learning

FD African & Caribbean Dance

 Irie Dance Theatre, City & Islington & London Metropolitan University

2 years Lewisham College Foundation Dance/ Access to Dance (Level 3)

1 year Kensington and Chelsea College

Mission Impossible?

In my previous post I shared with everyone my frustration with a friend of mine posting a not so flattering picture of me on FB (face book).

Knowing that my friend is a lovely considerate person who didn’t set out to hurt me does give me some comfort and some humour to the situation but there are people who I don’t know, who maybe don’t have good intentions which makes the following question very serious question:

 How much control do we have on our own information once we put it into the net?

In response to this question I will be on a mission that (I do choose to accept) should give us an idea of how much control we have over our personal details. I will attempt to erase the picture of me at my fancy dress birthday party. Will you join me and become agents? Do your own investigation and try to delete a picture from face book. See for yourselves  try and track a picture or a piece of information about yourself and then try to retract that piece of information. Be sure to post your findings as I will be, if you choose to accept this mission?!

Operation: “Bye Bye Baby”

Aim: Delete incriminating birthday pic

My Peace

Self Employment

I am trying to finally register as self employed because I am getting more opportunities for teaching. Recently I did a job for the Norwood School in South London and had to send them an invoice for the work I did. I’ve finally found a clear template for an invoice and thought that the self employed among you would appreciate it and those that are a little nervous about becoming self employed that it doesn’t have to be complicated.

To:

From: National Insurance Number: Address: Tel: Mob: Email:

Date of invoice: Invoice No:  Description of Work Date of work:

TOTAL COST                                                                              BACS Details Bank: Sort Code: Account Number:

Why so blogged off?

After some reflection I realise why I had such a problem with that picture of my birthday party being posted on face book. Well, firstly when I took the photo it was in the context of the private comfort of my own home and the fact that at the time I was posing for this photo I had no thought of it being put in to a public context; not of my choice and without my consent! It felt like my right to decide what aspect of my life I share was taken out of my hands, which raises an issue of Image Management.

From the beginning of my decision to become a ‘book face’ as I call it, I was very aware of and tried to avoid the usual misdemeanours of users of face book. How? I was very careful about whom I added as a friend for one. Even people I’d say I know reasonably well had to be scanned. By scanned I mean before I added someone as a friend I’d look and read through their profile and if I saw something i.e. pictures, comments that would be offence to me or someone I knew i.e. swearing, half naked pictures etc I would not add that person. This may mean me being given the title of 'prude' amongst my peers but as I currently work with young people and knowing that I am a person of influence, I’ll gladly take the title. I didn’t just check the profiles of the people I knew but who they knew because I find truth in ‘Show me your company, I’ll show you who you are’. So for me to take precautions and still get stung is in a word, annoying!

Social networking sites and the web in general are feeding the notion of ‘You can be whatever you want to portray yourself as', which is something I found fault in. This is a large part of the appeal and success of many web-based technologies and is an aspect that I believe a large number of people are taking advantage of and was a point that came up in the ‘Does Web Technologies enhance Professional Practice?’ session. In the session, good Self Management was a solution in the conclusions of all the groups as the most important way to safe guard ourselves against ideas theft and other cons of web based technologies. Laura Jane Weir shared some advice from her agent who suggested she have two accounts one personal and professional, which was good advice which at the time I didn’t really consider but now appreciate. The general consensus of the group was that self management was a key point in the usage of these technologies. Personally, I’ll even go as far as using an alias.

Is anyone else safe guarding themselves?  

Please let me know what you are doing to safe guard your ideas and information and if you’ve discovered any pitfalls to avoid.

What in the web is up wiv' that!!

Fashionably late as usual…but the best ‘til last?!

What has revived this topic for me?-Well, recently I discovered that although I can deactivate my face book account, I can never actually delete my account. Is this common knowledge? This information as only confirmed my initial suspicions and qualms with web technologies, social networking sites in particular. It always seems that you have to give up so much information just to gain some small privilege, i.e. having to sign up to websites in order to watch movies when you have this feeling that you’re signing your life away. Prior to my engagement with face book my suspicions were most fuelled by experiences of friends. More worryingly were the news reports highlighting cases where disagreements escalated on social networking sites ended in violence. To me it seems these cases stemed from a flippant comment posted can be mulled over and analysed for hours by another. This shows how the media context can change meaning because traditionally writing letters was a private affair and was something the writer took time to think about because unlike these websites it costs money.

Recently, I had first hand experience of “How did that end up on face book?” For this years’ birthday celebration I had a fancy dress party, where I decided that if I had one wish I would turn back time so I dressed up as a baby. On the night I was in good cheer and wanted to make the most of the theme as I had never been invited to a fancy dress party never mind thrown one. I did pose for pictures but I was still horrified to see it had been posted on face book by a good friend of mine. “How can a picture that you posed for; cause such shock and disturbance?” you may ask and I ask myself? Answer? Nobody asked me! Common courtesy, not so common anymore! For me this is the danger that begs the question why is it all the rules change and boundaries “go out the window” when it comes to the web???

"Baby Got Blog!"

Get your blog on!

I’ve been fighting it for awhile now but I have finally been thrust into the world of technology. After the failed attempts of my friends and the encouragement of my former course leaders to bring me into the twenty first century it is the BAPP course at Middlesex that has cracked this nut!

Well, if I haven’t been in the twenty first century which one have I been in? I do have an ipod, a laptop, a dongle and even a face book account. I’m a ‘normal’ young person of today, aren’t I? On the face of it maybe but let’s go a little deeper. What if I told you that it was only late this summer that I bought an ipod and I still am unaware of what it can do, I can’t even upload songs onto it, I get my friends to do it for me, don’t think I haven’t tried though. I’ve had a face book account for a few months, but literally I could count on one hand the amount of times I’ve actually logged into my account and consequently have sent only one message and never posted on anyone’s “wall”, whatever that means, I haven’t seen even a picture of a wall whilst roaming on face book! I mean does anyone else get over whelmed with the amount of messages; friend requests and comments that you get sent! The screen to my laptop is cracked and I don’t have internet service at home because my dongle isn’t working. I tell you all this to say; for me, this is really a challenging course because its very nature is alien to me. This is why it’s taken me this long to start my blog because I was out shopping for the cheese to catch the mouse needed to operate this computer! Seriously though, I’m going to have to educate myself about what is available and even that is going to take me adapting my lifestyle. I still believe that these web technologies shouldn’t run your life and that even though they are cash free they are costly i.e. time consuming and time is life and life is short enough! I have to admit that I am somewhat of a convert because I must say that FOR NOW I do need media technologies. I can’t believe I just said that.

I end my first blog with those two things, firstly a salute to you who have been using media technologies for awhile, long before this course and have used it to enhance and inform your practice whatever that may. I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I am open to all the help you can offer. Lastly, I’d like to encourage those that are still finding their feet and for now see blogging as more of a chore, with these words…soldier on slowly (maybe) but SURELY (definitely).