Module 1 Session Part 1 Professional Communication

Please see below some slides from tonight's session: it should link to blogs to be done by Lucy, Abby, Eleanor, Emma, and Shannon - thanks everyone good session - share the insights. The blogs are up on an earlier blog....

Module 1 5.10.16 Session 1 from Paula Nottingham

Here are some slides I did earlier for the start of the study period...

Induction BAPP Arts 27.9.16 from Paula Nottingham

Thanks

Thanks everyone for today's sessions for Module 1! Really good conversations - I will put up slides with notes asap.

Module 1 session Wed 18th Nov

8^th WEEK of 16^th November

Module 1 Online Session:

Module 1: Part 3: The Networked Professional

Wednesday 18th of November at 1pm (for people who cannot do the evening session)

AND

at 8pm Wednesday 18^th November

Please come prepared with questions and comments about networking and communities of practice.  There are some ideas in Reader 3, and you might want to bring more to discuss! Make sure to get the reading form the Reading list form the My Learning module site. If you have not had time - attending might help you find out where you are in your thinking - so come one and come all!

Please let mw know who to expect by putting your name in the comments of this blog. If you need another time – please put that in the comments…

THIS session will be online in the new BAPP Arts Meeting Room space http://breeze.mdx.ac.uk/bapparts/ and join this url.

(headphones are good for feedback)

I will have my Skype ready if this space does not work out for discussion.

I will try to audio tape a bit of this session – so summarising the session on audio to share with others. (Lara our student re has reminded me to try to do this again!!!- as Dani has done in the past - so will leave a space for this!!).

Module 1 sessions for Part 3

Module 1 sessions for part 3

In this session - please look for blogs from: Lisa, Irini (am), Tom , Laura, Catharine, Jessica,  and Katrina (pm)- have I left anyone out?

For this session on Part 3 we talked about networking and the Critical Reflection assignment (which you can send in as a draft to your adviser for written feedback).

We talked about interviews and auditions - and this led into a discussion about networks. Good to look at Reader 3 and the Reading List for this part.

First we took one of the ideas - from Lave and Wenger (1991) in the Reader - and discussed how Wenger went further to theorise about communities of practice.

Important ideas here - about legitimate peripheral participation - so when you start as a 'novice' in a group you have to learn how to do things and how that group operates - in the am we talked about how temporary jobs - like catering - are a form of community of practice (CoP)

Here is a good overall link form infer
http://infed.org/mobi/jean-lave-etienne-wenger-and-communities-of-practice/

Wenger has a current website http://wenger-trayner.com/etienne/

We looked at a few of the diagrams in Wenger's 1998 book talking about how communities have (p. 73).

• joint enterprise 
• mutual engagement
• shared repertoire

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how in communities you go from participation to reification - when ideas are formed and then put into writing - then things change and the process repeats itself  (p. 63)

it is here on the link after the peripheral participation diagram
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/situated.htm

This was just an example of how theory be used to understand practice - so when you are thinking about your own groups/networks - try drawing out some circles and noting who you know - and what you have in common e.g. joint enterprise - are you doing something together (an event), mutual engagement - working to create something together, shared repertoire - things that everyone in the group understands as the way to do things!

Check out this archived blog!
http://lauraweir2001.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/3b-communities-of-practice.html

Just found this link for networks - love the graphics...
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/09/24/the-social-media-guide-growing-your-personal-learning-network/

On the BAPP Arts programme we do not give extensions except when individuals have dyslexia reports (I need to have these on record so send if that is the case with yourself) - however - please note - some people who started late on BAPP Arts because of significant problems beyond their control will be given an alternative submission time for this study period only - I will contact those individuals. Otherwise - please discuss the need to defer with your adviser...

Help to visualise the format or layout for Module 1 in diagram/pictures

Campus Session 2 Module 1 29.10.14

Apologies for lateness... here is what we talked about from my view...

Mainly we are seg-waying into Part 2 Reflective Practice -

Attending - Lisa, Sarah and Lynn Terry - all might have blogs up already!!

1. Reviewed Part 1 - most had done some but not all of the tasks - tasks are not marked they are there to help guide the learning journey - you don't have to film yourself - you can use pictures and voice overs or text - up to you... I call them nouns - think about using people, places, things and events - always get permission if you put peoples photos up online

Also online remember your ethical practice - these are public so your writing up about what you do should keep in mind how others might view the blog posts...

2. Reviewed Part 2 - the reflective journal will be a place where you can put down things you might not be able to on the blog - write incidents - sometimes 'critical incidents' that are out of the ordinary - but it is amazing what we miss from looking at what we do on a daily/weekly basis. Sarah said that looking at her working form another point of view was helpful.

Look at the ideas/theories in Reader 2  - this goes with Part 2 - so ideas about learning using reflective practice - when you talk about the ideas - 'cite' who the ideas came from - so if an idea came form Schon - cite this using the Reader or even his own writing. The Bibliography of the Module Handbook shows things in Harvard style - you don't have to read all the sources - but follow up on any ideas that interest you through web research - you may feel compelled to look at some sources in there original state. The important thing is to find ways to look at your experience.

Again - searching - use key words to help Google - use Google Scholar and the Summon feature in the Library section on MyUnihub to investigate ideas that might inform your practice. Remember audio-visual sources.

2d is an important one - here you are beginning to think about what interests you - this is one you mint come back to for planning an inquiry in Module 2 - but don't worry about fixing any 1 area of interest now - this is just beginning to throw out your net to catch ideas...

3. For the later part of the session we had a bit of fun - we tried out using our senses for reflection.

SO  remember using all your senses - and think about how these inform your thinking - intelligence is not just cognitive writing - we express ourselves in many ways...

1. smelling unidentified smells - and seeing what they reminded us of EXAMPLES were popcorn, marmite, a beef stock cube, and lavender - all brought out different recollections and sensations

2. movement - we all improvised our morning routines - this was interesting as everyone acted in separate realms and yet there were links in what we were doing - and how we ends the routine - drinking tea or standing and eating - Lisa said heres is never the same - characterisation and movement - - well you all have had this in classes - but try it out using your own experiences...

3. touch - shaking hands - USA style - british Style- European style - all different - so cultural ideas go along with experience and sensation

4. scary story (homage and thanks to Adesola for this idea0 good for Halloween - you really do get caught up in the oral tradition - say a line and the next person follows this with more of the story - in this case with a horror theme...

5. visual - think about putting pictures in your journal - to describe experience or just for inspiration - I showed people an activity with pictures I have been doing with Inktober on my Instagram
http://instagram.com/lifelonglearnerldn

we all said we would try to do this more - here is an example of just colours I took in class - I also talk a bit about composition and colour - but I will put that in another blog!!!

The business of Google Module 1 - freedom and commerce within our Web 2.0 world

There are a number of articles about the business of google and what this, and perhaps other servers mean to our ability to connect with others and ideas.

Like how they run the copyright within the rule of law - or rule of commerce.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19959306

an academic point of view http://brabazon.net/google

... but what do these arguments mean to our ability to connect and reflect in a public space?
http://www.downes.ca/post/57737

and learning?

Module 1 3730 Advice for those who have not started...

Go to the BAPP Libguide and go to the Induction tab and go to 'How to get started' that is posted as a pdf on the right of the page. Read this handout. Start a google account and start a Google blog.

Go to the Module 1 tab on theBAPP Libguide. Read the Module 1 Handbook. The Module Handbook is presented in three parts. For each part , there is a Reader that gives you excerpts to read.  Part 1 = Reader 1, Part 2 = Reader 2 and  Part 3 = Reader 3. The Readers help with aligning the theories that we suggest you look at and apply to your own professional practice. The tasks in the Handbook mainly go up on your blog.

Get in touch with me by phone or skype for further help. This contact information is on the Libguide and the academic adviser email I sent you.

I have put up the YouTube summaries form the 3 groups form the first Campus Session Alan led on the 4th October 2011. The agenda from that session is up on the BAPP Libguides under Module Campus Sessions (added 8/10/11).