This blog is created to support conversation generated from and about the learning process for MA Professional Practice (MAPP) in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries (ACI) at Middlesex University.

Thursday 27 October 2016

First Sunday Group chat - November 6th

November 6th is the first Sunday group chat.  Helen will be initiating it (in other words look out for a call from her skype address on that Sunday). We have a morning and afternoon one:
11am (time in London)
or
5pm (time in London)

Please comment below to let us know which one you will join. Remember to also write a tiny bit about what you want to talk about, what you are thinking or what question you are exploring etc... so that we all have sometime to think about each others conversation starter before the call. looking forward to hearing from you

Adesola

18 comments:

  1. Anyone I'm not already connected with on Skype please do send a contact request before the 6th, so I can be sure to add you to the call!

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  2. Hello Helen! Good morning. I will be joining you at 11am on 6th November. I am working on reflective essay and experiential learning would like to discuss about the same. Thanks.

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  3. Hi Helen, I would also like to join the 11am group please. I would like to chat about experiential learning. Since I've started this modul I seem to be second guessing nearly everything I do. I would love to hear the groups' views. Samantha

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  4. Helen,

    I would like to join the 12noon group and would like to hear views on experiential learning much like Samantha Pickering. Like the US does the UK experience daylights savings time falling back one hour on 6 November? I want to be sure I do not miss the Skype call.

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  5. Sorry! I meant 5pm group which is noon in the DC area.

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  6. Dear Helen, I prefer to chat at 11am on Sunday. I am writing the AOL and I would like to talk about the experiental learning.

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  7. Please remember that the group chats are about speaking to each other. You are directing the conversations you would like to have with each other not to me or Helen. We are trying to move away from you having a sense of being given permission to think.
    I am trying to encourage comments to my blog post and here we have some and they are exclusively address to someone else. More for my data on invisibility !!!
    Adesola

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  8. Hi Helen, please can you add me to the 11am chat but be aware that I may only be able to listen and not communicate! I am attending a dance festival that day and have children competing so not even sure if I will have enough internet connection.....but will try! Thanks. Michelle

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  9. Hello Group,
    I will be joining the 5pm group chat. I am currently working on data collection. I am thinking of the qualitative nature of my data. So much of my data feels like personal reflection, as I take notes and conduct interviews. There are some interesting themes emerging, including the idea of instructors belonging to a lineage of values / ideas / attitudes toward teaching. Also, a strong link between instructor approach to life (being human) and how this is reflected in their approach to teaching. I am in Module 3 and am studying five different instructors and how they motivate pre and professional contemporary dancers.
    Looking forward to the discussion.

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    1. Alanna!! I don't have you as a contact on Skype, if you can please contact me now so that I can add you to the call shortly... helen.kindred2

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  10. For time zone conversion:
    I use this conversion tool to be sure of when Skype is happening in my time zone (esp. around daylight savings):

    http://www.timeanddate.com

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  11. Hi all. I would like to join the 11am group and wanting to make contact about AOL's and experiential learning. Catch you then!
    Becky

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  12. Hi all i would like to join the 5pm chat. I am on module 3 looking at dancers inner voices and the impact their internal conversations have on their movement. I have to be honest in that i do not have a question yet and keep putting off sending this in because of that but i would like to be part of the conversation and hopefully before Sunday will be able to clear a pathway to a line of thought that i would like to discuss.

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  13. Hi! I would like to join the 11 am Skype group please. I would like to talk about writing about your AOLs and the risk of criticising/ judging/ evaluating yourself and others. Maïté

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  14. Hi. I'd like to be part of the 5pm group discussion. I'm looking at the fact we all learn in different ways and at different times. The government is very much calling subjects hard and soft and looking at getting rid of soft subjects from the school curriculum. How do you feel about this? Thanks.

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  15. Hi! I would like to join the 5pm chat today please. I am beginning to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information I am dealing with (data from interviews/ workshops I'm giving but also my own observations and reflections from day to day work, from literature and other artefacts). I am wondering how other people are handling this especially how they go about drawing links between different information sources and keeping track of important ideas. I think this would apply across modules. Looking forward to it! sam

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  16. Hi Samantha and all, you have summed up where I am. I am feeling in a haze of information, its all moving so fast and there is so much of it. I have to admit that I am struggling with keeping track of everything, knowing that there is still so much more....... I look forward to speaking l
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