Comment - community of learners

Hey MAPP-ers keep commenting on each others blogs.
Have a look at Maria's http://mariaranden.blogspot.no
She is looking for feedback on her AOL's

Lets talk/comment to each other people!!!!!!
Adesola

October 5th PM chat

PM skype chat: Sunday afternoon (5:30 in London) we had our PM skype chat. We were a conversation of eight. We talked about a few points that people brought to the meeting to discuss.

We talked about:

What role the reflective journals play in the modules and the place for reflection in your study in general. For more on the conversation visit Tamzin http://tamzinhoward.blogspot.co.uk  , Suzanne www.zsurcy.wordpress.com  ,and Amanda http://amandatooms-peel.blogspot.co.uk  who are writing posts on Reflection.

What questions are. How we deal with them developing in Module three and across the modules how questions do not have to be linked to answers but are more about learning more and stimulating thinking. Rose http://rosepaye3012.blogspot.co.uk   & Mary http://www.marymapp.blogspot.co.uk

We talked about all the communication tools from practical questions about joining the Linked –in group to apprehensions in posting blogs to looking at the differences and strengths of all the communication tools used on the course. Anthony (hold tight we will put his address in the comments below)  will be writing about this in his post.

Also we talked about a reflective journal app Penzu.

And pointed out if you are having problems with Unihub or need tech support with MDX on-line access etc… to contact Aimee Tallon a.tallon@mdx.ac.uk

Great conversations today lets keep thinking and talking.

I ended the day with a phrase about the courage to jump in and enter a conversation or try to write something or just generally allow yourself to be at the edges of what you feel you ‘know’ – to research.

We have to have the humility to love our imperfect selves.

October 5th morning SKYPE session: sharing our conversation

This mornings SKYPE session was good. We had five people talking together. We talked about:

AOL (Module 1) – how to start to define what they should be about: April who was in the conversation is going to post about this in terms of how the AOLs reflecting the whole you, your whole practice http://aprilannbrown.wordpress.com

 

Marie-Renie is going to write about this in terms of an example AOL she is working through now http://marie-reinebouchereau.blogspot.co.uk

Artefact (Module 3) – what is an artefact, how are they crafted? Jamie is going to write about this on his blog http://jamiewarburton.blogspot.co.uk

Maria is going to post about the experience of joining in with the SKYPE session in general http://mariaranden.blogspot.no

We also talked getting help with MDX web-page issues such as down loading e-books – for help with this you could contact Adam Edwards a.edwards@mdx.ac.uk

Office hours and Week One

We are Week One, our first week. Now is a time to be sorting out and getting started. As we talked about in induction here are some points that are important as you start:

1)   Work out when you have to have your assessed work hand-in by (January 2015) and make sure you understand what it is. In other words where are you heading on the journey of this module?

2)   Make a space for your work – in your diary through organised times for when you will working, in your house/office/coffee-shop through having a place to ‘shut the door’ and start working, in your life embracing the notion you are a student (again!!).

3)   Start to open lines of communication with the MAPP learning community, this is through starting your blog and giving us the address, visiting other people’s blogs and leaving comments, getting skype sorted out, contacting your advisor if you have any questions etc…

I am going to have virtual ‘office hours’. These are times when you can skype in to talk to me without an appointment. These will be Tuesday and Thursdays 10am to 11am and Saturdays 8pm to 10pm.

So for comment to this post please let us know what tips you have for starting back/starting-up. What has worked for you?

Adesola

SKYPE Sunday Sept 5th 11am and 5:30pm (London time)

Don’t forget this Sunday (September 5^th) we have two group skype sessions. One at 11am (in London) and please note the afternoon session will be at 5:30pm (in London) NOT 7pm (in London). Please let me know which session you are joining in with, the best way to do this is to make a comment on this post telling me!!

Looking forward to talking to you Sunday.

Adesola

After our first group SKYPE meeting this term!!

We had a first group SKYPE for this term today. It was great to hear everyone introduce themselves and catch up on what returning students are up to. You might notice are numbers are swelling we had 14 people (I think) in that conversation! We talked about a number of things and got to share and ask each other questions. Some people are going to write specific blog posts about topics raised.

Helen is going to post about student info/benefits etc… How to get your student card and what it can be used for.

Jamie is going to write about the MAPP community, Mary about the global network we form;

Sarah about useful books as you start module one.

I am writing about the next SKYPE meetings:

Because there are so many of is now and we are across the globe we are going to have two times for skype meetings. So you can attend either an earlier or later one in the day, which also helps people in time zones outside of UK. So our monthly group SKYPE meetings are:

October 5^th 11am (London time) and also 7pm (London time)

November 2^nd 11am (London time) and also 7pm (London time)

December 7^th 11am (London time) and also 7pm (London time)

I will write a post near to the date reminding everyone about the meeting. If you plan to attend you could write in the comments of that post, so I know to look out for you and when (11am or 7pm). If you miss the post you could also email. Lastly if it gets to the time of the session and you were expecting a call but don’t get one then write me a message over SKYPE and I can add you to the call. So in other words be proactive in making sure your are a part of the group call.

Come to the meetings with a question, idea or experience to share. We will keep each session to an hour so it is a good idea to prepare by having a note about anything you want to discuss or share. That way we can make a kind of agenda at the beginning of the meeting and make sure everyone gets to cover what they hope to talk about.

Of course it is ok to just listen to the conversation; just connect with peers and hear how people are doing. I really believe that community, collaboration and cooperation are a part of how we can shape the 21st century.

Try to find a quiet room to meet: any back ground noise from any of us makes the reception funny, and makes people hard to hear.

Just some up-front planning, As always it was a great chat today, very inspiring and left me excited about getting started this term.

Adesola

Quiz experiment

We are thinking about making a fun quiz or two!! This is a test. Let me know if you can use it.