Sunday Discussion group September 27th

Sunday is our first Discussion group we will be looking at the ideas of 'knowledge', 'learning' and 'information'. We are asked to be prepared to talk about this together. Use the module handbook and links along with your own research into these ideas to start to explore the topic ready for Sunday. Discussion groups are informal but important because these discussion group Skypes are a time to talk across the MAPP learning community and practice speaking to others about your work. Please write below to indicate which group time you will attend and what you would like to share/talk about. 

Sunday 27th September 8pm (time in London) 

*Please note if you have any specific questions about the course that you need to discuss with your Supervisor you can email them or Skype call your Supervisor (quick questions can just be called in via Skype there is no need for an appointment - we ask you to try to call during your Supervisor's Office Hours if possible - see UniHub for times).

Networks of observation, Networks of information

We have looked at social media and Web 2.0 as part of the professional networks around us (we look at this particularly in Module One). Over the last ten years, since BAPP (which the MAPP courses grow out of) started in the form it is today, social media(s) and Web 2.0 has changed and developed and created cultures of their own. Back then Alan Durrant and I re-shaped the BAPP course to include blogging and social media platforms following ideas of Connectivism*.  Connectivism is still at the heart of the courses however the implications of the internet are not static and requires continued critical thinking about what knowledge and information manifests as ( and what they do!). I just watched the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma (Director Jeff Orlowski, 2020). It raises interesting questions about the networks we develop around us. Interesting ethical considerations about what knowledge, information and learning manifest as in the 21st Century.

*Connectivism is a theoretical framework for understanding learning in a digital age. It emphasises how internet technologies such as web browsers, search engines, wikis, online discussion forums, and social networks contributed to new avenues of learning. Technologies have enabled people to learn and share information across the World Wide Web and among themselves in ways that were not possible before the digital age- see the recommended book on our reading lists - Knowing Knowledge by George Siemens

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/ 

What are your thoughts?  - please comment below.

Wednesday 23rd September Seeing your Practice and self: Module One focus

Wednesday Sept. 23^rd h 2020

Online session with DAN4510  Module One focus Seeing your Practice and self.

4pm (time in London)

Discussion groups with Module focus are informal but important because these discussion group Skypes are a time to talk across the MAPP learning community and practice speaking to others about your work. Please write below to indicate which group time you will attend and what you would like to share/talk about. 

*Please note if you have any specific questions about the course that you need to discuss with your Supervisor you can email them or Skype call your Supervisor (quick questions can just be called in via Skype there is no need for an appointment - we ask you to try to call during your Supervisor's Office Hours if possible - see UniHub for times).

Welcome/Welcome back Skypes

The new term is starting!
We have welcome / welcome back Skype sessions on

Friday September 11th at 5pm (time in London)
or
Saturday September 12th at 2pm (time in London)

Comment below to let us know which you will be attending. 

Helpful information

Applications opened today for The Theatre Artists Fund which has been set up to provide emergency support for theatre workers and freelancers across the UK. For information and to apply please follow the link below.

https://theatreartists.fund/who-is-the-theatre-artists-fund-for/

Important summer Reading - we see you.

This is a recent open letter from people working in Theatre in USA - We See You.

The signatories include the Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda; the film and television stars Viola Davis and Blair Underwood; and many Tony Award winners, including the actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson and the playwright David Henry Hwang, who is the chair of the American Theater Wing and choreographers such as Dianne McIntyre.  

The statement, outlining a series of ways in which, it argues, artists of color are unjustly treated in the theater world, declares itself to be “in the legacy of August Wilson’s ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’,” an important 1996 speech by the playwright about race and the American theater. Headlined “We See You, White American Theater,” the statement repeatedly uses the phrase “we see you” to punctuate its observations about the theater world, and adds, “We have always seen you. And now you will see us".

http://bway.ly/i23u2a#https://www.weseeyouwat.com/

Well Done - Summer

Well done, Module Three's on your presentations last week.

Well done, everyone on a creative, reflective term.

We are now in a marking period with grading and boards. You will receive feedback on your submitted work over the summer.

We start back on September 14th, with 'Welcome Back Skypes' 11th and 12th September.

There will be sign-up blogs for 'Welcome Back Skypes' posted at the end of August on Adesola Blog (here!!). Unihub will be up-dated with new term in formation in August also. Keep an eye on the blogs from time to time. Keep an eye on your Middlesex Student emails for any admin. correspondence.

Have a good recuperative summer.