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, 25 October 2012

Getting down and dirty!!


I just finished a rant blog on community for my BAPP blog (have a look and see what you think!!) and now while I’m in a telling-people-what-to-do-and-what-not-to-do kinda mood …

This blog post is about checking you are getting on with it.

Firstly I must say that as an advisor on the course I try to keep my eye on the ball of you getting the most out of the study and I try to filter out admin and anything else that might stop you but you need to keep a breast of it I understand. That being said make sure you are clear that in January RoL students (which the all the module Ones are this year) have to give in about 7 – 10 essays each claiming credits in different areas of your life and Module twos have to have a whole research plan worked out along with reflective reason for why it is constructed the way it is. So make a bucket list of the steps you have to take to do this and start doing it! Don’t wait for admin to work out to start doing X. Don’t get caught-up with setting up your blog set one up already and move on… don’t ponder too long on blog posts or paw over your CV  or try to work out what is best: doing it will tell you. You might ‘go wrong’ but you can’t know until you do it. And we are interested in your learning so if you ‘go wrong’ and can explain why and what you think, what you learnt you will probably have a stronger final paper than if you were perfect all term.
Module Ones: List so RoL and send them out – to your advisor and to your blog get feedback.
Comment on someone else’s RoL and give them feedback.

Module Twos: dive into a question and explore where it goes as you look into the literature on it, the ethics around it and the issues it resonates with on a day-to-day basis.

Courage
What do you think?
Adesola

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