Group SKYPE chat this Sunday - let me know if you are joining in !!

Our group skype is this Sunday.

If you are not in UK remember our clocks changed last week!!!

We will be skyping at 11am (in London) and at 5:30pm (in London). If you are planning to join in please leave a comment on this post saying which time you will be joining in with. Looking forward to hearing how its going, what things you have discovered and experiences you are having.

Adesola

FYI

It would be great to see people there!

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