First Sunday Discussion Group and Student Rep info.

December 3rd we will have our First Sunday Discussion Groups
11am (time in London)
and
5pm (time in London)

Please comment below to indicate which one you will attend and suggest topics for discussion.

Also please note J Davis Hobdy is your MAPP student representative. We are looking for a second representative - keep him company! This would be starting from December 2017 so if you are a Module One or Module Two student please let us know if you would like to do this. It involves being available and asking students for their thoughts about the course, how we can support the course. There is a skype Student Voice meeting you would be asked to attend in February each year. This is part of our move to being wholly in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries from being partly in Work Based Learning.

Speak to you all soon.

Dates and Days - Comment on a blog day !!

Dates to remember
Next group Skype discussion - December 3rd 2017 
(look out for sign-up post on my blog to sign-up).

Symposium  February 24th 2018 (look out for info.  in the coming weeks)

Fun thing to do ... Comment on a blog - visit someone you have not visited before day!!
Here are some - add your below in comments too.

CURRENT MAPP COMMUNITY BLOGS:

Katherine Bates

https://katherine-lucy.blogspot.co.uk

Garry Clarke

http://garrywclarke.blogspot.co.uk

Hannah Jackson

http://hannahlindsaymapp.blogspot.co.uk

Rebecca Kirten

https://rebeccas-k.blogspot.co.uk

Jane Syder

http://jvsyd.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/module-1-handbook.html

Emma Beach

https://emmabeach.blogspot.co.uk

Agata Lawniczak

http://krabumbel.blogspot.co.uk

George Kirkham

http://creativeacademydance.blogspot.co.uk

Laura Dudman

http://caterpillarlaura.blogspot.co.uk

Parimala Hansoge

https://parimalamapp.blogspot.co.uk

Emma Millward

http://emmy-lu.blogspot.co.uk

Brandon Sears

http://brandonleesears.blogspot.co.uk

Raymond Chai

http://raymond-chai.blogspot.co.uk

Becky Jones

http://rebeccajones87.blogspot.co.uk

Maïté Margues

http://maitemappdtp.blogspot.co.uk

Alice Forde

http://elysiandance.blogspot.co.uk

Davis J Hobdy

https://kensdancer.blogspot.co.uk

Sam Pickering

https://dixieogivar.blogspot.co.uk

Lizzie Rowden

http://rowdene.blogspot.co.uk

Michelle Rasdall

http://chelleymapp.blogspot.co.uk

Kirsty Searle

http://kirstysearle.blogspot.co.uk

Jo Roots

http://jorootsmapp.blogspot.co.uk

Parimala Hansoge

https://parimalamapp.blogspot.co.uk

Barbara Olyus

https://barbarabesque.blogspot.co.uk

George Kirkham

http://creativeacademydance.blogspot.co.uk

One Dance UK Conferences in London

-        Featuring exciting new research on developments in dance education, #OneDanceUK’s Dance Teaching and Participation Conference is an unmissable day of seminars, workshops, discussions and more for all in dance education. Don’t miss out: http://bit.ly/DTPConf #ODUKConfSeason

-        Do you teach GCSE Dance? Don’t miss the chance to explore @jamescousinscompany’s ‘Within Her Eyes’, part of the GCSE Dance Anthology, with James himself at #OneDanceUK’s Dance Teaching and Participation Conference. Book now: http://bit.ly/DTPConf #ODUKConfSeason

Noticing

Here are some thoughts from talking to people and looking at drafts

1)    Read the handbook more than once.

2)    Module One is about seeing, noticing and articulating your practice. At the end of Module One you are asked to write reflectively about your practice. In order to do that you need to have been able to ‘see’ step outside yourself to critically look at it: to consider and wonder at and notice how you practice manifest at this time. The AOLs as a task help you to also see the history and legacy of your practice as it is today.

3)    Module Two once you have some idea of data collection methods you must plan what you will do with the data. How you will analyse it. You have to do more than just compile the answers people gave you when you asked them a question. When you start to think about what you will do in terms of analysis this frees you up to think of more practice-based data collection methods – it becomes more exciting more relevant to your practice. More than just asking people the answer to a question you are asking. The people or books will not have the answer. YOU ARE NOT LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER. (You are looking to find out more about something). You are looking for themes significant ideas, patterns in the data/ activity of the data collection. Then in Module Three you can think about what this Themes, significant ideas and patterns mean to you and your practice (which you started to identify in Module One)

4)    The professional artefact is something that fits as a way of sharing in the culture of your practice. Just as the written essay is a University artefact. Something you would expect to come across in the University setting. The way you explain your inquiry through the professional artefact is something not out of place in your professional setting. If you don’t yet know what you want to say then you will also not know how to say it. The artefact is how you say it. You cannot decide how to say something before you know what it is you want to say. If you don’t know what you want to say it will be because you need to do more analysis to help yourself understand what happened doing your inquiry and what it means to you.

5)    Put page numbers on things. Name the document you send with regard to where it is going. Your computer might have only on ‘first AOL’ but the Advisor receiving it is getting 7 or 8 “first AOLs’. Name it your name and what it is!! Have a title, use the header or footer to make sure your name is on the document. Don’t forget normal detail in the stress of writing something ‘academic’!