Wednesday 30th September - Research terms, what are you doing?: Module Three focus

Wednesday Sept 30^th 2020

Online session with DAN4760 Module Three focus ,Research terms – what are you doing!? 

8pm (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).

Writing workshop with Peter Thomas - Monday 28th September

Monday Sept 28^th 2020

Online session talking about academic writing practice with Peter Thomas (guest speaker). Peter is a Senior Lecturer in Academic Writing and Language with the Learning Enhancement Team coordinator for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, Middlesex University.

9am (time in London)

or 

5pm (time in London)

Please write below to indicate which workshop time you will attend and what you would like to share/talk about. 

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/