For all modules there are different things you
are asked to give us for assessment. BUT in each module what you hand-in is
linked it is not a load of independent documents. In Module One you are making
a portfolio telling one thing. In Module Two you are telling one thing: about a
plan that is linked to your practice and will complete your BA. In Module Three
you are telling us about one thing; a Research project. But because life is
multi-layered you maybe handing different aspects or parts of the one idea but
they are all linked in telling the same story of each module.
All the work we are doing on linking
experiences, networks, reflection why would we then ask you to chop things up
and not relate things to each other. In some cases – like Module Three you are
asked for a document and then there is a brake down of each section but they
are part of the same thing!!
The sections are like the way a book has
chapters each chapter has a particular part of the story but they relate to
each other to make a whole picture. The sections are like chapters of a book
each section has its part but they are put to together to make the who report.
For everyone please remember that the assessment
work is not a load of hoops we want you to jump through to get the prize of
passing. We want to understand what you have been doing, we want you to be able
to articulate it in away that anyone teaching at BA level will understand and
also at a level where you can tell other people about your work in your
professional world. Why would we want to read the same thing repeated again and
again in different short documents that don’t relate to each other? I guess I
would hope that you could see we are not trying to give you tasks like hero’s
in a fairytale that get more and more difficult to see if you deserve a BA. All
the work we do about web 2:0 in Module One shows that of course you can find
the ‘knowledge’, ‘information’ but what is its value/ meaning. What makes it
important is the unique view/ ideas/ experiences you have had and how you give
it meaning. That is most important and then it is important that your special
voice on the topics can be heard and there are standard ways for people to hear
you; the guide-lines for how the work is to be submitted is just so you have
experience in presenting your voice in away that will be heard in the
establishment of a university setting because a BA is a university artefact.
Please try to make sense of what you are doing.
At the beginning of each module we ask you to take a leap of faith into the
ideas and activities but by the end do not be doing things because you think
you have been told to, have a reason for doing them for yourself also. If you
need to grab hold of that meaning and its slips away talk to your advisor that
is what they are there for. There is no secret society holding the knowledge:
we want you to do your best, do well this world needs all the brilliant,
fulfilled people it can get.
Most people are doing this but just a reminder:
Put your name on your work – simply so we know
who its from
Put page numbers on it – simply so we know the
order of things
Put things together – so that you link your
learning particularly to you and your practice.
Use words you know the meaning of
Check the meaning is what you think it is, not
just how it is used in Metro or the Sun
Don’t rely on one word to give meaning to a
whole sentence – write to illuminate ideas.
Feel you are a part of something: your
interesting voice within the context of hundreds of others in books and
journals too.
Respect yourself and what you think by presenting it clearly and
respect yourself by respecting the work others have done. If you thought it
then probably someone else has too. Find your published soul-mates: what they brought to the ideas you are interested in too. Don’t
reinvent the wheel find out about the wheel.
OK then
!!!!
Adesola
