Module Three Skype session on Monday October 12th at 6pm

I (Adesola) will be initiating the call so I need to be connected to you in skype before hand. Please send a request that states you are in BAPP and your name (not just your skype name). If I just get the standard one I might not be able to recognize who you are and I will not accept it.

We will be talking about how you have started in terms of the inquiry and how you transitioned from the feedback you got from Module Two to getting going on Module Three.

We will also be talking about consent forms and planning now you are actively out their inquiring!!!

Lastly we will talk about how you are capturing the/your process in Module Three.

Please come to the session with some ideas and things to contribute. 

Please comment below if you are going to attend the session.

Look forward to talking to you.

Adesola

PM skype chat reflections

The pm skype on Tuesday was also a great chat (I think I always say that but the chats are always really interesting and useful so…) We talked about how part of getting started is about finding your own voice. A lot of module one is about finding YOU in your practice, YOU in your study. Finding your voice is highlighted in the blog posts because you have to think about how you want to communicate. We talked about the issue of not being sure of the style of writing you should use for blog posts. We came to the conclusion that you can use different styles according to how you feel, what the subject of the post is, what kind of writing you want to practice or what response or feedback you want. As you try different styles you are also practicing different aspects of your own voice.

We talked about how the tasks across the course are part of the action of observing – observing yourself, observing what other people have said and done within a subject, observing activity within your practice. We talked about observing in general (in terms of observations for an inquiry). This lead us to talk about the importance of both being open to seeing something new and also be prepared enough to know a little about what you are observing so you can look for meaning and have direction to the observation.

We also talked about ethics looking at the ethical implications of situations where a person was teaching an art practice but is not a qualified teacher. We saw ethical issues both for the person and the institution where the person was teaching. Ethics teaches us there is no right answer there is just care and awareness to what you are doing. For instance there is no right answer here there are problems which ever way you look at it.

In one way there are problems when an artist has a lot of experience in their field and is very accomplished but because they do not have a teaching certificate they are not paid the same as someone who does not know about the practice to the same depth.

In another way there is a problem that someone who has no teacher  training is working with children  - both issues with the well being of the children and also because a qualified teacher would have  had training in a variety of methods and ideas.

The bigger problem seems to be respect for practice. In both case there is an assumption that a practice (the art practice or the teaching practice) is something people can just take on. In the conversation we all had experienced something similar to this problem in our careers.

The conversation was over an hour and so everyone is posting on a part of the conversation they want to share or take away to think about. Have a look at peoples post and comment… Lets keep the conversations going.

Tina www.lynnterry001.blogspot.com is posting about talking to people from different modules and how useful this is – how the modules support each other – seeing the course as a whole.

Andrea www.andreamorrison82.blogspot.co.uk  is going to post on tasks and the usefulness of keeping coming back to them even when you have finished a module. She also has some Module Two question ideas for people to feedback on.

Stephanie  www.stephanieswann02.blogspot.co.uk  is posting on seeing the CV as a self-evaluation tool and the importance of ‘looking back’ and ‘looking forward’ as you are thinking.

Ami  www.amikaraevans.blogspot.com  is going to post about understanding the course as a whole and her ‘ahhh moment’ in this…

Darren www.darrentaggart.blogspot.co.uk is going to post on the importance of thinking about why you are doing something as well as what you are doing. Looking for meaning in the tasks and direction of the course; not just doing things like steps without thinking about where the steps are taking you.

Nafisah www.nafisahbaba.blogspot.com is posting about how it is good to communicate across the learning community – you are not alone.

Lisa http://lisameiklejohn.blogspot.co.uk  is going to post the conversation and reflections.

OK what do you all feel?

Please comment …

Adesola

Chats from the am First Tuesday skype chat - You, I, We

Our First Tuesday Skype chats went really well this month.

In our AM meeting we talked about blogging and web 2.0 in general. We talked about how web 2.0 is prevalent across our lives. It is out there but we don’t usually think so much about   how our interactions with the web builds a sense of who we are. We thought about ‘what do I look like through web 2.0’. Who am I professionally through the eyes of people who know me through the web. Then we thought about how this reflection back of ourselves can help us further reflect on who we want to be: what we value, what we want to develop, where we want to go in our practice. Module One is all about this self-reflection to better understand Self (YOU), which gives you a grounding for the next two modules where you are asked to journey down where you want to go with your practice through your inquiry project.

Kayleigh www.kayleighbapp.blogspot.com  is going to post further on ‘what do I look like in Web 2.0’ how does that apply to my idea of my professional self.   

We talked about how useful it is to talk to people about your ideas. When you explain your thoughts and ideas to someone else it often helps you clarify for yourself what you mean. This linked to the blogging because your blog post are a great way to feedback and get feedback from others.

Sophie www. www.sophiedonald.blogspot.co.uk  is going to post further on this.

We also talked about the notion of questions particularly in terms of Module Two (but of course the process of learning across the course in itself is made of questions). We talked about how we need to check-in with ourselves about the questions we ask. Are they questions we already know about – in which case they are really more a affirming you are ‘right’ about something. Or are you genuinely interested in finding out more? If you want to know more about something you will not be looking for a ‘finished’ answer to your questions you will be interested in knowing more about the question itself. It is these kind of questions that lead to more informed questions that are most useful in this course.  So if you are in Module Two and you have a general area you are interested in, at this point, that is enough. Doing the course this term – looking at the questions from the perspective of ethics, literature etc… will help you know more about your question and help you come to a place where you have a question that you authentically want to know more about. Not a question where you can already predict what you will find or where you are trying to prove something you already know.

Catherine www.catherinehayward.blogspot.ae  is going to post on ‘asking a question we don’t know about!!’

Paula http://paulanottingham.blogspot.com  is going to post about listening and the importance of allowing moment of quiet or thinking time.

Don’t be afraid of those moments when you are in process. Don’t expect yourself to ‘know’ all the time but trust yourself to move through the unknown to the known. This will happen just because you are thinking, communicating, caring and doing. That is more than enough. The community of learners of BAPP is the current energy that helps you flow through the learning journey. Try to see the whole course, whole module in the small bit-size chunks you do each week.

What do you think?

Adesola