New BAPP Skypes and up-date on schedules

Hi everyone,
Given the current situation we have added some new Skype (and Zoom sessions). Zoom log-in information is on UniHub on the pdf about the new sessions at the top of the page. For Zoom you just have to come to the meet as directed.

Sunday 8pm Skypes are organized through Student Voice leaders - see Student Voice folder on UniHub.

I will also add posts for the Skype sessions so you can sign-up as we usually do (for non-Zoom and Student Voice Sundays)


Here is the overview

BAPP additional Skype sessions

Schedule (all times are given as UK-GMT)

Wednesday April 1^st - 8:15am & 9pm discussion group 

Thursday April 2^nd – 7:15pm - community discussion group 

*Friday April 3^rd – 8.00pm - guided relaxation session

*Sunday April 5^th – 8pm Student voice group (every Sunday at 8pm) 

*Friday April 10^th  – 8.00pm - guided meditation session

Thursday April 9^th – 7:15pm - community discussion group

*Friday April 17^th – 8.00pm - guided meditation session

Monday  April 20th - 6pm Module Three focus

*Friday April 24^th – 8.00pm - guided meditation session

Sat April 25^th – 9;15am - community discussion group (Breakfast club)

*Friday May 1^st – 8.00pm – guided meditation session

Friday May 1^st – submission of work for all modules via turnitin

*Friday May 8^th – 8.00pm – guided meditation session 

Wednesday May 6^th – Presentation 9am -2pm, Presenters: Mark Allison, Cathleen Limerick, Siobhan Richardson, Benny Tyas. (presenters need to be available in afternoon too) 

Thursday May 7^th – Presentation 11:30am – 4:30pm, Presenters: Emi Ichikawa, Thomas Holdsworth, Louise Elliott, Taylor Byrnes. 

*Friday May 15^th – 8.00pm – guided mediation session 

*Friday May 22^nd – 8.00pm – guided meditation session

*Friday May 29^th – 8.00pm – guided meditation session

*Friday June 5^th  – 8.00pm – guided meditation session

(these sessions will carry on through the summer according to numbers) 

*Friday - session are via Zoom 

Friday April 3rd- Online session with a module 2 focus

Practicalities of doing practice-based research

Online session- Module 2 focus (ACI 3622)

Friday the 3rd of April, 6pm- (Time in London)

Comment below to indicate if you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion. 

Arts Council England up-date

This is a link to the latest guidance from Arts Council England.

https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/covid-19/covid-19-government-and-non-governmental-support?_cldee=YWRlc29sYUBkYW5jaW5nc3Ryb25nLmNvbQ%3d%3d&recipientid=contact-25a1ad9199ade61184b7005056915655-b6329c8544744c058ff049411018650f&esid=a91c2441-5870-ea11-bc4a-005056911737

Module One and Module Three skypes this week

We had a couple of Skypes this week. In Module One focus we talked about literature. Thinking about why you are doing things - why am I reading this. This idea of questions came across in a lot of the conversation. Questions help unpack the experience such s 'how does this relate to me personally to my practice?' How is this unique to me? Am I visual person - how can I describe this visually, sonically, physically?

The Module Three focus conversations included recognizing 'the process'. Noticing your process, Noticing the 'messiness' of understanding something as it links to ideas you already had and maybe changes them or shifts their meaning. We discussed the importance of having an open mind, enjoying not knowing but also witnessing your own process.

Those attending said they would be posting their thoughts please look in the comments - what do you think please comment. What have you been reflecting on this week.

Wednesday April 1st- Discussion group- all BAPP modules

Discussion Group (BAPP all modules)
Wednesday the 1st of April-
8:15am 
or
 9pm 
(Time in London)

Comment below to indicate which discussion group you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Tuesday March 24th- Online session with a Module 3 focus.

The central place of analysis, synthesis of information through reflection.

Online session- Modle 3 focus (ACI3633)

Tuesday the 24th of March-
8pm (Time in London)

Comment below to indicate if you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Monday March 23rd- Online session with a Module 1 focus.

Synthesis of information through reflection

Online session- Module 1 focus (ACI3611)

Monday the 23rd of March- 6pm (Time in London)

Comment below to indicate if you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Community Skype - Saturday April 25th

Community Skypes are general conversations between students - sharing ideas, what happening, new and checking-in with each other.

Please comment below to join: 

Join the MAPP Module Two Skype on MORE tonight Monday 16th

Some people asked this weekend about another Module Two Skype. - We are have a MORE focus Skype with MAPP students tonight at 8pm. If you are on Module Two and would like to joint this please comment below. Remember comment are moderated on this blog so you will not see your comment appear straight away.

Adesola
:) 

Community Skypes

We are adding some 'community Skypes' as a response to the current news and changes and the isolation that they move towards. These are Skypes we can orchestrate through my (Adesola's) blog but they are for you to talk to each other informally, share ideas about the course but also larger approaches or challenges to your practice.

They are to keep in touch and support each other as the BAPP (and MAPP) community.
The first on will be
Thursday 19th March 7pm (time in London) 
Comment below if you will join. 

About first person and the notion of bias and the 'truth'...

You may have noticed I try not to use words like 'bias' and 'truth' because their meaning is so different in qualitative research (which we are doing - where they could have no meaning) from quanititive research (where they have a a lot of meaning). I put these videos together to talk around the idea of how we are present in our own experiences and in our own research. The practice as research approach I take means that it is not about trying to be neutral or un-bias. Instead it is about being reflective, reflexive and questioning...together these videos demonstrate this...

We ask you to writing in First person because you are the filter through which you are experiencing life and making meaning. This is seeing a constructed world in which you are the builder. We need to know who is doing the building – you need to present. This raises questions about what is truth – is it more ‘true if I writing the building was the best thing every built’ or if I write ‘I felt the building was the best construction I had walked into.’ Is the building better because you are out of the sentence? 

We have to ask where we stand on truth, learning, facts – objective truth. Here is montage of videos and questions that together an assemblage for addressing the ethics of where ‘I’ am in what I write…  

Lying is a corporative act so is truth... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6vDLq64gE&t=197s

Truth – learn from history for the better of the world – there is objective truth...

https://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_lipstadt_behind_the_lies_of_holocaust_denial/up-next?language=en#t-24829

https://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_lipstadt_behind_the_lies_of_holocaust_denial/up-next?language=en#t-24829

and so for me kindness is key 

But what about being kind has the danger of being gullible... (swearing below!!)

  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo

....truth... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Uc-cztsJo&t=115s

(digital) literacy becomes important...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dceyy0cX6J4

‘…gave us access to everything but it also gave everything to us… discriminate between the things that genuinely matter and the' rhetoric 'of life…’ 

Where you are in all this determines what it means... so you need to be present in it when you write about it. That is why we ask you write in first person. 

What do you think?...

Friday March 20th- Online session with a Module 2 focus

What if you don't interview anyone? The central place of analysis

Online Session with a Module 2 focus (AC13622)

Friday the 20th of March- 6pm (Time in London) 

Comment below to indicate if you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Campus Session

We looked at Mapping - mapping practice, mapping for inquiry -
We asked each other questions about the maps we had of our practice and inquiry.
This led to thinking about:

Anushka - The exploration of different cultures/ environments within my training and how these have influenced how I conduct myself while training and performing. This has added discussion point for my ethical considerations to link into my areas of learning.

Bronte - Today we looked how previous experiences have changed the way we approach our practice and looked into the grey areas on our maps - Broaden your minds!

Tom - I found it very helpful to understand that we are casting a large net in order to come up with our point of inquiry. I was maybe trying to be too specific immediately, rather than allowing the research and mapping work to inform the choices that I made to take to inquiry.

What are your thoughts on mapping
Comment below...

Dance and Society - gender

Thinking about how dance impacts on social structures and how social structure impact on dance...
https://www.ted.com/talks/trevor_copp_and_jeff_fox_ballroom_dance_that_breaks_gender_roles 

plea pleIn the 

Wednesday March 4th- BAPP Campus Session

BAPP campus session
Wednesday the 4th of March-

1pm - 3pm 

Meet at the Information booth in College Building

Comment below to indicate that you are coming. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Wednesday Feb. 26th - BAPP discussion group

BAPP discussion group (all modules)

Wednesday the 26th of Feb. -
8:15am 
or 
9pm CANCELLED 
(Times in London)

We will try to reschedule this 9pm chat for next week. Look out for posts...

Comment below if you are interested in coming and indicate which session you will be joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion. 

Thinking about ethical considerations

Ethical consideration are about the questions you ask to change what assumptions are being made. The questions themselves and reflection they create are the action of ethical considerations. Any answers are not part of the process - The thinking about the question is the process.

Examples:

Emma's example taken from TedTalks was based on the subject matter of "Does machine Intelligence make human morals more important".
Some ethical considerations that arose from this were;
- Why is the data I input online having an impact on my morals?
- Will the information I search for be tailored and restricted to show desired results?
- Should the internet be making decisions for us?
- Why are we relying on machine intelligence to improve our morals?
https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_machine_intelligence_makes_human_morals_more_important/transcript?referrer=playlist-talks_on_artificial_intelligen


Lauren Mitchell:
The example TedTalk that I used, asked the question: Does photographing the moment steal the experience from you?
As a question which has often come up in conversation in my everyday life, I believe that it does not, if the photo is used for personal reference and memory. My aunt would dispute this as a typical younger person living their life through a mobile phone. My sister offers a different opinion since she usually takes photos of places to post on social media.
These three opinions raise questions about ethical assumptions / perspectives. For example taking a photo at a landmark and returning to your car straight away could be considered a waste of the experience, but the person taking the photo could be using it for analysis or purpose.
Photography can enhance your experience if you're indeed taking it with intention (studies suggest), eg. for information, discovery, support, or bringing people together. Potentially my sister would argue that you can share a photo with intention too; to inform or uplift?
The main question this TedTalk highlighted for me was whether forgetting your phone/camera or not capturing the shot was a relief or limitation.
https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_sullivan_does_photographing_a_moment_steal_the_experience_from_you/transcript?language=en

Olivia Thompson:
My example asked the question 'Can artists be held to the same standards as other people?'
- What is the emotional cost of art?
- Are you condoning someone's actions by engaging with them?
- Why have we allowed art to invade our privacy?
- Can we appreciate an artists work without knowing their background?
- Do we need to know?

It made me think about how I view the arts and certain artists.
The articles I used were -

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artists-bend-ethics-arts-sake
https://www.theoryofknowledge.net/areas-of-knowledge/the-arts/what-is-the-relationship-between-art-and-ethics/

Linking ideas in a Rhizome rather than just thinking in a linear manor (roots tree).
What are your thoughts?

Collaboration and other Knowledges from the arts

Thinking about what knowledges we have in the performing arts/arts. There are activities and expectations we have because we engage with them all the time that we do not notice but in other settings (such as business settings) these are called skills. When a show is put together from its inception to the teamwork of tech, performers, musicians, front of house... we are used to working together. So what does it mean to work together or collaborate? For you is it a philosophical approach or just part of the culture of the arts. Is it something you bring into other settings you are in? Where do you stand on collaboration, team work, working together (all quite different from each other). Have look at this web-page learning area that talks about collaboration from a business perspective. I think it is useful to look at something familiar from a different perspective to better understand what it means to you.

What other knowledges do you notice your arts background have given you out of the practice of doing art?

Do you notice how the way things are described, the words used, can the 'importance' of an activity?

Please comment below and add links to your posts about about this.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-collaboration-in-the-workplace-definition-benefits-examples.html

Interview - more than one perspective to what is happening.

In the Module Three focus chat we had we talked about preparing for interviews. I recommend thinking about these too.

Book: Learning from strangers: the art and method of qualitative interview studies by Robert S. Weiss (it is on the reading list)

also watch this again

Monday Feb. 17th - BAPP Campus session

BAPP campus session
Monday 17th Feb-
10am -1pm 
Room number: CG48

Comment below if you will be joining us. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Module One Focus Skype - your practice

I have made a word cloud thingy of the words we used to summarize the conversation. Can you draw links between these words and the posts by the people who attended the Skype. Please comment below about the links you found (after you have read their posts of course!)

Tuesday Feb 11th- Online session with a Module 3 focus

Research terms- what are you doing?

Online Session- Module 3 Focus (ACI3633)
Tuesday the 11th of Feb- 8pm (time in London)

Comment below to indicate if you are coming. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Voice and three thoughts

This morning we had one of the two twlight Skype for today. 

Three points emerged

1) As you start Module Two thinking about a question - imagine that you will find it most clearly / understand it best at the end of Module Three!  That is what Module Three is for to better understand the question. So Module Two is about learning about research.

which leads to...
2) Research the different way to research 

3) continually developing what your practice is, means to you, looks like or does, runs as a strand through the whole course - each module should be informed by your gentle development and witnessing of what your own practice is.












Other good news 
Sophie  and Lorien are the news student reps (Student Voice Leaders) there are details for contacting them on UniHub.  

Background to Student Voice Leaders and you: The Programme Voice Groups (PVG’s) are one of the main formal channels of communication between staff and students. They are a forum in which students (through the Student Voice Leaders) and staff can constructively discuss areas of good practice as well as areas needing improvement, with the collective aim of enhancing the student experience. .

PVG’s occur each year and your Student Voice Leader will ask for programme feedback from you to report to staff at the pre-meeting to develop and agenda, for the points to be addressed at the main meeting. You will also be given feedback from both staff and the Student Voice Leaders on the outcomes of the feedback through the UniHub folder

The student voice meeting will be at the end of February. 

Monday Feb 10th- Online Session with a Module 1 focus

Seeing your Practice and self

Online Session- Module 1 Focus (ACI 3611)
Monday the 10th of Feb- 6pm (time in London)

Comment below to indicate if you are coming. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Knowing Knowledges

I am re-posting this blog post as it seemed to be really helpful for someone last term...
What are your thoughts?

In his book 'Knowing Knowledge' George Seimens talks about Learning Domains

In this course, we create the situation for all four of the domains he discusses in this course. But it is the combination of the four that is the Learning Environment of BAPP. The dance, the music, the play, the yoga class are made of a combination of elements and so is the learning environment of BAPP. 

Transmission Learning- The learner is brought into a system through lectures and exposed to ‘facts’.  The Unihub and Module Handbooks do this.

Emergence Learning– involves greater emphasis on the learner’s cognition and reflection. What you do with the UniHub and Handbooks and Blogs, and Skypes and conversations with your Supervisor.

Acquisition Domain– learning is exploratory and inquiry-based. This has to be self-directed (because it is your practice not anyone else’s) but self-directed does not mean alone you need to remain connected through sharing ideas (on blogs, in Skype discussions etc…). You explore this domain through looking at what you have done in the past (and writing past learning in Module One), looking at your current practice and how the course and ideas you encounter connect with it, through carrying out a project based inquiry. Sometimes you are considering all three at once (if you are in Module Three for instance).

Accretion Learning– is continuous, the learner forages for knowledge when and where it is needed – Real life and ongoing. This is shared through your blog – which is why your blog is so important to keep contributing to and why commenting on others people’s blogs is so helpful to them. 

Across all this ‘relevance’is crucial to look at critically.  This returns us to thinking about what truth, deception, distraction and fact mean to you/do to you. 

Lastly feedback (to each other on blogs and back and forth with your Supervisor) becomes a conversation - ongoing and not as set of instructions to get an 'A'. Go back to 'The Test'  in my blog on September 17th 2019 for John Green to explain that again...

Here is a video made about Connectivism which is the overarching idea for the network of learning domains. 

Please comment below....

Wednesday Feb 5th Discussion Group

Discussion group - (BAPP all Modules)
Wednesday 5th of February-
8:15am
 or 
9pm

Comment below to indicate which you will be joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Beginning in the Middle!!

Starting/Starting back to BAPP.

I have posted before about how 'starting' or beginning comes in different forms. See this post

http://adesolaa.blogspot.com/2018/09/beginnings.html 

But at the moment I am thinking about getting to the middle!! rather than thinking about beginning and ending - which we tend to do and dismiss the middle. As if the middle was just the vehicle for getting somewhere else. But as you know from my work - the process is the 'thing' the process is it, the journey is the learning part. So rather than think about making your study a compartment that must begin somewhere and end somewhere try thinking about how you get to the middle of it. How do you get to the point where you are in a routine, where you are familiar with some thoughts and books and people and they are mulling over in your head (in the supermarket or on the bus)? How do you get to enjoying the feeling of explaining an idea or dancing or reflecting on it in your journal that already has a number of pages you have written on? How do you get to your blog being a familiar place that you write in and have comments on and use to connect and comment with a group of students on BAPP you are fond of?

How do you get to be in the middle of your life not on its edges? That is what I am asking myself at the moment.

Please comment below

Welcome back Skype - make sure you have a contact.

We are looking forward to the Welcome Back Skypes on Friday and Saturday. If you have not Skyped with Adesola before you have to send a Skype contact request to Adesola. We can not find you, you have to send a message to us. If you are not in a Skype group titled for the date of the Welcome Skype you want it means Adesola does not have your Skype address/contact yet.

For those who are missing the welcome Skypes - all information is in the Handbooks (Skypes and campus sessions are not compulsory). But if you want to hear more about the sessions go to the blogs, read and comment there to continue the conversations in the Skypes etc...

Welcome back Skypes - January 2020

We have Skypes to start the term off - these are induction/reminder Skypes. These are particularly important for those starting the course and a good reminder for those coming back to a new Module.

The Skype times are:
Friday January 24th - 6pm 
or
Saturday January 25th - 3pm 
(times in London)

Please indicate below in the comments which you would like to attend. Make sure it is clear in your comment who you are!! Make sure you have sent a Skype request to Adesola prior to the call date.

BAPP Module Three presentations

Some great presentations from Module Three across the last two days - well done everyone.
We kept forgetting to take pictures after the first group.
But here is Monday morning's lovely people...