First 'Tuesday' discussion group chat

Its the beginning the month !! and we have our First Tuesday Discussion Group skype.

Tuesday March 7th at 7pm (time in London)

This is a chance to talk to other people on the course, and share ideas, and thoughts. Discussion is a great way to deepen your own understanding and hear new ideas and perspectives. Looking forward to talking to you all.
Please comment below to indicate you will be joining the discussion.

Speak soon
Adesola

1st Tuesday of the month skype chat coming up

We have our First Tuesday Group Skype Chats this week - November 3rd
10am (In London)
or
8pm (In London)

Comment below to let me know which chat you want to join.
:)

Adesola

Welcome back Module Twos and Threes

Welcome back and congratulations on keeping going in your BAPP journey. As you know the new term starts Monday 28th September. We have a welcome back group Skype chat Friday 25th at 8pm (time in London) or Saturday 26th at 11am (time in London)

Module Two is quite heavy going in terms of getting reading done. By the end of the module you will have a plan mapped out for an inquiry activity you will carry out in Module Three. But the whole of module two is there to help you build this. Do not think you have to know now what you want to do!! In fact, if you did then what would be the point of doing the module! You have to trust the process a bit more in this module. If you follow along the Reader, reading, tasks and join in with conversations ideas will emerge and that is the best way to develop what you want to do.

Those starting Module Three, you need to respond to your feedback from Module Two. Ultimately you need to send a written response but you might want to talk over ideas with your Advisor. You also need to check your participant consent form has final approval (by your Advisor) BEFORE  you start interviews or observations officially.  

Other house keeping: my advisor one-to-one times (office hours) are 10am to 11am week days. For weekends and other times by appointment (i.e. email me times you are available).

So now is a good time to just get yourself back in study mode. making a space to work physically, as well as in your schedule, and mentally. I am looking forward to a great term with you.

Please comment below to let me know if you plan to join in the skype chats. State which time you are join in with.

NOTE: If I do not have your current skype address you need to send me a request BUT within the request you must state who you are and that you are on BAPP or I will not be able to accept the request.

Looking forward to talking together September 25^th or 26^th

Adesola

Tuesday coffee shop group Skype chat!!!

This Tuesday is our Group Skype chat. We romantically imagine BAPP students all over UK and the world going to a quiet coffee shop or sitting in the lunch room at work or in your house chatting together about the course - things you have discovered, questions and comments. These group Skype calls are for people across the modules to share, give advice and tell us what has been happening on your learning journey. We have this sessions because we believe learning is a collaborative process and that we learn from what is around us and from each other - we learn from experience.

So we have two session an AM session
10am in London

and a PM session
9pm in London

IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE UK PLEASE REMEMBER OUR CLOCKS CHANGE ON SUNDAY
so calculate in the hour forward change.

Please let me know which session you are joining in with by posting a comment below. As always make sure I have your Skype address before the session time starts. If you want to join in and I do not call you then Skype me and I can add you to the conversation then and there.

Speak soon
Adesola

October 15 PM Skype session: have a look at what we talked about!!

Today’s PM SKYPE session went well. We were a conversation of five people. We talked about The tasks and how they need to be useful to the overall point of the BA – a BA in Professional Practice. The tasks are not there as hoops to jump through they are there to get you thinking. We found there might be good reasons why you do not do a task at all. The point of them is get you thinking about what you do and learn from being a professional in your field. They are there to get you to make real (concrete) your practice. See where “YOU” are in it.

Rachel is going to write a post on this: how the first module is to help you ‘to real-ise what you learnt as a professional rachelmorris8387@blogspot.co.uk

Tina is going to write about this too from the perspective of why or why not to ‘do’ tasks but to think about them, http://lynnterry001.blogspot.com

We talked about what a Literature Review is and how it is about seeing where people stand or what they think in a particular area or field of practice. Chiara is going to write about this and also about how it is interesting to talk to and listen to people who are in modules you have completed because they remind you of ideas and feelings you experienced, http://cvainella.blogspot.com

Sarah is going to write about how useful the conversation was for hearing different perspectives on the tasks and activities in the modules, http://sarahsmales.blogspot.co.uk/

It is great to talk together to work out ideas and to hear what other people are thinking. This course is not about completing things we ask you to do it is about getting you thinking and talking to people getting you thinking and communicating your ideas.

Looking forward to November SKYPE talks.

Adesola

SKYPE chat tomorrow and residency for fun!!

Hi Don't forget we have our group SKYPE Chat (Second Tuesday Coffee House Chat) tomorrow Tuesday April 8th. we have one at 11am and one at 8pm this month. Looking forward to hearing how things are going.

Also triip (Turning Research Ideas Into Practice) is holding a one day residency at Hendon on April 22nd  2pm-6pm. triip is the dance opportunity company we run that gives dancers the opportunity to work with choreographers and get known. This is important because often choreographers like to work with people they already know. April 22nd we have Leroy Dias Dos Santos. If you are not a member of trip you can come as a guest. Just email me and let me know. It might be something fun to do as a break from all the BAPP writing !! Keep up-dates at
http://dancingstrongblog.blogspot.com

Residency with Leroy Dias Dos Santos, April 22nd 2pm-6pm

Making meaning through talking to each other: April 8th Group Skype chat.

Almost April and I mean that in a its-got-to-get-warmer-and-warmer sort of way not time is flying by!!! Either way our April group SKYPE chat is coming up APRIL 8^th. These chats are really helpful and support the campus sessions in that they are opportunities to ask questions and talk to other people on the course, some of whom have done what you are doing and some who are doing it now too. We have two times to fit around different work schedules. You can join in with either (or both!!)

‘Lunch time-ish ‘ – 11am

‘Evening-ish’ – 8pm (note sometimes we do 8:45 but it will be 8pm this month)

If you have not joined in before you need to make sure I have your skype address, do this by sending me a request on skype. In the request write BAPP so I know who it is from. If you have joined in before you know how useful and inspiring talking to each other can be so please be a part of the chat again.

As we get closer to the hand-in date it is important to keep blogging and talking; sharing your ideas. This is part of working through your initial ideas to find a deeper more meaningful way to look at the experiences of the module and what they mean within your professional practice. It is also important to know your experiences are shared by the rest of the BAPP community and interesting to hear how other people have interpreted and dealt with things.

Look forward to talking with you

Adesola

Added skpye session on Thursday AND a little about our Tuesday chat.

Yesterday was our SKYPE chat. the morning chat was pretty small!! but I think quite useful. We talked about making sure you know what your analysis process is going to be. this is important for both Module two-ers and three-ers particularly. There is no point collecting data if you don't know what you are going to do with it. If you don't know what you are going to do with it you start to feel you just need more and more data as if collecting it will somehow get you to some answers. But it is the analysis that takes you to the step of addressing the questions and desire for more knowledge that the inquiry is addressing. 

There are a couple of ways to engage with analysis, here a few ideas:

-Mapping: using the data to start to better understand how something works, or what something is like or where things or people stand within a topic. For instance, this would be to have data that about 'what dance teachers think of teaching boys dance'. You would use the teachers responses to look at the landscape of teaching boys dance - where does it seem to be 'easier' (teachers feel that when teaching them street dance they are more engaged than when teaching ballet, it seems that the boys in doing dance classes in state schools are have better behaviour than boys in private dance schools), then you look at why you think things have mapped out like this - you use the literature to help to theorise about why things look like this. You also use your own experience. You can also question the data itself: did who answered the question or how the question was asked affect the data you collected.

- Critique: you use the data to inform a critique of the behaviour or phenomena of something. Maybe you asked 'why do dancers get injured?' you use your data to look at a problem (getting injured). You might then identify that certain circumstance lead to injury. You compare what you found with what the literature says and your own experience. You explain the practical situations when something happens and explain why you think that is. You can also question the data itself: did who answered the question or how the question was asked affect the data you collected.

- Action research - you identify something you want to 'try out'… you try it out.. you look at whether it had the affect you were expecting, you think about what happened and why. You use the literature to both plan the change you try out and then to understand what happened after you tried it out. You can also question the data itself: did who answered the question or how the question was asked affect the data you collected.

How are you finding the idea of analysis?

The evening session got moved to Thursday March 13th….. so you can still join in this month. 

Looking forward to talking to you
Adesola

OMG - its almost another Second Tuesday (non-campus session)

Finally some spring-ish weather and the second Tuesday of March!! So tomorrow Tuesday 11th is another SKYPE chat day. We have two times one in the morning at 11am and one in the evening at 8:45 (London time).

The SKYPE calls are like non-campus sessions where you can ask questions and find solutions and up-date on how your work is going. If you have not joined in before it's a great chance to collaborate to other people on the course and hear their experiences and ideas and solutions.

All you need to do is be on-line  on SKYPE.
BUT
if I don't already have your SKYPE address then make sure you send me a contact request so I can call you.

Looking forward to hearing how things are going and speak to you tomorrow…
Adesola

February Second Tuesday talks

The Second Tuesday Group SKYPEs went well this week. We had a mix of students from across the modules. It is really useful to talk to people who have just done the module you are on or who are a step a head of you so you can see where things are leading. We talked from UK, China, Germany and USA.
We were:
http://ehbutterfly.blogspot.co.uk
http://ionaholland.blogspot.co.uk
http://pipspalton.blogspot.co.uk
http://julia-v-gil.blogspot.de
Lucy Jennings and
Ruth Woods
Visit their blogs and say hi too.

We talked about the anxiety of getting started. Trying to avoid the idea of 'confusion' and embrace the idea of 'not knowing yet'. If you are going to have a genuine  learning experience you are very likely not to know where it will end. You can't know the end at the beginning or you wouldn't be learning anything new. We talked about how if you are feeling 'confused': work out specific questions or identify particular issues rather than just see the whole thing as 'confusing'.

For Module Two we talked about how you do not need a specific question at this point just a bit of an idea of the general area you are in. Also that the word 'question' does not mean something to answer. But 'question' in the sense of something you what to know more about.

Tips people talked about were:

• Look at other peoples blogs especially blogs from people who have just finished the module you are on now. 
• Read the whole Reader/Handbook first so you get an overview of the whole module. You can just skim-read just to get the overall picture. 
• Work little and often don't wait to the 'end' to get everything done.
• Work out your time management across the term
• Work with peers

The next group SKYPEs are Tuesday March 11th, 11am (London time) and 8:45 (London time)

Second Coffee shop SKYPE group meeting

Hi
This Tuesday (February 11th) are our SKYPE group meetings
One is at 11am and a second one at 8:45pm
They are really a great way to exchange ideas and find out more about the course and how others are getting on with the tasks.
If you are going to join in make sure I have your SKYPE address by sending me a request. All you have to do is be on-line at the time. But you can send me an email to let me know you are joining in too or leave a comment. Hope to speak to you Tuesday.
Adesola
:)

Just saw my blog post last week did not post properly so here it is again:
Welcome back to BAPP. …..Now I lost the whole post!!!
But I was basically saying looking forward to working with everyone this term. Now is the time to look at feedback if you are returning. And if you are new, have a look at other peoples blogs to see what people have said and done before you.

Adesola !!

2nd Tuesday Coffee SKYPE

Great lunch time Coffee SKYPE but not many people! Hope to talk to you this evening at 8:45pm (London time) if you missed this mornings.

Adesola

Next week is.....Second Tuesday Coffee shop SKYPE (November 12th)

OK now its getting colder... the perfect time to be that fabulous romanic image of the student: wear a long scarf, wrap your hands around a hot cup of chocolate and sit in the corner of a coffee shop SKYPEing and feeling super clever!! Its time for Novembers Second tuesday Coffee shop SKYPE meetings.

November 12th 
One is at 11am (Lunch-ish)
The evening one is at 8:45pm (changed from 8:15 as it was)

If you have not joined in before it s really easy - it is just away to chat about the modules with each other and advisors in real time, (instead of asynchronous time like on a blog). It is really nice to be able to talk about what you are doing, thinking and ask other people how they are approaching ideas. If you have not SKYPEd me before then you need to email me your SKYPE address or send me a request on SKYPE.

If you are going to join let me know comment here (or send an email).
Adesola

Place, Tasks and Journey

We had our two Second Tuesday Coffee Group SKYPES yesterday. The first one was at 11am. Iona from Module 2 and Melanie from 3 were a part of it. The main point we all agreed on was the importance of making a ‘space’ to work – this is not just a time but the ‘Place’. Maybe a favourite coffee shop corner or a desk in your room.  Having a place helps you get back into things and helps you define the idea of starting something…

The second, Second Tuesday Coffee Grout SKYPE one was 8:45 everyone was from Module One. There the conversation was about what exactly the first module is about!! We talked about how the tasks are not what you ‘hand-in’.

·      The Tasks are more a map for the journey of the module.

·      Then the work you hand in the Reflective essay etc… is about the journey of the module.

·      The journey of the module is thinking about yourself and learning in terms of your professional practice: looking at what you have learnt and how through the embodied activity of your day-to-day practice you learn about your professional world. There is a difference here in the style of work being done – you are not being told what to do, you are following your own ideas and getting feedback and guidance from the advisors and feedback and comments from your peers in the course. Just like in the professional world you are  finding out more by doing…

·      and the tasks give you something to be doing (!) that we think will lead you to finding out more.

It was great to chat to everyone people talked together from Northern UK, Estonia, and London.  Looking forward to the next one. We have changed the second evening chat to starting at 8:45pm

Adesola