Monday Sept 28th - Seeing your Practice and self - Module One focus

Monday Sept 28^th 2020

Online session with ACI 3611 Module One focus

Seeing your Practice and self

6pm (time in London)

These discussion group Skypes are a time to talk across the BAPP learning community and practice speaking to others about your work. Please write below to indicate if you will be attending 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).

Networks of information - social media

We have looked at social media and Web 2.0 in Module one. Over the last ten years since BAPP started in the form it is today social medias 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 course 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 particularly for those reflecting in Module One. 

*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.

Friday September 25th - Research as mapping: Module Two focus discussion

Friday Sept 25^th 2020

Online session with ACI3622 Module Two focus

Research as mapping to build understanding

6pm (time in London)

These discussion group Skypes are a time to talk across the BAPP learning community and practice speaking to others about your work. Please write below to indicate if you will be attending 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).

Twilights - Wednesday 23rd Sept. All module discussion group

Wednesday Sept 23^rd 2020

Wednesday discussion group BAPP all modules

8.15am (time in London)

or 

9pm (time in London) 

These discussion group Skypes are a time to talk across the BAPP 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 terms is starting soon!!
We are having Welcome / Welcome back Skypes
Friday September 11th 3pm and 6pm  (time in London)

Saturday September 12th  3pm and 6pm (time in London)

Comment below to let us know which one you will attending. 

Note we have added two induction times so now there are four. Please indicate which day and time you want to attend. Thank you. 

Welcome and welcome back Sykes September 2020

Great to be starting the new term.


We have welcome / welcome back skypes on
Friday September 11th at 6pm (time in London)

Saturday September 12th 3pm (time in London)

Please comment below to indicate which you will attend. 

This might be helpful to some people...

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/

Important reading - We See You

This is a recent open letter from people working in Theatre in USA - We See You.

The signatories include the Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda; the film and television stars Viola Davis and Blair Underwood; and many Tony Award winners, including the actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson and the playwright David Henry Hwang, who is the chair of the American Theater Wing and choreographers such as Dianne McIntyre.  

The statement, outlining a series of ways in which, it argues, artists of color are unjustly treated in the theater world, declares itself to be “in the legacy of August Wilson’s ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’,” an important 1996 speech by the playwright about race and the American theater. Headlined “We See You, White American Theater,” the statement repeatedly uses the phrase “we see you” to punctuate its observations about the theater world, and adds, “We have always seen you. And now you will see us".

http://bway.ly/i23u2a#https://www.weseeyouwat.com/

Well Done - Summer

Well done, Module Three's on your presentations this month.

Well done, everyone on a creative, reflective term.

We are now in a marking period with grading and boards. You will receive feedback on your submitted work over the summer.

We start back on September 14th, with 'welcome back Skypes' are 11th and 12th September.

There will be sign-up blogs for 'welcome back Skypes' posted at the end of August on Adesola Blog (here!!). Unihub will be up-dated with new term in formation in August also. Keep an eye on the blogs from time to time. Keep an eye on your Middlesex Student emails for any admin. correspondence.

Have a good recuperative summer.

Feedback

Dear All
Please remember feedback on drafts had a deadline almost a month ago. Most people have sent a draft of some kind to us. Overall your feedback is about structure, construction, and writing devices such as citation. feedback on one piece of writing can be used by you to question other pieces of writing. In other words if you received feedback on something on one draft check the same thing yourself on other drafts.

If you have any specific feedback questions or ideas you want to discuss and I am your Supervisor please call me. I will NOT prioritize responding to emails asking me if you can call, because I have now said this a number of times, it is in the handbooks, and it is on UniHub - you can call particularly during office hours. These last weeks of term are best used developing your confidence in your work, looking at the learning outcomes in the handbook and reflecting on your study this term in order to think about how your final submissions can be tweeked.

Adesola

Module Three Presentations May 6th & 7th

Please attend to support Module three students presenting their inquiry work.

Wednesday May 6^th – Presentation 10am -1pm, Presenters: Cathleen Limerick, Siobhan Richardson, Benny Tyas. (presenters need to be available in afternoon too) 

Thursday May 7^th – Presentation 10:00am – noon, Presenters: Emi Ichikawa, Thomas Holdsworth, Louise Elliott, Taylor Byrnes. 

Please comment below:

Community Skype (Breakfast Club) - Saturday April 25th

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

9:15am (time in London)

Please comment below to join:

Monday April 20th- Online session with a module 3 focus

The ways ideas can be communicated

Online session- Module 3 focus (ACI3633)

Monday the 20th 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.

Books on-line reminder

Via UniHub

UniHub > My UniHub > My Study > Click on your module pages – this opens up My Learning > Click on a module

On the right hand side of the page you will see your personal etextbook

Click on that to go to your book

Directly via the Kortext website

Visit the Kortext website at https://app.kortext.com/login and enter your University email address and your Kortext password – your password was emailed to you when you first started at Middlesex University.

If you do not know your password, you can reset it:

1.       click "Forgot password"

2.       enter your Kortext username - this is your MDX email address -

3.       you will then have an email sent to your MDX email address

4.       follow the link contained in this email

5.       create a new password for Kortext

Via a Kortext app (and accessing the books offline)

There are Kortext apps available for Windows, Mac OS, iOS & Android and these are all available for free from the relevant app store for your device.

Download the relevant app and log-in using your credentials as above. The books can then downloaded to the app and accessed offline as well as online.

More info available at https://www.kortext.com/support-and-accessibility/

If you do not know your password then please refer to the instructions detailed above.

As well as accessing your Kortext content support is available for you 7 days a week. This can be accessed at eithersupport@kortext.com, filling out a Kortext enquiry via UniHelp or selecting the help icon on the Kortext website

Community Skype - April 9th

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

7:15pm (time in London)

Please comment below to join:

Ethical thinking and Critical Reflection

We had people from each Module, so we traced across the Modules. We traced ethics and critical reflection across the development of the Modules.

Points we made were:

Critical reflection and ethics - we suggested ethical considerations are a 'sub-set' within critical thinking practices.

Ethical considerations - are not things to solve, they are things to reflect on -

But ethical procedures are things you can put into place to be aware of one's own privilege.

Ethical procedures can start to feel like tick box activity but they come from ethical considerations.

Ethics helps you see/notice what you have been 'taught' to think, and what you have been 'taught' to expect from those around you.

Look at the 'rules' of the MORE form and linking them to the actual ethical considerations discussed in your inquiry.

Reflecting on ones practice: looking at where you have made ethical procedure disisions such as 'I am not doing that/ or saying that because I know how much of a negative feeling I got when a teacher say it to me. These are procedural decisions.

Reflecting in the action of the Module you are in, but also reflection back on the Modules you've done (or heard about). 

We also traced the idea of 'not knowing' across the Module experiences. At first (in Module One) it can be almost frightening but as you learn about your self and practice you find that the more you know the more you be come aware of what you do not yet know. Perhaps education is about how we find ways of being comfortable with, and available to the known and the not known, the learnt and the to be learnt.

Please comment below...

Community discussion group - Thursday April 2nd

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

7:15 pm (time in London)

Please comment below to join: 

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...