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| BA / FdA EOYS Invite 2012 |
Its been just over 2 months since I was last here and you ' dear blog' have had a make over too ummm...
So what's new, or more to the point what have I not been doing reference Doc stuff??? oh dear not a lot, but I shall come to that shortly. The past couple of months has seen assessment period, external examiner (who offered me a post in Plymouth!! but I have not heard anything since so that's that) build up of HE show and PV (great success) and further the build up of FE show and PV (again another great success-met the major no.? Ive lost count)....and yet another external examiner yesterday, since then we have received a no. of texts from students wanting to know there final grades for FMP. Next week and beyond will host 2 sits of exam boards, 1 period review and staff development...I'm worn out thinking about it and you ask; why do I sit here explaining all this? Well I firstly wanted to explain my long absence and secondly I'm trying to make myself feel better for understanding the vast amount of work I do have on; which unfortunately means that the doctorate will endeavour to always come second to everything.
We, that is, AS and I are now working on the bridging module. DE0949 project management and Systems Thinking with B Young. BM started 3rd May and hand in is 28th June2012. However due to time constraints with lots of activity going on (for which I have explained above) AS and I are going up to Northumbria University Friday 22nd June to meet and discuss with BY our submissions to Viva, which basically is what the BM is all about. We have been given 2 examples of viva's which look pretty straight forward, note here I say that with such confidence????
I need to get on with it now...look at my objectives for the next 3 years, which I guess I have (need to extend upon however) looking at the obs the examples present, SN in particular, I felt had far to many, 10 objectives?? Im surprised she wasn't asked to (what's the word??) make them more to the point, no..arhh yes condense them down. Anyway I need to do that, look at a methodology, who is my audience that the research will serve most..as B Young suggests; pedagogical, educationalist or student theoretical prop? could express a set of theories, simple way to support learning. I must also set up another meeting with S English, I had to cancel last session as working, note here to myself that last meeting with SE (10.5.2012) he feed back final mark to 'Report in Progress' (I received (D-good stuff!) needed to be more accessible to supporting links, all the underpinning stuff that feeds into paper I believe...I think this is quite difficult as a distant learning but I will take SE observation on board. Last word on this issue of openness, is I did start to build a website...but was then weary of making work public...so reverted to 'dropbox', I guess I will need to give that more thought if my research is accepted at viva stage.
Further to the above, that is meeting with BY, I'm hoping that we will get some sort of an extension at least July? Must ask K.
Ok some good news and what I hope to be beneficial to RQ, is that I hope (as not booked yet) to attend BFI conference, London 4th - 6th July 2012. There are some good talks being presented, in particular Friday..further I want to meet some like minded people, it will be a bit adhoc (taking a risk here) as film is not my specialist area, however what I'm trying ascertain is to look at the RQ from another perspective...will see!
Last word is to Karen Thompson http://karent.co.uk/ who I met last weekend whilst helping AK at his Open Studios in Scarborough. I bought this piece...thanks Karen!
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| Karen Thompson 2012 |
