Thursday, 27 April 2017
Alone.
I have spent sometime looking through peoples blogs and I cant help but feel very proud of the fellow bapp students. It seems to be all coming together as we push over this final hurdle.
From Megan's blog she left Pauls blog explaining the presentations and showing examples and links to graduates work. This was incredibly helpful as I am now moving on to build my presentation, so I thought I would share it with you.
https://paulanottingham.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/oral-presentations-reviewing-and-advice.html
One of the blogs from paula's blog, mentions about meeting the students on the course for the first time and how nice it was to meet everyone in person. This led me to reflect on my journey through this course at the very beginning I was the only student who did the ROL before entering module 1. I felt incredibly worried and nervous and for the first time alone during my studies. With no class mates to call and check things through, I discovered that I had to find my own way and push out of my comfort zone.
Module 1 began and I still felt rather alone clicking through peoples blogs trying to figure out who was module 1 and honestly, figuring out how to use blogger!
During Module 2 regular names and faces were joining the skypes and I followed all the students blogs throughout the course. Module 2 also was the birth of the SIG Facebook group!
Now in module 3 I can say I do not feel alone in this final part. Even though I am; I'm working on my inquiry by myself and no one really truly knows what I have done, so I am really looking forward to sharing it at the presentations. The SIG group has been fantastic and I am really looking forward to meeting you all!
Good Luck!!
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Coffee Shop Chat
Skype
I am pleased that I was able to join Adesola and a mix of module 1 and 3 BAPP students for a general catch up.
This skype was incredibly beneficial and it was nice to hear how other students are doing. There are three main things that I have taken away from the Skype, I have explained these below.
1. "How do I join my work together? How do I make it into one whole thing?" Laurence and Ben helped me a lot when we spoke about my question. They suggested to create themes from my findings and then the literature matched up easier. Other suggestions were to look at it in a different angle and it is ok to do trials that don't work, just to keep going.
2. The Process- Adesola spoke about how you will be bias in your inquiry it is about being aware of it not pretending it isn't there.
3. "How do I stop story telling in my essay ?" It was great to be able to ask this question and really talk about academic writing style. The advise given was to discuss my inquiry within my essay. Add literature into the points that I am making so it isn't all just about what I did. How do my findings compare with literature?
A technique I have tried since the type chat was to generally discuss my inquiry with someone else. This was incredibly beneficial and I feel that I have made sense of what I need to put into my essay. I asked my participant to ask me questions on parts they didn't understand, this helped me as this highlighted where my weakness were in our discussion.
On reflection to the Skype I have thought about the module 1 students that joined in the Skype session, it made me realise what a journey I have been on since the beginning. I am excited to finish my work and graduate, but there is a part of me that is looking forward to the next part, but there isn't a next part! Feel like I have realised that its nearly over!
Short blog today but please to comment below if you have any thoughts or if you have tried discussing your inquiry with someone else.
I am pleased that I was able to join Adesola and a mix of module 1 and 3 BAPP students for a general catch up.
This skype was incredibly beneficial and it was nice to hear how other students are doing. There are three main things that I have taken away from the Skype, I have explained these below.
1. "How do I join my work together? How do I make it into one whole thing?" Laurence and Ben helped me a lot when we spoke about my question. They suggested to create themes from my findings and then the literature matched up easier. Other suggestions were to look at it in a different angle and it is ok to do trials that don't work, just to keep going.
2. The Process- Adesola spoke about how you will be bias in your inquiry it is about being aware of it not pretending it isn't there.
3. "How do I stop story telling in my essay ?" It was great to be able to ask this question and really talk about academic writing style. The advise given was to discuss my inquiry within my essay. Add literature into the points that I am making so it isn't all just about what I did. How do my findings compare with literature?
A technique I have tried since the type chat was to generally discuss my inquiry with someone else. This was incredibly beneficial and I feel that I have made sense of what I need to put into my essay. I asked my participant to ask me questions on parts they didn't understand, this helped me as this highlighted where my weakness were in our discussion.
On reflection to the Skype I have thought about the module 1 students that joined in the Skype session, it made me realise what a journey I have been on since the beginning. I am excited to finish my work and graduate, but there is a part of me that is looking forward to the next part, but there isn't a next part! Feel like I have realised that its nearly over!
Short blog today but please to comment below if you have any thoughts or if you have tried discussing your inquiry with someone else.
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