Submission of Work and Finalist Presentations...

As you all make the final push to prepare your work for assessment, a few notes and an open invitation for you all to attend (in person or via skype) our MA finalists presentations this term.


Submission of work:

May 3rd 2019 is the submission date for all work across all modules of the MAPP programmes. Work is to be submitted via Turnitin by 23:59 (please don't leave it until this time though in case of computer/system problems...please submit your work in good time. Any late submissions are classed as non-submissions and receive a fail grade. 

The Turnitin drop box is under your Module folder on your MAPP (DTP, DANCE or Somatic Studies) page on UniHub. Please check that you have found this and tried submitting work ahead of the deadline. You can re-submit work, each new submission simply replaces the previous one, up until the deadline date/time on May 3.

Please email a copy of your submitted work to us as Programme Leaders so that we have it as a back-up in case of any problems with turnitn. Please email to both a.akinleye@mdx.ac.uk and h.kindred@mdx.ac.uk again by the deadline. This is simply as a back-up, we cannot accept any late submissions via email in the same way that they will not be accepted via turnitin.


Finalists on the MAPP DTP and MAPP Dance programmes will present their research over two days in May also. Each student will share the journey of their research inquiry and their professional artefact with us as the culmination of their MAPP programme.  All MAPP students are invited and encouraged to attend these to support the MAPP community and to get an insight into others areas of research and practice. Details below: 

Please let us know via email if you intend to attend via skype so that we can call you in.
 

MA Professional Practice, Dance Technique Pedagogy 

and 

MA Professional Practice Dance

Finalist Presentations

Thursday May 9^th and Friday May 10^th 2019

 

Room C106 (College Building) please go to Main reception on arrival

Middlesex University London

Presentations will run from 13.00-16.00 (UK time)  

Each presentation (including sharing of the artefact) is 30mins in length with some time for questions/comments afterwards.

You do not have to attend for the whole session but please be mindful of timings if you are dipping in and out of the session.

Sunday Open Discussion... Communicating Ideas...

We had lots of voices on the Open Discussion Group call this evening. 
We talked about communication of our ideas both within our practice and within the MA. 
We talked about the need to recognise and acknowledge the 'bigger picture', looking beyond your immediate knowledge of something, moving beyond a personal narrative of experience in order to be selective, more critical in your communication.  

Some of my notes while people spoke included;

Process
Translation
Finding different ways
authenticity
asking questions
focusing
recognising challenges
making comparisons
listening to (becoming aware of) other perspectives

All of these words I feel have resonance with your journey on the MA. They came from listening to you speaking of communication in your practices. They are my interpretation of what was said. 

Do share through your blogs your interpretation of the conversations this evening. What did you take from them, what thinking was sparked maybe, or challenged, how might you relate this process to the process of communicating your ideas through your writing for your module assignments?

Remember that the MA itself is a process you are engaging with. It is not a fixed thing. Each module is developmental, connecting to the next module, to your practice to the wider field of practice around you. There is not an end point in your learning by the end of module three, it is still part of the process of your learning through practice which will continue beyond the MA.