Being a student...

Following another great Skype chat with many of you on Sunday, I said I would post something here about being a student, looking not so much at the academic side, but your new status as 'a student' and what they may afford you in terms of identity, money saving, access to events etc..

So, first point of call is getting your Middlesex University Student ID card:
Once enrolled you can send a passport sized photo of yourself to me via email <h.kindred@mdx.ac.uk> and by return I'll send you a form to complete and return and you'll be issued with your Middlesex University Student ID card.
If you're local and want to call into the Hendon campus let me know and I'll happily meet you for a coffee and we can get your ID card, form filled, photo taken while you're here, it takes about 10minutes.

This card proves your status as a student at Middlesex, allows you access to the library on campus and to check out any books you may want to borrow,  but is not a recognised Student Card for obtaining wider discounts/student benefits.

For that, if you're UK based, you need to apply for membership with the National Union of Students (NUS).
The NUS website has a lot of information about life as a student, support, study, social life...and you can buy an NUS card online for £30, which will allow you to access a range of discounts on food, days out, clothes, cinema, exhibitions etc..  Follow the links to check it all out for yourselves and see if it is something you could use, there are lots of advertised discounts here, and you'll be surprised how many more you can get just by asking and showing your NUS card even when not advertised.

http://www.nus.org.uk

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/nus-extra/discounts/


For those of you not based in the UK, check out the NUS International Students page

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/who-we-are/how-we-work/international-students/

and look into the benefits for you of getting an International Student Identity Card;

http://www.isic.org/get-your-card/

Recognising your student status and allowing you access to a very similar range of discounts and benefits.

See how you get on with these and do blog yourselves about any other benefits you find to share with each other.

Helen

Skype for you...

A warm welcome to all of you joining us on the MAPP DTP this term!

It was great to meet so many of you at our Skype Induction this evening, and I look forward to talking with you all again soon and working with you on your journeys through the MA.  If you didn't make it onto skype this evening, don't worry, if you're reading this you've connected with us in some way and they'll be another opportunity to meet everyone on skype again next Sunday.

Given our growing community on the MAPP DTP, in number and location (which both Adesola and I are really excited about!) we thought it may be good to offer 2 skype sessions per month, one at a UK morning time, the other at UK evening time, to give you the choice to check-in at a time that suits you, and so that we are not too many voices in one epic call!

The skype sessions scheduled for this term are as follows; feel free to join when you can, put the dates in your diaries now and if you're online be a part of the call : )

All times are given as UK (London) time:

Sun Sept 21; 19.00 - all returning students to check-in and newly enrolled students welcome
Sun Oct 5; 19.00  
Sun Oct 12; 11.00
Sun Nov 2; 19.00
Sun Nov 9; 11.00
Sun Dec 7; 19.00
Sun Dec 14; 11.00

We won't hold a group skype over the winter break (Dec 19-Jan 5) but appreciate that Jan 5 is your submission date at the end of this term, so we will blog the week of Dec 29, with a hand-in check list and you will be able to contact your advisor that week via email also.

So, plan now for all new students ahead of our first week on Sept 29;

• Set up your blog and share something of yourself, your thoughts as you start on the MA (fears are good to share too!)  Email me with your blog address so that I can add you to the list on our Learning Community on Unihub.
• Think about your work/home environment and maybe try out where/how you think you can work effectively, be it out at a coffee shop, at a quiet time of day for you at home, getting an early start on your day before work...whatever works for you.
• Read through the Module Handbook, note down any questions you may have.
• Check-in with your advisor to make sure you are in contact, have the correct emails, discuss how contact may work best for you, be it email, phone, Skype...

Have a great week!

Helen

New directions...

A short interim blog to begin to get our thoughts into MAPP mode again before the start of the new term.  I hope everyone has had / is having some kind of break this summer and feeling refreshed for the next study period!

Adesola and I have been looking both at dates and scheduling for MAPP for the coming year and also at accessibility of resources and building our MAPP community online and we have now made a move over to integrating the MAPP DTP with the university's UniHub system.  So, before the start of term take a few minutes and visit our new page.

http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk

login to MyUniHub
Click on MyLearning
Go to MA Professional Practice Dance Technique Pedagogy page

NB: please don't follow the guides allocated under the module codes (WBS4510, 4630, 4760) these are generic Work-Based Learning guides, which although helpful, are not geared to our subject specific learning on the MAPP DTP

On the MA Professional Practice Dance Technique Pedagogy page you will find folders headed simply;

Handbooks & Resources
Learning Community
University Resources
Submission - January
Submission - May

Take a look through, your new handbooks for the modules you'll be starting in Sept are there for you, along with reading lists and supporting materials.  We've made a Learning Community folder to give you direct easy access to everyone's blogs, our Linked-In discussion group and offered a guide to the support you can benefit from on the MAPP DTP, how to use tutorials, when to submit drafts of work etc... University Resources offers you links to the library catalogue and advisers, finance and disability support services should you need to contact someone there, and the Submission folders are where you'll now submit your work at the end of the modules - we'll talk through all of this during our Skype chats beforehand so don't panic, it is very easy to upload/submit.

Take a look and please do comment on here and let us know of anything else you think would be useful to have on the page - it's for you!

Some dates to share for you all for now:

Welcome back Skype group call for all will be on SUNDAY SEPT 21 at 19.00 UK time
The shift to a later time on Sundays for our Skype calls is to accommodate all MAPPers and find a time that hopefully works wherever we all are in the world!

Start of term 1- Monday Sept 29, 2014
Holiday period runs Dec 19 - Jan 5 (we will have a pre hand-in skype on Jan 4)
Submission at the end of term 1 - Jan 5, 2015
Finalist presentations (Module Three) - Jan 19, 2015

Start of term 2 - Monday Feb 2, 2015
Holiday period runs March 27 - April 19 (limited access to advisors during this time)

Submission at the end of term 2 - May 11, 2015
Finalist presentations (Module Three) - May 29, 2015


So...dates in diaries, check in on MyUniHub to the MAPP DTP page, have a read through your next module handbook, of course feel free to blog anytime and enjoy the rest of the summer!


Helen

Presentations tomorrow!!!

Just a reminder that Gill and Hopal will be presenting their Research Projects and sharing the final part of their MAPP DTP journey with us tomorrow from 11.30am.

A room change to note:

Theses will take place in  the College Dance Studio (CG60) now NOT the Upper Forum as previously posted.

The College Dance Studio is in the main college building.  From reception head straight over towards the Costa area, our the door to the left of the counter, past the Ladies on your right, through double doors and you'll see a sign overhead for the College Dance Studio (CG60) pointing you right.

Look forward to seeing lots of you there!

Best
Helen

Finalist Presentations...

 Past and current MAPP DTP folks, you are warmly invited to...

MA Professional Practice, Dance Technique Pedagogy

Finalist Presentations

June 2^nd 2014 

The Upper Forum Studio

Middlesex University London

Schedule of the day:

11.30-12.10 Hopal Romans – Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

Questions, comments, invited

12.20-13.00 Gillian Page – Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

Questions, comments, invited

 Please do come and share in / support Hopal and Gill's research!

Presentation...

Great to talk to so many of you this morning, exciting to hear snippets of your journeys and really pleased to share in your questioning of dance research.

As promised, here are our presentation guidelines ahead of submission of your written papers on the 13th.

Any questions, on this or your work in general, do get in touch.

Looking forward to seeing you on June 2.

Helen

Presentation of Essays

Guidelines

Essays should be typed, 1.5 or double spaced, on one side of the paper only. 

Please justify the margins on both sides. Fonts: use Times New Roman, Arial or Garamond. 

The cover page should include; 

your name

student number

programme and year

module number and title

module tutor

full title of assignment and date written and word count.

Please do not use bold type or underlining in your essay, but italicize any foreign words as well as book titles and titles of choreographic works, plays or films. Use single quotes (‘and “double quotes” inside single quotes’).

1)            References in bibliography:

A bibliography is a list of all source material you have used, whether or not you have quoted from it. It is important to show that you have extended your knowledge by referring to other texts/works/authorities. A bibliography should be presented in alphabetical order of author’s surname. There are various ways of setting out a bibliography, but the details should always include:

Book:

Surname, Initial(s). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place of Publication: Publisher.

For example:

Ostwald, P. 1999. Vaslav Nijinsky. A Leap into Madness. London: Robson Books.

Edited book:

Surname, Initial(s). (ed.). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place: Publisher.

For example:

Carter, A. (ed.). 1998. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader. London: Routledge.

Book chapter:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Chapter title. In Name of editor (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, pages in book.

For example:

Carter, A. 1996. Bodies of knowledge: Dance and feminist analysis. In Patrick Campbell (ed.), Analysing performance. A critical reader. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 43-55.

Journal articles:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Title of article. Title of journal volume (issue no.), page numbers.

For example:

Gill, R., and Pratt, A. 2008. In the Social Factory? Immaterial Labour, Precariousness and Cultural Work. Theory, Culture & Society 25(7), 1–30.

Videography / DVDs (a list of videos /DVDs you have used):

Name of choreographer. Date of work. Title of work in italics. [DVD/video, etc]. Place of distribution, distributing company.

For example:

Khan, A. and Cherkaoui, S.L. 2008. Zero Degrees [DVD]. Sadler’s Wells on Screen. Axiom Films International Limited.

Media broadcast, e.g. television programme

Title. Year. Type of media. Originator (e.g. channel). Exact date and time of broadcast.

For example:

The Culture Show. 2013. TV. BBC2. 13th March, 2200 hrs.

Live performance:

Choreographer. Year of premiere. Title in italics. Company (optional). [Location. Date seen].

For example:

Ashton, F. 1948. Cinderella. [Royal Opera House, London. 13 January 2004].

Newspaper articles:

1)    Printed:

Surname, Initial(s). Title of article. Title of newspaper, day and month of article, page number.

For example:

Rae, B. 2008. Mozart dances at Civic Theatre. The New Zealand Herald, 25 August, 11.

2)    Electronic:

Surname, Initial(s). Year of publication. Title of Article. Title of Newspaper in italics [online]. Day and month of article. Page number of article - if applicable. Available from: URL of database supplier [accessed date].

For example:

Dickson, Andrew. 2011. Immersive Theatre: It Was a Ghost in the Library with a Violin. The Guardian [online]. 4 July, 14. Available from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jul/04/immersive-theatre [accessed 2 January 2012].

Internet References

Electronic references should contain the following elements:

Surname, initial(s) of author (if known). Date. Title of document [Type of resource, i.e. Online]. Organisation responsible (optional). Available from: Title of Website [accessed date].

For example:

With author:

Cvejic, B. 2010. Xavier Le Roy: The Dissenting Choreography of One Frenchman Less. Available from:

http://www.xavierleroy.com/page.php?id=4b530eff077090c4cdd558852f04f24fb0840bae&lg=en [accessed 28 July 2013].

Without author:

BBC News. 2008. Factory gloom worst since 1980 [online]. Available from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7681569.stm [accessed 10 June 2012].

Note: Dates are not always available for web pages. If this is so use (n.d.) to represent no date so that the reader knows you have omitted this element. In the in-text quotation, please reference as follows: Cvejic, 2010 (first example); BBC News, 2008 (second example).

Students should only use internet references when no other possibility for gaining this information exists. This is sometimes the case with current dance performances or choreographers. Dance students are not allowed to use Wikipedia or quotation websites for their assignments. They frequently provide incorrect and plagiarised information or quotations taken out of context which are not a means to find relevant academic information. 

Other source material may be listed e.g. ‘Interviews’; there are no definitive guidelines for the presentation of these, but please give as much information as possible. For interviews give the name and role of person you interviewed, date and place of interview.

2)            In-text quotations

References should follow the Harvard style whereby references are cited in the text as (author, date: page) with full details in the bibliography at the end of the article. As a rule, page numbers should also be present unless the quotation refers to a very general argument or idea. Quotations of three lines or more should be indented in a separate paragraph. Please note that in-text quotations do not include the initial(s) of the author, but initial(s) should be stated in the bibliography.

Examples

Direct quotations:

- Phillips (2002: 43) noted that ‘contemporary dance in New Zealand is evolving rapidly’.         

- ‘Contemporary dance in New Zealand is evolving rapidly’ (Phillips, 2002: 43).

If author is not known:       

- This was obviously not the case before 2001 (Beating the Millenium Bug, 2003: 14)

- In Beating the Millenium Bug (2001: 14), it is claimed that this was not the case before 2001.

Secondary sources:                                                                                                          
- Smith (cited in Martin, 1991: 152) stated that one medium can be used in many different ways.                                                                                                                     
- One medium can be used in many different ways (Smith, cited in Martin, 1991: 52). 

Indirect quotations/paraphrasing a passage from a text:                                                                                                                            

- As the economy heated up, the government support for the arts cooled down (Horosko, 2002).                   

- Horosko states that as the economy heated up, the government support for the arts cooled down (2002).

When paraphrasing, you need to state the page number as if it were a direct quotation. If paraphrasing an argument that extends over several pages, you need to state this page range in full (e.g. 58-61). In the above example we can assume that this is an online source as there is no page number stated.

Drafts...

Looking forward to speaking to you all tomorrow (11am Skype), in the meantime just to offer you an alternative email to contact me on if you're trying to send me drafts of your work at the moment, as my mdx email is playing up.

Please send anything you want me to look at to:
helen.kindred@talk21.com

until further notice.

thanks!