Dancing to Balkan Music: ethnomusicology, cultural appropriation or cultural exchange?
One of the really engaging things about the research I have been undertaking is that it feels like I have reconnected with a passion that I had lost touch with.
The Writers Toolbox & Free Writing II
Another short writing exercise at this week’s writing group drawn from the Writers Tool Box.
The Writers Toolbox & Free Writing I
We usually kick off the writing sessions with a creative exercise followed by a little goal setting and brief discussion with partners. This aims to loosen up our creative ideas and to help us focus on what we are trying to do. then the rest of the day we just write. It is a joy let me tell you.
Exploring Street Art Paste Ups as Shamanic Totems
Second in a series of posts exploring research as creative practice.
Orinoco Flow and The Tale of the Southsea Onryō
How do you describe the start of a research journey that has multiple beginnings and no clear sense of an ending?
What might Research Informed Teaching (RIT) look like in media practice education?
A skewed and somewhat (REF)erential reading of the 2018 Media Practice and Education/MeCCSA Practice Network symposium.
Dwelling Story Development Workshop: rapid story development for student-led creative practice
Dwelling Story Development Workshop: rapid story development for student-led creative practice .
Using PADLET in class to promote inquiry and discussion around assessment briefs
We live in the age of the attention wars and if you want people to look at something then the best way to get them to look is to shout louder than anybody else.
This is a new post to test Pingbacks
Want to know more about pingbacks find out more here…
RISE to the challenge of dialogic feedback
It seems that students want more feedback but studies show they don’t read it or don’t understand it (McConlogue 2014, 1496). But that might largely be down to the monologic, transmission model tutors use for giving feedback. If we want students to increase their uptake of feedback then we need to encourage them to proactively engage with the feedback.