In The Window Placement - Beginning Evaluation and Extra Experience
I was hesitant to begin my evaluation or any reflective writing as I am yet to complete my placement due to the exhibition being postponed. However, I have experienced and achieved so much already and wanted to put the experience so far to use whilst I have the time; my placement is so close to being finished but it may be another month before I can exhibit my work 'In The Window'.
This week, instead of a lecture or seminar, we had the option of signing up for one-to-one tutorials with Anna Francis on Microsoft Teams. I booked a slot to discuss whether or not to begin writing my evaluation. I was concerned that if I began writing about what I had done so far that later down the line I would write about the exhibition separately and the overall evaluation would be disjointed or I might struggle with staying within the 1500 word word-count. At the same time, I did not want to waste this time and the potential opportunity to get ahead. Anna thought it would be a good idea to get started with so much of the placement completed and offered some advice for writing a partial evaluation which included leaving the conclusion til after the exhibition or rationing the word-count for now. She also reminded me that we would have further sign-up tutorials in which we could discuss drafts of the evaluation before submission and to make sure to ask Glen at AirSpace for feedback to include in the final draft.
We had some time remaining so we talked about my blog so far which will also be submitted for assessment and I asked whether or not to include some extra work experiences I had coming up. Anna said that any experience is worth mentioning so will be writing about it in this blog.
A local art project, the Portland Inn Project are currently running a series of challenges and tutorials virtually on social media which they are calling PIPTV. I have engaged with some of the streams already as I like to get involved with local art events wherever possible. Our lecturer from last semester Rebecca Davies is involved with PIP and PIPT, on her Instagram which I follow she asked for suggestions for tutorials, I messaged her with a few ideas which she liked and which then led further conversation and her asking whether or not I would be interested in doing a tutorial. The tutorials so far range from arts and crafts to comedy make-up tutorials and press up challenges, they are accessible and family friendly. I mentioned that I would need time to plan something art based but already have experience teaching circus skills from my career outside of university. We decided that this would be something different and interesting for PIPTV. I have yet to finalise what my tutorial will be, which has to be family friendly, inclusive and manageable in the home with limited to no equipment or household items but have some ideas already. I look forward to putting something together soon and exploring how to deliver a circus skills workshop virtually, as well as practicing my teaching skills and seeing how PIPTV promote their videos.
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