Hannah lees BAPP

  After attending yesterday’s Skype with Peter. I learnt a lot of useful techniques and resources to use for my academic writing.  The key part I have found while doing the BAPP course is, organising, I can find all the information, quotes, principles, books and so on, about the topic. However I find that then getting all my information structuring it into correct sections and where it all needs to go, what is important and what could be left out is the hard part to do.  Peter talked about a few tips. The first, which is what I’m going to attempt to use while writing my literature review and possibly also my proposal too is... writing backwards. By this he meant starting from the exact point I want to talk about. So for me this will be along the lines of “creative and performing arts for children with ASD.” After this I will then look at what I have to broaden the topic of discussion, question myself with what can be linked with it and work backwards, that way I will fina...

I joined in on this Module 1 skype discussion. Since having a widened practice now. I thought it would be good to do a few skypes to look at module 1 with an open mind to my practice now.  I have already talked about my practice now in a previous blog.  In this skype I found we talked mainly about web 2.0 and I found myself thinking of it from a teachers point of view instead of a performer automictically. Topics mentioned where social media, before I thought of it purely from a selfish point, where it benefited me, how amazing it was for me to expand my platform. Now I thought back to the documentary I watched "The Social Dilemma" (also wrote a blog about) about how bad it is for children and what they are exposed to now. This starts to link in with the ethics behind it; Should children be able to access this, is it worth the mental health of them, plus more questions. However it isn't all bad and can be used for a platform for performers, helping them feel connected as ...

The main topic discussed on Fridays skype call was "what is research?" it brought a lot of questions to ourselves including;  different kinds of research, are we researching correctly, looking at it differently, do we gain knowledge and research just by being in our practice, do we gain by repetition? I wanted to start at looking expanding my techniques of researching, so used the most common way of doing this. The readily available use of the internet. (the first and most obvious technique.) By researching through the internet we can find a lot of information about what we want find out specifically. I found that this leads us to be biased on what we are research in some cases. As we have to search exactly what we want to find to get it. Research from experience. I find the best way for me to gain knowledge and understanding being a very practical person. Is by doing it. Being in practice, asking questions to more experienced practitioners and learning from mistakes. By doin...

After recently watching the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma (Director Jeff Orlowski, 2020), recommended to us by our course leader. I found myself shocked by the statistics and ethnical discussions involved within social media, and how some of the founders of the social media industry are scared of what they have helped discover and make. Working along with vulnerable childr en and teenagers, a large majority involved with "healthy young minds" safety online is a key emphasis on my practice and there are a number of tactics we have in place to help limit the amount of online access they have. Including; an E-safety award. Meaning they are unable to use any form of internet in school without the award, including personal mobile phones. Screen watch, allowing teachers and teaching assistants to see exactly what the student is on, to name a few. The a mount of SEN children who struggle with their mental health is already high. They are more "likely to experience me...

After my conversations this past weeks with both Helen and Adesola. I have realised I need to look at myself, not changing my practice but broadening it. Something that lot of artists have had to do during the pandemic.  Helen suggested that I should create a map of my practice now. I have found this really mind opening, since I am focusing on such different people and work environment its nice to have it down on one place. So I can focus on myself and my practice and not other work colleagues places in work as well. I am sure I will find more things in conjunction to my practice as I continue but right now I have a mind map of the things I am currently doing in in my job Using this I can keep referring back to it and re-evaluating where and what I am doing with my module 2 proposal.

I was involved in the welcome skype on Saturday at 3pm. It was mix of new and old students and was nice to get to talk to everyone again and get back into the way of thinking for the BAPP. We first had a little run through and reminder on where to find everything we need on UniHub. This was really good for me as I almost had forgotten how much additional information is there. Especially now I am heading further into the course and going to be using yet more resources.  We talked about to think of the support for this course like 3 pillars.     Firstly the UniHub. Where once we are on the page, we can find any additional information that we need, through clicking on the dropdown sections that are there.  Secondly, using the BAPP community. This I did fairly often last module and found it very useful and supportive. The course has a Facebook page we can ask each other questions, advice and anything else we want to know. Last module I also had a skype with a few ot...

Lockdown has been a huge eye opener for me, along with many other people. It has given me alot of time to think about where I want to go next with my career, dancing and past dancing. I started this degree almost knowing I had maybe 3-5 years left performing, maybe more. Knowing I could possibly slip straight into another job i want to do when the time came, unknowing to when that was. However I didn't think the time would come this soon. After so much thought, tears and many sleepless nights. I have made the hardest decision ever, to hang up my dancing shoes, for now!! And focus on another one of my passions. A few weeks ago, very last minute, I applied for a job as a teaching assistant in a special needs school that specialises in autism and helping children and young adults adapting to live an amazing life. I didn't think much would have come of it. I wasn't qualified, other than my dance teaching qualifications and many many hours of voluntary work I have done over...