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Video Method
This is an extract from a collective ‘direct animation’. This was drawn on 16mm found and clear reels with Sharpies, and iron filings and scratched with a nail. I now have 2 more reels clean reels which will be digitally processed by On8mil.com so I can explore the potentialisties of mixing analogue and digital. I […]
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Diffractive Analysis: Embodied Encounters in Contemporary Artistic Video Practice
Amba Sayal-Bennett This is a really useful paper for methodology and methods. The Bibliography at the end is useful guidance for the future: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/29/diffractive-analysis
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-Teaching Update-
Over the past month I have been tutoring a younger student. This has made for a refreshing change from secondary teaching and a pleasant counterpoint to academia. Although saying this, I do enjoy both of the above… We have gone back to basics and covered: Simple sentence construction;vocabulary expansion; using adverbs and adjectives within simple […]
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~Design Museum~
We visited The Design Museum. This was my Christmas present. The exhibition was ‘Electronic – From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers. ‘ My personal highlights were 2 installments. The first was the Aphex Twin videography section. This included the video for Collapse. This was inspired by scenes of Cornwall as seen by a hallucinating cyborg. […]
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~Mini Ethnography~
Location Shrewsbury Library My forced comfort zone would be to conduct a planned and well-structured study with well articulated questions and a concrete set structure. This would merely be to ensure I did it ‘right’. This is not really my authentic way of working as I find intuition more preferable and this allows thinking to […]
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~MA in Education complete ~
Milestone. Dissertation submitted.
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~ Research Process Visualisation~
We were asked to visualise the research process. This task is engaging as it is open to interpretation. Everyone in the grouped shared a very distinct visualisation and these ranged across how they were presented. Whilst I recognise that there is importance in presenting information using linear models and diagrammatic boxes for the purpose of […]
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Apps for Study #1:Time Timer
Like many people who study, I find myself oscillating between being either completely lost in the realms of time , or completely frozen struggling to muster motivation to start. I’m not really into the constant rhetoric of productivity, but there is no shame in using an external tool to help you get on with something […]
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-Draft Submitted-
I submitted a draft of my dissertation! The title is ‘Moving Towards Inclusive Pedagogies for Learners with ADHD’. It feels like a long time since I started it in October 2019. I’m already over the word count, and way ahead of the deadline in October. I’m looking forward to taking a step back from it […]