M3 Online session - 25/2/16

Last night I joined an online session in the Breeze meeting room with Paula, Ellie, Jess, Lara and Tom.

We discussed a few main points and how to get back into study. Paula said that sending your course advisor an update after your feedback from the last module is important. It gives you somewhere to start and gives you a good indication of where you are. We talked about ways of organising our time for this module. Paula gave examples of different diagrams - timelines etc that should what needs to be done when. We did acknowledge that things will overlap, a lot will be going on at once.

One suggestion was establishing Action Points - You could then discuss these with your advisor and your fellow BAPPers. Some of my action points  that I established from my feedback update were:

Action: To review research literature on the reading lists - Costley et al. 
Action: Organise informed consent forms
Action: Keep up with blog comments and SIGs
Action: Prepare interview questions.

 And of course the list goes on and will have to be constantly updated.

We also talked about ensuring we talk with our fellow BAPPers to develop our thinking and question one another. I find that I can often have something on my to do list for a while. If someone then questions me about it I then feel I have to get in done in order to maybe reply appropriately to a blog comment. This really helps to push you along.

We also talked a bit about what we think an in inquiry actually is. Some of the ideas that were mentioned were:

Important for your professional practise - basis for further study (PGCE, MA)

Beneficial to yourself and others - workplace & peers.

Research -insight into what you do - insider researched

Shift of focus in the workplace - connects with others - articulating what you do.

To support the ideas in our research we will need some good literature sources. Paula suggested 10-20 sources. Reviewing literature is to enable us to find expertise and ideas to inform your thinking. Reviewing separate sources but bringing the ideas together. Compare the different sources. Find out if there is a debate going on and if so where do you fall in that?