ellis log week one: INTRODUCTION LESSON

Elli's log week one: INTRODUCTION LESSON
We started the lesson off by being introduced to the module by Ellie,
she told us that we would have to organise finding our placements on
our own as well as our time management, and I was quite anxious and
stressed because of this, she also gave us our module hand book papers,
and because of the fact that the papers were un clipped our first task,
was to organise the papers in order and successfully clip them together,
luckily we were all successful and after we had finished Ellie and
all of us read the handbook together.


I believe this would later help us on our organisational skills as
well as teaching us first hand to be self sufficient in a hands on approach,
this could be applied to hands on tasks that may come and go on the practical
side of the placement.


As we read the module handook we soon found out that the placement
would be negotiated by us, with communication of course with our
tutor Ellie, and a regional or national partner from the placement
being involved as well, as well this we would arrange our
placement, email the placement and organise the schedule of
when we would be working with that placement as well, also
we would document our process and were expected to lead
and conduct our own research for these placements and
our documentation.


In relation to what I had learned from this lesson this was important because it put into perspective how much of the placement was on us it also helped me realise that documentation of the entire module was key to my study and would help me later down the line.


As well as this we were expected to be attending all lessons
so as to document the happenings in each of them and possibly
apply what we had learned into working on our placements and
our documentation of future work on those placments, our
learning outcomes included:"Have engaged with, and reflected upon,
a BA (Hons) Performance related work-based placment" "Be able
to document an understanding of the requirements and expectations
of the industry in terms of skills and standards" "Be able to
demonstrate concise and accurate communications skills both
verbally and in a written context" and "Be able to evaluate
concisely the enterprising knowledge you have developed and
identify your future learning needs".


In relation to our placements this meant we would have to have engaged and reflected whilsty working with our placements and regional contacts,as well this to engage and understanding of requirements and expectations of the industry could apply to email etiquette, turning up on time, keeping a professional attitude when working, keeping a steady work schedule and good time management, identifying future learning needs could also relate to ways I need to improve my study, how to further network with companies and practitioners, what is the best version of myself to present to a placement or on future work and just an over all knowledge of the big picture in the live art community as well as what work would be best for me after university and what kind of live art I would want to make.


After this we were given our Module Timetable
spanning from the week of January 29th to the week of
the 23rd of April when the module would finish, we were then
given our assessments which were 1.a weekly written
reflection of our experiences much like this log.
And 2.a critical evaluation of our experience on
our placement, we were given the assessment of
giving a verbal presentation, which would
require us to create and deliver a 10 minute presentation,
and answer questions based upon our learning experiences
on the module.


This would help my learning experience overall because a strength I have is with a more hands on approach of being able to communicate my ideas in person, rather than in text, just because of overall structure.


After finishing the module Handbook we were given the homework
of finding 3 placement suggestions and having to give reasons
for each of why we would want to work on those placements.