Week 11: RealWORKS

The topic of this week was to exploring the Falmouth University employability service – Real WORKS – and thinking about my personal brand and how that may align with my studies and future aspirations. I completed some of the exercises and as I am already in an established career in the industry I decided toContinue reading “Week 11: RealWORKS”

Week 9: Communities of Practice

The concept of Communities of Practice was first developed as a social learning theory by a working group at the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL), reviewing the development of learning of apprentices during their Apprenticeships. It was observed that learning interactions were more frequent between apprentices and their peers, than the apprentice and theContinue reading “Week 9: Communities of Practice”

Week 7/8: Activity 5: Rapid Ideation #2

Our second Rapid Ideation sprint was focussed on the theme of Re-make, Re-model. After some discussion with my tutors, I decided to re-make my artefact from the first rapid ideation sprint in Unity. I took the approach of a small ‘hurting’ project in order to start learning to use a new tool and support the followingContinue reading “Week 7/8: Activity 5: Rapid Ideation #2”

Week 5/6: Activity 4: Rapid Ideation #1

Week 4 and 5 are dedicated to our first rapid ideation sprint. The goal is to produce an interactive artefact within the timeframe, to a loose theme set by a visual creative prompt. As a prompt, we were given a card from the game Dixit, showing a dragon and a figure holding a sword. AfterContinue reading “Week 5/6: Activity 4: Rapid Ideation #1”

Week 5: Critical Reflection and SMART Goals

This week we were tasked with reviewing our critical reflection thus far and improving upon it using the framework of the five reflective domains (Parker, 2021): Dispositional domain – Time management, motivation, general behaviour and discipline Affective domain – Feelings, experiences and emotions Interpersonal domain – Interacting with others, Verbal/Non-verbal communication, listening negotiating, problem-solving, decision-makingContinue reading “Week 5: Critical Reflection and SMART Goals”

Week 4: Time and Project Management

This week we are exploring ‘Time and Project Management’ alongside the start of our first rapid ideation sprint. A timely topic indeed with more competing priorities coming my way! As time is short, I have decided to limit my research to improving my own practice and considering how it might apply to my career. IContinue reading “Week 4: Time and Project Management”

Week 3: Rapid Ideation

This week’s topic is Rapid Ideation. The term Rapid Ideation refers to the development of a working prototype in a limited time. Inspiration may be drawn from many places, including existing media where it may be remediated upon – inspired by and improved – or hypermediated upon – building on limited ideas through creative contradictionContinue reading “Week 3: Rapid Ideation”

Week 1: Learning to reflect critically

I have never written in this format or style before, so to kick-off my work this year I decided to do some reading in order to develop my critical reflection skills. I started with Practicing Critical Reflection: A Resource Handbook by Jan Fook and Fiona Gardner. In addition to providing useful tools and frameworks, itContinue reading “Week 1: Learning to reflect critically”