I finally managed to up-date the bibliography page with Sarah’s reference list from the Ayr workshop – also including Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword, my review of which you can read here.
Up-dated Bibliography Page
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stuff to check out
Two conferences that might be interesting
While going through the latest Design Research Society newsletter, I came across these two conference that might be interesting to check out…
Cumulus Dublin 2013 – more for less – design in an age of austerity
November 7-9 2014, Dublin, Ireland
(but call for papers ends on 21st June… yes, slightly extended- phew)
11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2014 – Learning and Becoming in Practice
June 23-27 2014, Boulder, Colorado
Call for paper ends 8th November (…phew some more time for that one)
Making the Textual Visual
Here something that found its way into my inbox… (Yes, I’m also speaking, please don’t let that turn you off…)
You are cordially invited to
“Making the textual visual”: Engaging visual learners with text.
Thursday 4th July 2013
Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University
“Making the textual visual” offers Academics, Librarians and Learning Developers an opportunity to share experience and practice. A look at ways of enabling visual and kinaesthetic learners to transcend the text barrier; engaging with text driven disciplines and skills in a visual and tactile way. The day offers the chance to:
- Experience visual and kinaesthetic learning techniques
- Hear about the student response and experience of such techniques,
- Consider the theoretical underpinning to this type of learning,
- Engage with Critical thinking activities
- Explore visually enabled reflection
- Group work to encourage putting these methods into practice
- A chance to network across disciplines, professions and institutions.
A day to consider the visual, kinaesthetic, multi-modal, reflective and more cerebral aspects of learning and engagement in a “freed up” expressive working space
This event is free of charge, refreshments and lunch are included.
Interested in attending ? Please book your place through this eventbrite link
Places are limited, a waiting list will be in operation.
Any queries , please contact Kaye Towlson (kbt@dmu.ac.uk). Please see Prog textual visual LLS logo for details of the full programme
WiCP: Towards Academic Writing – Programme Preview
We have been working hard on the programme for the workshop on July 2nd – here’s a preview: (There are still some places left, if you are interested, send an email to tactileacademia[at]gmail.com)
Programme
(as this is going to be a very hands-on workshop, this might change slightly)
10:00 Registration and Refreshments (Make your Own Nametag icebreaker)
10:30 Welcome
10:40 Writing Creative Practice / Material Thinking: towards academic publication.
(Introductory lecture: Nancy de Freitas)
11:40 Small group work part 1 – see ‘what to expect’ below.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Genre and Academic Writing
(Alke Groppel-Wegener)
14:45 Small group work part 2 – see ‘what to expect’ below.
15:30 Refreshments
15:45 Reporting back – see ‘what to expect’ below.
16:30 Summarising – see ‘what to expect’ below.
17:00 end
What to expect
· A lecture: to orient the session.
· Handouts: will be circulated at the workshop.
· Provocations: will be set for individual and small group work – tone of voice, audience, and shape.
· Small group work part 1: writing plans – structure/schema; writing abstracts with clarity and keywords.
· Small group work part 2: clarity of concept; image text intersections; concluding and making sense; fearless editing.
· Collegial critique: for personal growth and improvement.
· Role models: finding one.
· Reviewer perspective: sitting on the other side.
· Reporting back: group plenary discussion for sharing insights.
· Summarising: feedback session to take stock of what we need to do better.
What to bring
1. Bring your own laptop or iPad, etc. if possible.
2. Bring one of the following:
· An example of recent writing
· A full draft of a research paper in progress
· One completed draft of a previously published paper
· A title/idea for a new piece of research writing – a potential paper you are thinking about.
Hope to see you there!
Julia Midgley – Open Studio
You might remember me raving about the documentary drawing class I attended at the beginning of the year. Just to let you know that the lady who gave the workshop is having an open studio 25/26 May in Hartford, Cheshire. More info here
Presenting the Onion
I came across this via Twitter and thought some of you might be interested…
Presenting the Onion: a tool for discussing academic writing
A multiple intelligences approach to support brief writing for Textiles students
Through booking forthcoming events, I also get to catch up with people who came to previous workshops – and I of course always ask whether they were able to put anything into practice since then, or whether they went away inspired.
Well, today, Sara Eaglesfield got in touch. She was at the second workshop in Stoke last year, and says that
During the summer I created a series of workshops for our first year students which combined my multiple intelligences research with some collage-making-sticking ideas I’d picked up from our day in May (we have since got through incredible amounts of glitter).
And she also sent this Poster she made to disseminate her research, to share it with all you lovely blog readers. She is very interested in taking this research further, possibly in a collaboration, so if you think this looks interesting, please do get in touch with her at Sara.Eaglesfield[at]bucks.ac.uk
Thinking Dangerously in Teacher Education
If you liked the idea of the reflective walk, and the drawing, you might be interested in the Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Thinking Dangerously in Teacher Education? Walking, Drawing and Extending Sites for Learning at the Ayr campus of the University of the West of Scotland that is happening on June 18th.
Sketchbook Postal Exchange
Sue Challis sent this fascinating account of a sketchbook exchange she has had with Shaheen Ahmed and Mandy Mullowney.
Poem Houses
This week I stumbled across poem houses. There they were, waiting in an article in a journal that had been on my shelf for the better part of the year. And I had no idea until I pulled out a number of these journals to give to a student and idly flicked through them. Luckily said poem houses caught my eye and consequently that one journal issue didn’t make it to my student’s bag, but my own instead.
As explained in ‘Sense making through poem houses: an arts-based approach to understanding leadership’ by Louise Grisoni and Brigid Collins (Visual Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, March 2012, 35-47), poem houses have been developed by Brigid Collins as “three dimensional artefacts combining visual interpretation with poetic text and which hold a special significance for the maker.” (35) Using examples and testimonials from a workshop on leadership development, the article is a fascinating insight into using this format/genre as a focus for reflection. And of course I read this wondering how it could be applied in my learning and teaching. I will definitely try to make my own one of these days, but in the mean time, you can see some examples here.
I have also managed to find some more writing by both Collins and Grisoni, which might be more food for thought.
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