Oral Presentation

I cant quite believe it has been over a week already since submitting the critical review and artefact. I decided to give myself sometime to refocus and reflect further on my learning from BAPP before planning and preparing for my Oral presentation next week. 

Over the past few weeks within my practice we have had two oral presentations given from external practitioners with regards to GDPR and health and safety instead of being disengaged from these I decided to use the opportunity to connect, relate and reflect these to my BAPP course, recognising what I felt worked and didn't work within these in terms of an oral presentation. Thus incorporating some tips to remind myself for creating and presenting my oral presentation:

• Introduce myself - allows the audience to connect on a  deeper level if they feel they know who you are and what your about
• Not too many words on the power point presentation- just key words- audience gets lost or distracted with reading 
• Make the powerpoint visual – coloured texts, diagrams, images, videos 
• No notes in hands
• Audience participation- ask them questions, game/quiz, ask for examples related to their practice 
• Use of humour
• Give examples and stories 
• Show passion, enthusiasm and knowledge on the topic 

So here goes for the last leg. Looking forward to meeting some of you next week. 

Creating my Artefact

For a while I struggled to get my head around the concept of the artefact and to come up with an idea.
but the past few days I have been working on my piece. I have decided to go with an audio-visual video using creative ways to show my findings (including some of my GCSE art work - which has been fun to look back on)

I have just had a moment of reflection on this process for me and realising that I struggled to get started because I didn't have a solid idea, I was scared to step out of my comfort zone,  perhaps didn't trust myself to be creative and let loose. But since starting I cant stop the ball rolling,  more ideas keep flowing, and I'm enjoying the process.

Often starting is the hardest bit to do from then it get easier, let that be a reminder for the last few days as we work on our final pieces.

(Lauren Harper, GCSE Art piece, 2006)

I feel this is a good representation of trusting in the journey because you will reach the final pointe (pardon the pun) no matter what, buts its the what you went through to get it to it that matters.

Best wishes for the last few days.

Lauren x

Final skype

Oral Presentation:

Not chronological order- think of it as a birds eye view of the whole inquiry. 

Could you use voice notes with flashes of key words

1. Theories are the back of the inquiry- have them at the start

"Quotes from literature- interviews"

Speech bubbles for personal reflections or thoughts

Oral presentation/Critical review and artefact are all different languages for communicating the inquiry !

Remember less is more!

Skype 17/4/18

Artefact: A creative way to share your journey of the inquiry. Should reflect the feel, nature and language of your practice. Represent and explore you as an artist.

The purpose is for the BA- don't develop this strand that it becomes something else!

Doesn't just show the findings.


Oral Presentation: Chance to talk about the inquiry- be able to speak and share what you have done.

Critical thinking point: asking yourself where and how do I want to use this information found from the inquiry in my practice and how will I implement it?

Finding themes

This week I have been analysing my data. As I have chosen to look at both mainstream and special educational needs schools I decided to compare the two in terms of findings from literature and interviews:

Some of the main themes that are occurring:

What actually is art?

What should constitute as art in education?

Art as a teaching methodology

Interdisciplinary- Cross curriculum approach

Innate creativity and imagination

Develop the "whole child"

Provide a Cultural Education

Gain art appreciation

What is art?

In the bid to take a break from studies today I went to the cinema to see the Greatest Showman (for a second time!). How wrong could I be that it would be a break and to help switch of from my inquiry. Instead the whole way through I kept relating, questioning, wondering in terms of my inquiry and practice.

One of my main findings within my inquiry is how it is hard to define/classify what art is and how it means something different everyone. In one of the final scenes the theatre critic says to PT Barnum he wouldn't class his show as art. I was surprised at this and made me question why. Ask yourself now how would you define art? what do you see as art? and why? what makes it art?  (oh and if you've seen the movie go see it!)