and 2 weeks later..!

Figure 1. Radian Map Learning Plan 2012

im back...I blame time as always! so whats new?? had an interesting online session with SE today..he discussed with some useful points regarding reflective practice..which as a result of that session I produced an updated radiant map (see fig 1)
file:///F:/HARD%20DRIVE%20FOLDER/Learning%20plan%202012.html Ive proberly lgone over board with this, but I need to see as a whole where I am now...alot has changed since last RM 2011..which thinking about I shall add in now...having problems uploading?? will have to try later.
Quite simply what Ive covered here is current teaching practice which has grown in a big way having now taken on the role as curriculum leader. Skills to develop stay the same, except I have added in time based media...need to do more in this area, that is film (there is a teaching and learning conference coming up shortly 23rd feb) I am putting on a research forum which requires those in receipt of research to present their work (abstract) for 2 minutes (I will use here speed dating as a metaphor to describe this forum in simply language, but of course not to those taking part!!) anyway the plan is to get consent from individuals and film the 45 minute session (I am also taking part) I think overall this will be good to gain evidence for RP... back up plan if I can't film will be to bring along a dictaphone I shall also do some drawings.
Ok referring back to RM I have put in an updated reading list, these are papers and books on photography, film, apparatus i.e. the lens, narrative and communication studies etc..I shall come back to some reading later...Ive made some notes on current development I dont think there is anything else I wish to add...proffessional / personal outcomes stay the same...that is, I want to write and publish papers, work more in the area of research and cut down on teaching (I really dislike the idea of being old and still teaching whatever with a crooked mouth and glazed over eyes because I was to vain to wear glasses..ha ha)

Figure 1. Reflective practice model

Seen on the left here (fig 1) SE explained to us a typical reflective cycle...this is what I plan to do next, that is, to establish as I quote from todays recording SE states;...'this is about identifying whats changing in your perception and why this is happening, and acting on new situation'...he continues...'in terms of evidence you are collecting for de0935, you could ask yourself...how does it support the development of my awareness' ??
I hope to have this in place for next posting...
ok this week I read a chapter on the 'Ways of Remembering' by John Berger, it is a selected essay published in a book called Camerawork, what I interesting was that Berger argues that in (p40) 'real life (the routines of everyday experiences) meaning is discovered in what connects, for it cannot connect without development'...'to interpret a picture is to lend it to past and future, to put it into a narrative'. 'The narrative form in which photography can employ is memory, a field in which different times coexist because memory as an aspect of unconscious life, does not conform to a linear conception of time in which, eg. the modern suspence story is constructed'. He states that before photography (if we did not look at it from a technical point of view i.e. painting, engravings drawings etc..) there was only memory. the photograph is a footprint that leaves a trace of that particular event, the camera like the eye records appearences through the mediation of light, however, the camera unlike the eye, fixes the set of appearences, where as the appearneces recorded by the eye are constantly changing.

Recorded time and space is a question of process in which lies a narrative, new meaning taken from the process of telling/showing..this playing out becomes a shared act...?? the performer takes on the role of the interactive object of visual representation and plesure, the viewer however takes on the role as the interpassive client, he/she is independent on the process being performed, and will only take from it what is required to understand and form new meaning???