Developing your Support Network (for whatever stage you are at)

As I have been looking through the Blogs I am struck by some good examples of how students on BAPP Arts are supporting each other, commenting to each other’s Blogs, make good observations and giving sound advice. For me this simply reflects good practice in any professional field. Professional work is largely carried out collaboratively, and professional practice is largely conducted through the engagement with, and use of, our professional networks. It is a key professional attribute.

While there are lots of good examples of professional-level interaction (e.g. commenting) I though Liam’s post on his YouTube video serves as an excellent example. One of the reasons for the large number of comments on Liam’s Blog is that fact that he is out there commenting on others people Blogs – giving time to others through your comments are both a learning opportunity (in reflection, analysis and evaluation) as well as a benefit on terms of lots of useful feedback from others. My advice … emulate this practice.

I picked on Liam as an example, but there are lots of great commentators out there, go find them, link to them, comment on their Blogs, share, contribute and benefit!

Welcome to students in Germany

We are being joined by Nathalia and Liubov who are designers living and working in Germany. Hi to you both. I am looking forward to you enriching the network of staff and students and bringing your visual skills as well. Many of the students on BAPP are specialist in dance, musical theatre acting and education but some also have a media or design backgrounds so I hope you find interesting and useful connections within the group, and to their own networks.