Day: October 2, 2017

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what you need to prepare for weeks 11 & 12

Hi everyone,

Only a few sessions left to go and quite a bit to do.

Votes are in and the title of our final publication is More Than Stars. Nat has worked up a great spreadsheet so that we can keep track of content for the website. It’s in the shared studio drive, file name “MTS Content Tracker”. Could everyone please enter the pieces they would be happy contributing to the website into this spreadsheet ASAP. The idea was to use the article you “pitched”, but I know some people’s ideas have changed — and that’s ok. You’re also encouraged to add more than one each, so that we can look at the overall spread and avoid having too many pieces on similar topics. We will spend the final class on Wednesday morning next week locking down what everyone is submitting and making sure the shape of the site and spread of work looks good overall. You will need to submit the pieces we decide on for the website by Thursday 19/10 (one week before the presentation, so that the website team have time to load everything up).

Please also note that next Monday (9/10) we have set aside time to record everyone reading some of their own work for the studio presentation. It is really important that you come to class so that your work is represented in the final presentation.

What you need to prepare before next week:

  • enter the reviews you are happy to submit for our website (and associated info) into the MTS Content Tracker spreadsheet.
  • choose a paragraph (or two) you wrote this semester that you feel represents your best work. bring these to class on Monday, where the team putting together the presentation will make audio recordings of you reading.
  • read the reviews emailed for our final critique sessions

Due dates for everything can be found in the final weeks schedule

Alexia

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everyone’s a critic: week 10 update

by Cameo Pollock-Turner

Through our Wednesday session for week 10 Sam, Annie and Bradley shared all very different reviews with the class for us to give construction feedback for. This was a really effective way for us as the students to help others, but also get ideas for our own work about different styles and what we do and don’t like reading. This critical feedback was always given in a positive manner which is really important in these classes as it can be daunting giving your work for others to critique, but everyone was always supportive.

Throughout this session everyone slowly became more confident in commenting on others pieces, questioning points in the reviews for expansion and positive development. It made the room feel like a ‘safe house’ and everyone felt pretty comfortable blurting out possible ideas.

Alexia said in class “the formality drowns out your personality” which is extremely relevant to all students at university battling out essays. We tend to lose that personal opinion and it has been really great learning how to bring that back into our work through writing reviews.