I think the most important thing to drive me is to have a deadline. I think I have been doing pretty well with the blog posts and the readings (despite only understanding it at a surface level) but there is always room to do more.
My goals to improve learning were:
Attend class – and actually ‘be there’ not just turn up.
Ask questions – either directly to Adrian, or reflective questions to myself.
Critique my work – and document this process
Reflect – Blog posts.
Do the readings and consolidate the knowledge.
To meet these goals, I should give some quantitative aspect to them.
Attending class remains pretty self explanatory. Come twice a week and properly listen.
Ask myself a question after each class – this can also be used to blog about. What is on my mind? etc. For it to contribute, it must manifest on paper or a blog (not just in my head)
Critique my work – blog about the practice and reflect on each assessment or stage of assessment.
Reflect – similarly, make sure that my reflective thinking is actually in written words.
Read the readings, and try come away with at least one thing new which I have learnt, and write it down.
blog every thing, every thought.