Group 3 Campus Session Nov 9 2011

Task 1B

Web 2.0:

I believe that Web 2.0 is a tool in which society should use and take advantage of in both the work place and socially. We are given the chance to use our voice and freedom of speech is granted at any given opportunity and with that luxury must come responsibility.

Web 2.0 is web-based community where our input isn’t screened or edited; we are the creator and the reader. Essentially we are the product.

As responsible adults (most age limits are 18+ on social networking sites) we must remember that what we say on these websites is never truly “deleted” and that the information, pictures and posts shared are then the property of the website to use in many cases for 3^rd party research.

In the reader it talks of trust. That we have to put a trust into the creator, for example Wikipedia.. We have to trust that the author of the text you are reading had a level of knowledge on the chosen field.  I also believe that we need trust in our readers, that they don’t abuse the information we are providing and “steal” pictures or text from us. The simplest way around this is to not post, blog or tweet anything that we would not expect to be copied, we need to use Web 2.0 as a tool to share our ideas and concepts.

The reader comments on the architecture of participation commenting that the more people who participate the more effective the website, I agree with this, and it also the same on our blogs; the more we participate and share our ideas the more we will gain.  The same applies that the information or data should be constantly evolving to make it of interest. We can define our audience and our reading by our own choices, interests and style.

I feel that Web 2.0 is particularly helpful to those of us who are interested or want a career in the Arts, as we are the consumer and the producer and this gives us a platform to show the world our creativity and send our message out to a huge audience.

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The piece of writing I published previously is a prime example of quality over quantity. I developed this paragraph in the creative writing session. It was originally 2 pages long! It pretty much said what I have said underneath just in a longer way with irrelevant examples and unnecessary explanations. I will keep this in mind when it comes to writing my essays and blogging. 

By shortening our writing we can get the point across easier and quicker without boring the reader or repeating ourselves. 

Quality or Quantity revisited.

It is expected of us in our writing to achieve a high level of quality, picking out relevant information and using our knowledge in a concise way. We can use our blogs as a tool, a tool in which quantity is encouraged in order to achieve quality for our final pieces of writing.

Task 1a continued....

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1BxVA--3pKFhKsyebX-KcV939WqGIOFxQGf3OAvzHvvI

Here is my combined experience CV (my first google docs attempt, fingers crossed)

Task 1a

I thought i'd post my biography that is used at one of the schools I teach at, it talks about my past performing, casting and teaching experience so it could be used as a base for different jobs.... I queried on a previous post what to include on my CV but this is an example of how you can combine experiences to make your biography/personal statement stronger.

Nina Louise Standen

Nina started training at the age of 8 at the Liz Burville Dance centre in Bexley. What started of as just a hobby quickly changed into a lifetime passion and career choice. Nina trained in many forms of dance, drama and singing and completed her I.S.T.D and L.A.M.D.A qualifications aswell as her G.C.S.E’s in Drama and Dance at school. Alongside this she performed in Pantomime’s in The Orchard Theatre, Performed in the Parades in Eurodisney and toured in a cabaret group most weekends. At the age of 15 knowing that this is what she wanted to pursue she auditioned for London College’s and was lucky enough to be granted a full time Scholarship to The Urdang Academy in Central London where her training continued till she was 19 and was awarded a Diploma in Musical Theatre. Whilst at college she performed in many London theatres and was in the Advanced acting Group. After leaving college Nina performed on a cruise ship for 2 years travelling the world and gaining the experience, which eventually landed her the role of company manager. After 2 years Nina felt it was time to return to solid ground and decided to continue her studies and is now topping up her diploma to a BA Honours degree in Professional Arts. Since returning Nina has performed In the Camden People’s theatre in a professional Actors showcase and interned with Casting Directors around London to learn about Casting and auditions in London’s west end including New productions for Andrew Lloyd Webber. All of this has helped Nina to develop a wide range of experience which she hopes she can pass on to all students and she hopes that they learn to love acting as much as she does!

1st Day back at Campus.

So I returned to campus with  fresh head last week, and am positive and looking forward to blogging and sharing with fellow BAPPers...
The main objective of the session seemed to be working out what the course would do for each of us individually. To use our past as an energy to push us forward to reach our goals, the imagery of a rocket was used and we thought about the idea of adding "wings" to broaden our experience and knowledge. My group tried to draw a diagram that would show a way in which all our knowledge was entangled and we could learn from each other even if we were aiming for a different goal. The idea of a tube map was put forward by Hannah which I thought was good imagery as we can jump off at any point in our career just like a tube stop and then jump back on and head in a different direction. We can spend any length of time on our journey and it could be simple or complex with many changes.