Individual consultations

Today I met with some students who weren't here last week. I explained how we were going to approach things from now on and everyone seemed happy enough about that.

Everyone should now have a copy of the Individual Learning Schedule (I gave that out last week). This may, like the best things in life, be a bit organic - ie. the details on specific tasks may change as we go. For example, you'll see from your schedule that I have put in a discussion on photographers for the 1 April. However, having talked to folk over the last couple of weeks, I might change the focus of that discussion a bit and instead focus it more on what you need to do for your presentation and your written evaluation. This seems to be the things that folk are concerned about. A discussion is a good platform to work some of these things out.

Most folk have now done a short talk on a source of information. Some have submitted their written evaluation on that. I am presuming that others are working on the second evaluation of a source. I asked everyone, for this second piece, to follow the sample one that I did on the extract from the Ansel Adams entry on Wikipedia. The main thing is that you focus on a text, or extract from a text, that can be summarised down to about a quarter or third of its length (around 200/300 words). That means that the original needs to be in the region of 800 to 1200 words.

Hope all of this makes sense. Again, there are links on the side to Skillswise which is a useful resource on various reading and writing skills including summarising. If you have any queries, get in touch. I'll see some of you next week and all of you the week after.