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Helpful Things...

Hello again,

 Aren't you lucky, my 3rd blog in a few days! 

 Well, this is a quick simple one for those of you on the BAPP arts course (also for those who aren't!) but I have found a few helpful things that I thought I would share with you all. 

 The first,we have reached part 2 of our course which as you will know is all about reflective writing. We have all been asked to keep a journal. However if you are anything like me, life can seem to get very busy so finding the time to write in your journal can be a bit difficult. Especially as I have to carry a lot around with me most of the time so adding an extra book equals even more weight! Therefore I have found a easy, free online site which you can keep journals on, and there is even an app for your phone. I am using this for my 'on-the-go' journal as it is quick and easy and then writing up my proper journal of an evening to make sure I don't miss anything! 
The site/app is called Penzu, the link is here:
https://penzu.com/


The second, is a book: 

Now I have only just started skim reading through this book, but it has been so helpful already! It has a whole section on 'The reflective journal', i.e. what we are looking at now, plus so many other things. I would definitely recommend this, even if you just borrow it from the library, as a reference it is great! 

The last one for now is another website. When discussing the next part of the BAPP arts course with Paula on skype, she mentioned 'Lifelong learning'. Now I hadn't heard this phrase before but it definitely intrigued me, so I thought I would look into it. I found this great website which has lots on the subject, but also a lot of other links to pages on learning as a whole, how we learn etc. Definitely worth going through and helping you discover ways of learning and how to implement them in your work. Here is the link:
http://www.skillsyouneed.com/learn/lifelong-learning.html

Please help yourselves to the links, and try to get hold of the book, it's really helping me, so maybe it could help you!

Hope your all doing well on the course, from what I can see on the blogs you are all doing fantastic! 

Chow for now! 

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  1. Unknown15 November 2016 at 06:03

    Thank for sharing all of that information Georgie, it is really interesting indeed!

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