Post Result Reflection
The final result - 80.
Assessment results are in and the dust is settling. I feel confused, happy, deflated all at the same time which may seem odd. I believe the confusion is coming from the final mark 80…..really? I self predicated a score of 50-55 I got it completely wrong. I think I have been so wrapped up in chasing the idea of being right and thinking every I was doing was somehow wrong. I even named my learning log “What if I am Wrong” before I had started any of the work. I didn’t know if undertaking this degree was the right thing for me, I am not academic at all - I hated education. I didn’t know if the work I would produce would be right and what if this journey was all wrong. So I took the chance because what if it was right.
It turns out there is no right or wrong there is just me, the score doesn’t confirm right or wrong, good or bad. The penny has dropped the score is a scale of me-ness and how well I have presented myself and the things that truly engage me via the photograph. Work first and look later, the work should be placed in front of the research, the research helps inform the work and the response. I have thought that maybe I have done things all wrong but I have always felt that if I could stand up and justify the work and approach that was the most important thing to me even if I had got it all wrong.
The feedback and the result has raised some big questions, I thought I needed to make huge changes and in fact the changes that may be needed are small and that small changes are probably much more effective. Much of my frustration I think has be caused by the desire to know everything, to do everything right and for everything to work, this is not possible. I thought I was doing the wrong thing by not reading books cover to cover or following the reading list or studying the listed photographers. Small and often is better.
So moving forward into Context and Narrative revised feedback feed forward
Ruminating leads to lost time - If this is beginning to happen put the work down, move on to something else and return at a later date.
Introversion is my greatest strength but also my greatest weakness - I need to focus on application of my self reflective practice so that I can develop and evolve. Stop kicking myself.
I need to include tutor feedback in my reflective practice
Continue to look within myself for responses to assignments avoid natural comfort zones and quick fix routes.
Continue to work first then research after to help inform it.
Continue researching in a considered and relative fashion.
Continue to use the learning log format I have used for EVY make a few adjustment
Condense the learning log sections
Reduce the number of clicks
Ensure that assignment visual work is seen first followed by the written work.
The photograph is more important than the written.
I need to take more ownership of exercises which may help with constructing idea formation
Summarize and be concise. Bite size information is more effective
Continue to take ownership of the course
Continue to use the OCA Forum
Continue to ask question
Prepare for assessment continuously throughout the year - Do not leave it until a few weeks before assessment.
The next unit is a system reset to zero, next target is to get 40% mark a pass anything over this is a positive result.
The final result - 80.
Assessment results are in and the dust is settling. I feel confused, happy, deflated all at the same time which may seem odd. I believe the confusion is coming from the final mark 80…..really? I self predicated a score of 50-55 I got it completely wrong. I think I have been so wrapped up in chasing the idea of being right and thinking every I was doing was somehow wrong. I even named my learning log “What if I am Wrong” before I had started any of the work. I didn’t know if undertaking this degree was the right thing for me, I am not academic at all - I hated education. I didn’t know if the work I would produce would be right and what if this journey was all wrong. So I took the chance because what if it was right.
It turns out there is no right or wrong there is just me, the score doesn’t confirm right or wrong, good or bad. The penny has dropped the score is a scale of me-ness and how well I have presented myself and the things that truly engage me via the photograph. Work first and look later, the work should be placed in front of the research, the research helps inform the work and the response. I have thought that maybe I have done things all wrong but I have always felt that if I could stand up and justify the work and approach that was the most important thing to me even if I had got it all wrong.
The feedback and the result has raised some big questions, I thought I needed to make huge changes and in fact the changes that may be needed are small and that small changes are probably much more effective. Much of my frustration I think has be caused by the desire to know everything, to do everything right and for everything to work, this is not possible. I thought I was doing the wrong thing by not reading books cover to cover or following the reading list or studying the listed photographers. Small and often is better.
So moving forward into Context and Narrative revised feedback feed forward
Ruminating leads to lost time - If this is beginning to happen put the work down, move on to something else and return at a later date.
Introversion is my greatest strength but also my greatest weakness - I need to focus on application of my self reflective practice so that I can develop and evolve. Stop kicking myself.
I need to include tutor feedback in my reflective practice
Continue to look within myself for responses to assignments avoid natural comfort zones and quick fix routes.
Continue to work first then research after to help inform it.
Continue researching in a considered and relative fashion.
Continue to use the learning log format I have used for EVY make a few adjustment
Condense the learning log sections
Reduce the number of clicks
Ensure that assignment visual work is seen first followed by the written work.
The photograph is more important than the written.
I need to take more ownership of exercises which may help with constructing idea formation
Summarize and be concise. Bite size information is more effective
Continue to take ownership of the course
Continue to use the OCA Forum
Continue to ask question
Prepare for assessment continuously throughout the year - Do not leave it until a few weeks before assessment.
The next unit is a system reset to zero, next target is to get 40% mark a pass anything over this is a positive result.