Answers were not what I was looking for. (Skpye Session 16.10.15)

Hi everyone,
I am back to share an experience that I just shared with a few other BAPP students.
It was great to meet and chat to people in the same position as me but scattered around the world. Unfortunately our breeze session was unsuccessful but we had a good old chat on Skype.

This has been the first time I have spoke with other people on the same course and now I wonder why I have not contacted them before now.  I was so nervous but Paula asked us all to introduce our selves and that really broke the ice and made me feel more at ease with speaking to complete strangers.

It is just helpful knowing that I am not the only one who is struggling with things and feeling a bit lost.  One of the questions I had jotted down to ask Paula was:

'how will I know if I am heading in the right direction as some times I feel as if I'm waffling and drifting away from the point I'm trying to make.' 

I learnt that there is no right or wrong way to go about what we are trying to achieve as all of us are individuals and will see and explore topics and tasks in very different ways.  We are on a journey trying to find what way works for us personally.  I think I felt I was waffling because I was so excited about this new way of sharing my thoughts and feelings, it was hard finding a way to start.  There are so many current topics that are affecting me in the work place that I want to share and discuss with others in the profession which leads to the next question I had for Paula:

"can we use our blogs to speak about other topics that are not tasks?"

I now know I can discuss anything at all as it will all add as experience and hopefully generate a wider audience and allow me to debate and discus matters that are affecting me as a professional. 
Relating back to Reader 1 - Remixable data and transformations, In my previous blog I struggled with what to write for this topic as I felt I had nothing that related to it.  I know understand more about this and it obviously relates to me in so many ways.  I think it was Lucy Calvert who asked "can you delete and edit your posts?"  Paula made it very clear that this is what we should be doing. Writing blogs, reading them back then editing and improving them. We also discussed how it would be useful to screen shot the blog before you edit it, as you will be able use these to document on your learning process through out this Degree.
So yes I do remix my personal information constantly, the blog is only one example. I pretty much edit every post I put on social media for one reason or another.

We also touched on the subject of our personal information being out on the web for everyone to see and how important it is to be careful with the way we are portraying ourselves as professionals. Also an interesting subject to look further into is, if someone else has published information about your self can you then delete that?

 

These are a few words Paula said that really stuck with me. It made me realise that I have been only looking out in my research and blogs. Relating topics to other people in other circumstances and not to my own personal self. Although its important to relate to other peoples situations it is equally as important to look back at your self and your own experiences.  This is how I will learn and improve what works best for me.

I hope this blog has been helpful for anyone that couldn't make the session today. Look forward to meeting you all in the future.

Thanks again to Paula, Cassie, Bethany and Lucy for making my first session so enjoyable and informative.