Tears from Angeles Lopez on Vimeo.

Hamburger Eyes from Nick Fogarty on Vimeo.

our photographers join the conversation with two of their own images to discuss a single topic. I think it will provide an opportunity to turn the conversation from equipment and software, to….wait for it…photographs. What a concept!

The first episode focus on “Shadow and Light” and brings together Jeff Curto (History of Photography & Lens Position), Chris Marquardt (Tips from the Top Floor), Martin Bailey and myself, Ibarionex Perello (The Candid Frame). If we get a good response to the show and format, I intend to continue producing the program once a month. Let me know what you think.

Also found some wonderful photography by Elliott Erwitt

What is ‘Reflective Practice’ ?

Reflective Writing This paper focuses on Health care professionals but the basic principles are the same.

Donald Schön (1983) suggested that the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning was one of the defining characteristics of professional practice. He argued that the model of professional training which he termed “Technical Rationality”—of charging students up with knowledge in training schools so that they could discharge when they entered the world of practice, perhaps more aptly termed a “battery” model—has never been a particularly good description of how professionals “think in action”, and is quite inappropriate to practice in a fast-changing world.
The cultivation of the capacity to reflect in action (while doing something) and on action (after you have done it) has become an important feature of professional training programmes in many disciplines, and its encouragement is seen as a particularly important aspect of the role of the mentor of the beginning professional. Indeed, it can be argued that “real” reflective practice needs another person as mentor or professional supervisor, who can ask appropriate questions to ensure that the reflection goes somewhere, and does not get bogged down in self-justification, self-indulgence or self-pity!

The quality and depth of the reflection, however, is not specified within this formulation: and it is interesting that two different traditions of professional development emphasise seemingly contradictory aspects. Reynolds (1965), and particularly Dreyfus and Dreyfus (1986) discuss how developing practitioners come gradually to take for granted aspects of their practice which initially preoccupied them, and move on to be concerned about (reflect upon) wider matters. This taking-for-granted on the one hand, and reflection on the other, offers a view of how reflection-on-action deepens in the course of a career.


ATHERTON J S (2009) Learning and Teaching; Reflection and Reflective Practice [On-line] UK: Available: http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/reflecti.htm Accessed: 12 October 2009

What is a PDP?

BBC -What’s your personality type?

The VARK questionnaire

Download and complete the following word documents

Who Am I?

Personal Skills

The Film Analysis Guide was developed to meet the needs of faculty and students at Yale who are interested in becoming familiar with the vocabulary of film studies and the techniques of cinema. The user can either read the complete document or search out a particular topic of interest. -- Related links within the Guide are provided as appropriate, as are links to film clips illustrating the topic or term in question.

Fairly decent resource on film language. We will be working through aspects of this during the first semester. Please feel compelled to read and watch the clips.

[From Film Analysis]

Building on our experience of running Starter for 6, the toolkit will provide guidance, activities, downloadable worksheets and case studies to challenge individuals to draw on their creative and personal strengths.

The toolkit is accompanied by tutor notes - supportive information aimed at university professionals and enterprise organisations that support creative individuals in the early stages of their enterprise career.

[From Enterprise toolkit - Creative start-ups - Creative Economy - Programmes - NESTA]

In an effort to find a new generation of British design talent, Philippe Starck, one of the world's best known product designers, invites 12 hopefuls to a school of design he has set up in Paris

[From BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Design for Life]

Contestent profiles

Publisher's Note: Man With a Movie Camera is part of a new five-cassette video series from Kino on Video, called "The Soviet Avant Garde." The score was recorded by the Alloy Orchestra using Vertov's precise instructions for musical and non-musical accompaniment

[From Images - Man With a Movie Camera]