Sixteen students provided their learning portfolios after the course, which I consider as a very good result in general. I received wonderful project ideas put into plans as well as essays, learning diaries and comments on topical phenomena.
As I promised in the beginning, it demanded a lot of work at advanced level to pass this 6-credit course in good or excellent level. I evaluated the learning portfolios so, that in each of the five areas you could get 0 to 1 points. The areas – with the maximum of one point each – were:
1p = Active presence within the minimum of 80% of the lectures. If less, an extra task or a personal presentation from one’s own field was expected.
1p = Inspiring project description and analyses, where the plan met the schedule and the costs in the budget. The best plans were written in vigorous style and illustrated with visual ideas or references.
1p = Focused essay based on given literature. I was expecting scientific style language where references to literature and other sources were ought to be clear. The best essays included also personal and critical reflection.
1p = Interesting reflection on topical phenomena and personal learning process. In some portfolios that was partly included in the essay or the project plan. Some students wrote personal learning diaries and collected and commented topical links and articles. There were several ways to do this well.
1p = Visual material and critical thinking. The best learning portfolios were visually pleasant to read. In optimum cases images, tables or graphs visualized important information about the projects or other texts and made reading more fluent. Critical aspects towards the literature and lessons were valued.
Some general tips for your further working and studying:
Think about the reader and the style you use in writing.
Project plans should be rather neutral in style. They are often meant for professional readers, who are expected to know the field but not this case in particular. The readers are also often in a hurry, facing some 200 papers in a row.
If your plan is “exceptional” and “totally new”, could you give the reader some examples of its unique nature.
As your topic is project PLAN, you don’t have to write the text conditionally “we could do this” etc. Such expressions make your plan sound uncertain.
Rather that describing, for example your time plan in many sentences, try making a simple list or a table. They give rhythm to the text and serve the hasty reader.
Learn the ways to refer to literature and other sources! There are several ways to do it, but no acceptable way to avoid it. Make it clear, what is your own thinking. And tell, where you got your facts from.
Don’t use first names such as “Katri has made research about…”.
Reflection, critical thinking and personal points of view make all the texts spicy. In learning diaries or as commenting on topical news, a free style and unconventional language is pretty much ok ;)
The plan and the budget should have the same content.
For example, if you write in the plan, that you’ll make a web page, then you must budget it too. You might get something done as voluntary work, but surely not everything from graphic design to content production, coding, domain address or the web hotel.
If your own fee or grant is the biggest cost in the budget, make sure you explain the work and effort it includes with particular care.
IPR’s are about your creations but also about others’.
Always, if there is music in the plan, there are IPR issues to consider. Someone has to report to Teosto and pay the fees. If it’s not the producer, then he/she should know who does it.
Similarly, when you are planning to publish something in the net or on paper, there are photographers’ rights, artists’ rights and possible other right owners to concern.
In case of documenting an event by photo or video, make sure, you have the permission to use those documentations later on. In some cases you need the permission not only from the photographer, but from the people who are in the pictures too.
Thank you for the fall. It was great lecturing to you and learning from you as well! I have e-mailed the course evaluations to the department. I’ll return the portfolios to the Ateljé Class on (14th Jan sorry, new date ->) 23rd Jan. Looking forward to hearing your plans come true - if not these, then some further ones.
Sails up!
Tuuli
P.S. If you are working on a real life project plans and grant applications, these might be something for you:
Pop Up Grant Application Workshops
Wed 15th Jan 2014 from 2 to 7 pm at Poselli Culture Centre, Rauma
Mon 27th Jan 2014 from 2 to 8 pm at Taike – Arts Promotion Centre Pori, Antinkatu 6B
Tue 28th Jan 2014 from 2 to 7 pm at SAMK Fine Arts Department, Kankaanpää
Just pop in with your project plan or book a session for a personal tutoring:
tel. 040 735 3972 or email annukka.ketola (a) kallo.fi
Workshop tutors:
Regional Artist Roosa Halme / Arts Promotion Centre Pori
Regional Artist Taru Anttila / Arts Promotion Centre Pori
Annukka Ketola, Culture Producer / Kallo Works
Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo, Producer / Kallo Works
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