"Researching The World Around You"

I have two things to share with the group the first being http://pinterest.com I found this really helpful with "pinning" everything I am researching onto a virtual board. Very cool! Adesola recommended it to me at the end of Module One and I found it really helpful this week and found a really informative book on my subject, which I’ve ordered! 

Also a friend of mine on Facebook shared an article he had come across about a dancer living in London I had mixed emotions on it especially the negative title, but related to the passion. I spoke to my sister yesterday via face time and we spoke about my proposal idea she teaches A-Level Phycology and Social Science and it was really cool speaking to someone whose research modes and methods are the same but who is completely non-artistic! We went onto speaking about positive thought and visualization skills which if you hadn’t noticed is very much at the heart of my professional practice and my proposal has elements interweaved into this, she recommended to me some work of a Psychologist Bandura on Self-Fulfilling Prophecy his investigations included with chosen rats and mazes and if you believed your rat would do it well then generally it would complete the maze! Although I haven’t looked into it further it kind of underpins my own theories about being a "product of you environment" which interestingly is a theme in Middlesex University YouTube video on the home page. And also shares themes with the article I mentioned before:

 http://industrydancemagazine.com/2014/03/why-i-will-never-be-quite-good-enough/

Let me know what you think.

Being an autonomous distant online student I reiterate the importance of sharing your own work with support structures be it family and friends, social media, the blogs and linked-in. Also in the process of completing your brief literature review like bibliography’s can lead you to other findings, these support structures in your learning environments be it virtual or not can do the same.