CSP STUDY GUIDE 3
1) what is the most important part of your CSP for you? Make sire that it figures into your thesis statement for the question - it shoudl be the organising principle of your work.
I love drawing the figure - its so zen because it enleves all responsibility he/she's there, he/she's striking, he/she's an articulated whole that you have to capture as poetically as possible - no worry about meaning, no worry about subject, only minimal worry about composition, its all on technique and the act of drawing - some people can free themselves up and indulge in pure technique without a subject, and make something abstract, but I still have problems with that, so weirdly the most constrained kind of drawing is kind of liberating for me.
2) How will you create a presentation that can teach us about your CSP experience? What are visuals, role plays, ecperiences that may help us grasp what you have learned? make sure to consider different types of learning styles when thinking about your audience (visual, participatory, etc).
maybe before the presentation I could have everyone write on little peices of paper 'who's your favorite artist and why' but that might be mechante, that's an intimidating question - I'm always intimidated by that question. Maybe I could also ask them what they value in awork of art, or if they were and artist what kind of artist would they be, and then (presumptuosly) tell them why they feel that way. But of course they might all give answers that have nothing to do with my presumptions and that would take all the steam out of my presentation from the very beginning. Maybe since the most important thing about the class for me was drawing I could make them draw something while I'm talking - that would make it easier for me to talk to them, if I knew they weren't paying attention. Maybe I could somehow draw something that was symbbolic of what I'm trying to say. Maybe each part of my argument could be a part of a figure I'd draw on the whiteboard while I talk ... maybe there's some way it could work like that storytelling origami, where you fold a boat and the boat turns into a bird and the bird to a house to a tree to a cat until finally you've got an elaborately creased geisha waiting for you at the end of the story. Somehow I don't see how I'm going to work that.
3) What was your greatest improvement in your language learning strategies during your CSP community? Culture learning strategies? Why did you progress or not?
I basically just got practice initiating conversations. I feel like I maybe kind of dropped the ball on the language learning strategies in these classes, becuase they're generally kind of quite - people only really talk during the pauses. My cultural learning strategies may have developed a little in that I've been forcing myself to be neurotically culturally aware in order to come up with something to say about this experience.
4) Do you have any advice for the design of the CSP project? For future students conducting CSP?
despite what people tell you, think about what you're going to 'study' - that is, whatever will become the subject of your paper - before you join your group. Or at least go in with a question you want answered. If you can't think of anything that could possibly come up to write about in a the setting that you've chosen it's entirely possible that nothing will, and you'll have to have to do some despareate wringing of the experience if you want to find something to say. and also, think ahead - SIT's schedule changes every week and just becuase your CSP fits into your schedule this week doesn't mean it will the next - if you're going to find yourself unable to parcipate in your group after a certain point be aware and modify your personal schedule of where you want to be in your project accordingly.
I love drawing the figure - its so zen because it enleves all responsibility he/she's there, he/she's striking, he/she's an articulated whole that you have to capture as poetically as possible - no worry about meaning, no worry about subject, only minimal worry about composition, its all on technique and the act of drawing - some people can free themselves up and indulge in pure technique without a subject, and make something abstract, but I still have problems with that, so weirdly the most constrained kind of drawing is kind of liberating for me.
2) How will you create a presentation that can teach us about your CSP experience? What are visuals, role plays, ecperiences that may help us grasp what you have learned? make sure to consider different types of learning styles when thinking about your audience (visual, participatory, etc).
maybe before the presentation I could have everyone write on little peices of paper 'who's your favorite artist and why' but that might be mechante, that's an intimidating question - I'm always intimidated by that question. Maybe I could also ask them what they value in awork of art, or if they were and artist what kind of artist would they be, and then (presumptuosly) tell them why they feel that way. But of course they might all give answers that have nothing to do with my presumptions and that would take all the steam out of my presentation from the very beginning. Maybe since the most important thing about the class for me was drawing I could make them draw something while I'm talking - that would make it easier for me to talk to them, if I knew they weren't paying attention. Maybe I could somehow draw something that was symbbolic of what I'm trying to say. Maybe each part of my argument could be a part of a figure I'd draw on the whiteboard while I talk ... maybe there's some way it could work like that storytelling origami, where you fold a boat and the boat turns into a bird and the bird to a house to a tree to a cat until finally you've got an elaborately creased geisha waiting for you at the end of the story. Somehow I don't see how I'm going to work that.
3) What was your greatest improvement in your language learning strategies during your CSP community? Culture learning strategies? Why did you progress or not?
I basically just got practice initiating conversations. I feel like I maybe kind of dropped the ball on the language learning strategies in these classes, becuase they're generally kind of quite - people only really talk during the pauses. My cultural learning strategies may have developed a little in that I've been forcing myself to be neurotically culturally aware in order to come up with something to say about this experience.
4) Do you have any advice for the design of the CSP project? For future students conducting CSP?
despite what people tell you, think about what you're going to 'study' - that is, whatever will become the subject of your paper - before you join your group. Or at least go in with a question you want answered. If you can't think of anything that could possibly come up to write about in a the setting that you've chosen it's entirely possible that nothing will, and you'll have to have to do some despareate wringing of the experience if you want to find something to say. and also, think ahead - SIT's schedule changes every week and just becuase your CSP fits into your schedule this week doesn't mean it will the next - if you're going to find yourself unable to parcipate in your group after a certain point be aware and modify your personal schedule of where you want to be in your project accordingly.