JaneShuff

Classroom construction will begin as soon as I have more tea.

Agreed on the group becoming private now and on posting to announce new units.

Agree that posting on the main wall for each unit would be a good idea.

Yep might be a good idea. I’ll do that tmrw unless anyone disagrees… We could post on the main wall to announce new units so anyone interested can join.

Just a thought, but should we make this a private group now. Not because I want to exclude anyone but it’s liable to clutter up the ‘all member’s activity wall’ once we all start contributing. What do you all (including those who don’t plan to do the MA) think?

My lovely books have arrived. If anyone needs it, I’m happy to share photos of the relevant pages (Aside from CalMac ferry vagaries, I don’t want anyone excluded because of book costs). This site doesn’t let you post pictures, I believe (?) but I can do it by email or fb. Just shout…

Woolleybeans, I think we’re all queuing in the playground waiting for the classrooms to appear and have thankfully shoved the responsibility onto you to produce them!

Mine will arrive on the island when the people who bring them over on the ferry get around to it…

If everyone is okay with me doing so, I’ll set up threads on the relevant components once I have had a sleep, so they will be ready to go.

We have said 3 weeks for this class/segment, so hopefully we will all have our books in plenty of time to…[Read more]

Mine due to arrive Tuesday. Ditto for the excitement…

I should have ordered mine earlier, but they’re on the way now.

My books will be arriving shortly. Excited!

I’ve bought the books and I’m looking forward to starting. Thank you WB!

Fantastic @woolleybeans. Thank you so much for this.

Great analysis @woolleybeans. Thanks for the work. I’d better go get those books.

@woolleybeans – wow.Well done. I’ve just shelled out for the required texts, so am ready to go (all on Kindle save for Ursula le Guin which is only available in hard copy as far as I could see)

Spot the person with lots of actual experience structuring study programmes! Thank you so much @woolleybeans this is just what we needed, and sounds like it should accommodate everyone’s needs.
I say we go with this & if we need to review how it’s working after the first few 3 week blocks, then by that point we should have a much clearer idea of…[Read more]

Ok, so. We wouldn’t need to be massively set in stone on a lot of it. I figure the following:

1) Making each ‘class’ in the craft seminars span 3 weeks actually means that with the odd week taken off as a break, the craft seminars would fit nicely into 2 years without being massively heavy time-wise. A couple of hours a week, it reckons, doing it…[Read more]

It looks to me as though a timetable including discussion and feedback would be good on all three aspects, if we are going the route of having a timetable in the first place.

For one thing, the writing practice can include the exercises for the craft seminars, or could be some of the ones Andrew suggests but which are not chosen for the craft…[Read more]

I’m in the camp that would prefer a bit of a timetable but can I just clarify something and sorry if this has been dealt with elsewhere.

Year 1 consists of the Craft Seminars,the first year of writing workshop and the first year of the professional development masterclas.

The Craft Seminars of which there are fifteen IMO lend themsleves to a…[Read more]