Reflecting on this past year - looking forward to the next

I've been reflecting on this past year as we come to the end of 2011.  It has been quite a crazy year for me with trials, discoveries and uncertainties.  Thank you to those who have been supportive to me in our first semester. It's going to be an eventful year in 2012.

Have fun this weekend and I wish you all Happier New Year and see you on the other side.

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Task 3C

My 5 most Important Sources of Information

Blackberry    This would be the portal to communicating with family, friends and business in my world.  Receiving e-mails from my sources for potential bookings and confirmation of bookings.  I travel extensively by road to jobs so the application for travel updates is important to me.  Primarily I prefer to make phone calls as speaking and connecting with my customers, teachers and staff may bring me additional information.

Google/Internet     As an initial search, I will use Google as the  facilitator for basic information on any new topic I'm researching. It could be for a dance project, company business profiles, and  contact details.  Like most people that use the Internet for searching, Google will link me to connect with the basic information I am looking for.  Liam Conman calls this service ‘invaluable’.  Well, I certainly rely on it and would find it most difficult to function without it as it is valuable for me and my business. 

Face Book    Face Book is important to me for calendar of events, dance workshops, classes, some advertising of goods relevant to my business and finding new contacts for networking.  I am thinking about setting up a page for business although I shall keep my current Face Book page for social chit chat.

Youtube   Has endless source of ideas after filtering.  I can reacquaint myself with some original dance moves or sequence and find new moves to add to my repertoire.  I find new inspirational pieces of music from around the world.  Although for some of my choreography I like to have ideas naturally and organically evolve as I listen to the music.  The ‘how to’ videos are great for the step by step instructions, not just for technical help in loading new applications but for other details such as make up applications for various looks and themes.

My Blog   My blog page is very important to me as I work through my BAPP course. I can connect, learn, express my views and ask questions to the students across the three modules as well as communication with my advisers.  The tasks have been painful at times to understand and digest but as Phil Carrol mentions about some of the Readers has been  like ‘reading through treacle’.   After reading some of the students blogs I begin to understand the fundamentals as their understanding is explained clearly.  I found Alicia Beck to have this ability in her quality of writing.  My blog has been revealing, inspiring and on occasions some weird theorising emerges that smacks you in the face when you experience, as Paula Nottingham  once said to me, that  ‘light bulb moment’ 

I do have other sources of information that could be on a par with the five above that are useful to me and they are; TV, Radio, DVD’s but fundamentally and most importantly I like to speak and meet with people.