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How to Love your Imposter and other Monsters?
Summer break is here, the days are long and bright, and another school year has come to an end. That sounds exciting, right? Well… if I don’t count: the long working hours at the summer job to save money for the tuition fees, the pressure of applying for a placement knowing I have no time…
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The Art of Audio for BCGC:Feel the JOY!
AEL3001 Blog 1 Reflective Writing The Art of Audio for BCGC: Feel the JOY! A new experience can be overwhelming, exciting, and a learning curve, therefore it is crucial to record your personal reflections from it. Every day we go through many different experiences and neglect to reflect upon them or observe how we can…
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One foot in the Industry
Finding Placement Before starting my placement at Relapse Pictures, I had many expectations. Truthfully I thought my work there would be plain sailing, however this wasn’t the case. Being a production assistant is much more difficult than I anticipated. I assumed my responsibilities would be limited and would be mostly observational to begin with but…
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Promotional Video and the Arts
For as long as I can remember I have always been passionate about Arts and Crafts, so when the opportunity to create promotional videos for Craft NI arose, I was delighted as it combined my personal interests with my technical strengths as a Broadcast Production student. In the digital age, where attention spans are ephemeral,…
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Even Teachers Never Stop Learning!
For my chosen placement, I made my way back to my original stomping ground – my old primary school. Since it is my career goal to become a primary school teacher, I seen no better opportunity to carry out my placement for the work-based learning module there at St Joseph’s, in order to get a…
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My Time at the Black Box
“Writing also requires that we find our own voice. Your reflective piece is yours and it shows your unique voice. You will not write the wrong thing because whatever you write will be right for you.”1 (Dundalk Institute of Technology, 2023) Introduction: As I encroached upon the end of the second year of my degree,…
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The Ups, The Downs and the Loops: Navigating the Rollercoaster of Teaching in a Secondary School.
Will this Student Teacher thrive or dive as he delves into the unknown of an all-female secondary school?
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Back-To-Ones!
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The Work Placement Blogs
A Blog Entry by Ciara Captain I’ve always been told that I ‘land in muck and come up smelling of roses’ in relation to my patterns with luck. This was one of those moments. I had only gone and secured my work placement. When I reflect over the past few weeks, I find myself using…