Starting Diploma of creative arts and health – Week One

This is a marker for the start of this. Not sure how I’ll use the blog but just for me really but with the advantage of cloud storage so I can come to it and take notes and find them easily even on my phone.

Creative Arts and Health Lounge – This has general discussions and useful online links. Have read this week’s link and introduced myself.

Brain and Behaviour – Just an intro week by the look at it. Only task is to introduce and reply to a fellow student which is done. Other thing is to work out how to buy the psychology and apa text. I can read psychology online but the apa referencing text needs to be bought.

Photoessay – Went to a zoom intro meeting and got some good ideas about how you could tell a story perhaps in a more abstract way with the use of things to hand now, even in the telling of an old story. Haven’t decided what I’ll do yet. My group’s zoom is actually on Friday at 7 pm.

Photoessay’s theme must relate to Arts and Health.

Have to post to the discussion board with a window into your world. Was going to use photos from when I was waiting in the car for Dan but then I decided to go with a photo of the kitchen and Dan as a baby reflected in the tv from my seat at the computer. Had some interesting lines in the tv and the lamp and something to say about the lamp which I moved today. I’m already enjoying doing this stuff. I like little projects that can be completed and you have a sense of achievement.

Moving the lamp to get more light on my face for zoom. As I dragged it through the nest of power cords behind the tv, the lamp shade connected with with rough bricks and I heard the sound of tinkling glass. I turned the broken bit to the wall.

Arts in the community- preliminary info about community arts and benefits. Nothing much to do this week other than introduce

Creativity for life– creative projects starting straight away. Will need to divide the blog into units because need to keep a journal for this one