myblog | Mat Denney | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/19039186/activity/ Activity feed for Mat Denney. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:15:50 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 59476cf55216f9258638dcc103c50f75 Mat Denney posted a new activity comment https://joelpgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/06/06/faith-blog-post/#comment-7 Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:01:34 +0000 I appreciated your honesty when reflecting on the first incident – using objectivity to create distance between the work and your discomfort. Can any response be objective when students’ work is so integral to their identity? I wonder if there’s a double standard regarding a student’s faith and if we’d have the same reaction if a student were ma…Read more

In reply to - Joel Peter Ayo Simpson wrote a new post on the site Joel's PGCERT Blog I’ll start this post by reflecting briefly on the two situations in which students I was working with (in my capacity as Writing Tutor) were […] ]]> 9d6adeeb0459795ebfa8c31ba1012e54 Mat Denney posted a new activity comment https://katherinehearstpgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/05/25/on-christine-sum-kim-https-vimeo-com-31083172/#comment-3 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:23:20 +0000 Christine’s experience of sound as not belonging to her has really stayed with me. I agree that the media we use must be more expansive and flexible and that it’s not just about audio transcriptions and closed captions but about our teaching methods and objects. But these can also be exclusionary. I teach a unit that dedicates significant time to…Read more

In reply to - Katherine Hearst wrote a new post on the site katherinehearstpgcert Kim expresses attitudes to her disability as a negation, or ‘choking’ of her voice- because she couldn’t experience sound in an unmediated form, […] ]]> 1b61f50368f803ca8a7159def94ffcd7 Mat Denney posted a new activity comment https://katherinehearstpgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/05/25/on-deaf-accessibility-for-spoonies-lessons-from-touring-eve-and-mary-are-havingcoffee-by-khairani-barokka/#comment-4 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:23:20 +0000 “Any artistic endeavour is belied by a compulsion to sacrifice resources and wellbeing in order to achieve the creative output. This framework is something that defined my understanding of artistic production and is one I see perpetuated in arts education.”

Thanks for pointing this out. It made me examine some of the neoliberal narratives tha…Read more

In reply to - Katherine Hearst wrote a new post on the site katherinehearstpgcert The description of artistic production as a ‘contact sport’ resonated with me- it highlights the punishing nature of creativity within the cur […] ]]> 688db48a656cd74d79d1fc74bced496d Mat Denney posted a new activity comment https://joelpgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/05/17/post-5-disability-developing-a-pedagogic-practice-for-the-new-removal-of-disabling-barriers/#comment-3 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:11:39 +0000 It was great to see your perspective on inclusive teaching and some of the strategies you intend to use with your students. Our teaching environments and contact are different in many ways (frequency of contact, one-to-one versus whole class), but there are many approaches here that I could adopt.

I can introduce the whole class to reading…Read more

In reply to - Joel Peter Ayo Simpson wrote a new post on the site Joel's PGCERT Blog I want to start this post by noting things that I took from my engagement with the recommended resources on disability, before outlining how I […] ]]> de762d9ef5224b580eb4c59c176be693 Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=78 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 13:57:07 +0000 18 Jan 2023

Think about a blog post about pile-upsUse this experience as an ethnographic project – attend to what is mattering to usThe brief – address it in terms of where I am now – we don’t manage we s […]

]]> 0 9fb8c86c81a7f13b97a001623d26f225 Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=65 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 13:14:35 +0000 8 February 2023

Some notes from the session

A little preamble where we talked about the value of affect in education, which led to John recommending Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart’s “The Hundreds” […]

]]> 0 d3bb608e031465c91042cc130b057b83 Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=64 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:50:38 +0000 The group had a really interesting discussion after my microteach about the role of play in learning and transmitting knowledge. The tactility of using objects, but also extemporising around them, as a way to […]

]]> 0 df5a0cabcaef97a4aa8084a93d440d4f Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=63 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:16:46 +0000 Some notes as I prepared my microteach session

Think about the LO I want. Could be any of these:

Observational skillsVisual literacy (ability to ‘read’ objects, to find meaning from them)Design awa […]

]]> 0 d60c8f163fe7f9837ac3f0f86b3bc3be Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=37 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:10:28 +0000 Notes from the introductory discussion

There are 3 short case studies to write as part of our assessment for the unit. These are a mystery!What is a self-reflective framework? An example is the Professional […]

]]> 0 564101497c1cceff260f7bd3a71e37a1 Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=16 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 17:34:57 +0000 Teaching Artefacts

25th January 2023

We brought in teaching artefacts from our own practices to discuss with the class. I brought in a sound workshop that I’d designed, and a Learning Outcome matrix from a […]

]]> 0 35bb2b4144135964bc3154e4cc2d916a Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=15 Sat, 11 Feb 2023 22:00:11 +0000 In the previous post about the icebreaker exercise, I wanted to find out the context of the Macfarlane quote, in case there were some insights about creating an environment of ‘safe risk-taking’.

The quote […]

]]> 0 ce55be145e7150afb7b40bd7a9299c73 Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=14 Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:37:15 +0000 Notes and reflections on the ice breaker discussion

We started by choosing a quote to discuss. My group discussed this one from Macfarlane:

While risk-taking is central to the critical thinking process, […]

]]> 0 b307cddec8ca71d6731c464da452379c Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=13 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:33:52 +0000 Realisation 1: I forgot that I’d researched Bloom’s Taxonomy back in 2019 when applying for my AFHEA, and had subconsciously absorbed Petty’s (1998) recommendations for using incorporating all three of Bloom’s […]

]]> 0 5da4158db9204cbe7a3b3bc93816fac7 Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=11 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:54:27 +0000 Reflections on the cross-course seminar, 11th Jan

This session was about demystifying the research process and using creative methods. This is particularly useful when thinking about some aspects of academic […]

]]> 0 7536bded256bbee8925bfe7ba222bc74 Mat Denney wrote a new post on the site Mat Denney: PgCert Academic Practice https://matdenney.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1 Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:16:01 +0000 I’m Mat Denney, an artist/researcher and lecturer at UAL. I teach at London College of Communication in the Design School. I’m the Lecturer in Emerging Technology on BA Graphic Branding & Identity and an Associate […]

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