So far I have attempted the following methods for assisting the creation of this presentation:
Reading things other people have said – this means I have a set of statements I agree or disagree with and may or may not have evidence or arguments for holding these positions. Most of the things I agree with, will be congruent to the statements I already hold to be true.
Mind Map – What is it I want to say? A rough linear or parallel drawing showing the connections between ideas or tracing their epistemology.
A non critical, say everything without censorship essay (6 pages unfinished)
A beginning of the essay which would form the presentation (4 pages, unfinished – descended into questions and ideas to look at in more detail see above)
A Powerpoint presentation, it was hoped this more visual and ‘one thing at a time’ way of representing would help focus the narrative I need to create (14 pages, unfinished, mostly more unanswered questions)
A series of digital post it notes – hoped this would help ‘order’ ideas whilst allowing me somewhere to put them as they floated right to left sides of the brain…. worried that again they mostly have questions not answers and the range of topics and ideas is vast yet so interrelated I’m not sure which ones to cut at the expense of the others.
Plan going forward:
Being aware that there are two main ways of thinking occurring which need evidencing:
PaR thinking – eg how what I did is research. This is a sort of evidence based evidencing, eg I didn’t sit on a train making notes, I was engaged in a process of ehtnography
Creative Thinking – eg: I discovered that in writing this happened so I did this to see if it would help to improve the performance.
Also Performative moments aren’t written, so I’ve got to keep a section of my brain alert to ways of articulating that aren’t written and are better shown.
It feels like talking about what I did to make the work and talking about what I did using research languages, whilst also arguing for these ways of expression to support the work as research and the associated knowledges around knowledge in this context.
knowing this
I am going to write what I did that I think was of interest – including writing in ‘my’ style.
Then
I’m going to find evidence of this in documentation
Then
I’m going to translate some of it into PaR speak and talk about why I might do that
Then
I’m going to try and find clever visual images that support the words
Then
I’m going to edit & refine & rehearse.