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Evidencing My Journey 28/6/2021 Last Post - Hurrah!!

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                                                   Evidencing My Journey                                                        28th June 2021                                                   Last Post - Hurrah!      What have I learnt over the last 6 months as a citizen curator? Patience, good communication skills, and to think about the multiple stories one object can tell.  What have I found hardest? The poor communication from the museum/gallery volunteer coordinator has hampered our group dynamics dramatically. The few information requests we have had have not been val...
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Evidencing My Journey 16/6/2021 - Working with the app again - testing my patience!

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                                                          Evidencing My Journey                                                                 June 16th 2021                                    Working with the app again - testing my patience!              Over the last week things have begun to move forward with the project - Hurrah!  Someone has kindly rewrote some of my colourless audio descriptions, which has been a real blessing as my creativity is still away on its holidays. The directions were recorded, but not uploaded due to issues with the ...
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Evidencing my Journey 10/6/2021 Reflecting on working with the app - Trying to see my way through the trees

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                                                           Evidencing My Journey                                                                 June 10th 2021              Reflecting on working with the app - Trying to see my way through the trees                                    Last week I agreed with the group I would upload both the photographs and the screen shots of the artworks to the app in the order that the route had been written.     I had ready all the high resolution photographs and artworks on my iPad. Thinking that pe...
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Evidencing My Journey 31/5/2021 Cornish National Collection Submission - Do I or Don’t I - What now?

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                                                        Evidencing My Journey                                                                 May 31st  2021                                             Cornish National Collection Submission                                                       Do I or Don’t I - What now?   Having offered to forego my submission to help someone else in the group, over the last few days. Who ...
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Evidencing My Journey 31/5/21 Mug?

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                                                       Evidencing My Journey                                                              May 31st 2021                                                                Mug?            The one way conversation at long last became a two way conversation. Hurrah thought I.   I offered support with information technology as they they admitted struggled with it. I even said I would forego my contribution to The Cornish National Collection to help them out. Onl...
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Evidencing My Journey 27/5/21 Listening to Silence

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                                                                             Evidencing My Journey                                                         May 27th 2021                                                    Listening to Silence                                                                                    ...
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Evidencing My Journey 25/5/2021 Stormy Skies

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                                                   Evidencing my Journey                                                         May 25th 2021                                                           Stormy Skies               I’m very frustrated and preparing to pull all my work from the shared Dropbox folder.  Why?  One of our group who has lacked clarity of intention from the very beginning of the project. Has decided that there not able to write a brief audio description of an art work which we have received training for...
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