Sheahan's MA Professional Practice Blog

 Hello MDX Team, As many of you know, as I prepared my inquiry for Module 2, I was asking about setting up a ZOOM account with MDX for my interviews in Module 3. I asked in our What's App group and received some great ideas. I did follow advice and created my own account using my MDX email, however, I then realized the free personal account has its limitations. Limitations that would not work for group interviews. Now I have made a discovery I want to share in hopes of helping others find and use the MDX ZOOM account more easily.  Here is how I set up my ZOOM under the MDX licence using my MDX email. There are settings already chosen and locked by the University but there are lots you can personalize.  When logged in to your MDX student account, click on My Learning Essentials.   On the right-hand side in a column is the list of Online learning - useful resources . Yes, they are useful resources!  In that list, you will see Zoom and newrow guides . Click that....

This may seem a ridiculous thing to post about but the parallels in my worlds are revealing themselves everywhere and I wanted to share.  As we approach exciting deadlines for MDX, ISTD ballet exams, marking for end of term papers for my students, competition beginning, and workshop presentations for Healthy Dancer Canada, my need to be almost obsessively prepared overtakes me and I see the parallels in all areas of my life. Ensuring we have edited and proofed our essays and included all the required appendicies for our inquiry submission is not only equivalent to dotting the Is and crossing the Ts, but akin to the preparation for performances.  I enter into my first year as a competition choreographer since Covid occurred I see the parallels in the studio and in my home office space regarding preparedness.  The addition of sequins, altering, gathering or ruching costumes is just like downloading, filling, double-checking Award forms, Employer support forms, making Table ...