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Module 1: Skype session


It's been nearly a week after our first Skype session introducing us to module 1 and it's been a very hectic week for me to. As it was ballet exam weekend for one dance school I work at so all week we have been preparing them and fingers crossed all went well just got to wait 6 weeks to find out the results. I also was helping out at a Baby Ballet show over in Oldham today so it has definitely been none stop and very active especially looking after 2-4 year olds all day and making sure they was occupied and not messing around. It was all fun and games especially when they performed for all their daddys and mummys, they were all fantastic! 

Back to Module 1: Skype session...

During the Skype call I made lots of notes as for me personally I learn better from writing notes and visual learning so the presentation Paula put together really helped me. I can honestly say that at first I was very confused with everything but after the Skype session finished and I had time to read through my notes and the presentation and readers I manage to make sense of everything and piece it all together and start my research for my tasks.

So in my spare minutes I have been writing notes and researching that's why I haven't had time to blog but hopefully now I can try and make sense of my notes and starting uploading them on here for all to enjoy.

Task 1a: Professional Profile to follow! 

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