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just had our first Triad crits this morning, was quite apprehensive about this as it was to yet another group of people i didnt previously know and thought it would be a case of having to start from the beginning again with regards to describing what it is i think i do.

crits comprised of three students and one tutor with three roles to be assigned between the students, these being ; -

Speaker, who talks about thier work for ten minutes.
Listener, who listens to the speaker and then replies to them for ten minutes.
Observer , who listens to both speaker and listener and sums up for five minutes.

The crits actually went well with some interesting talking points arising between the others in my group though mine was perhaps the least well thought through approach in terms of describing my work succinctly. Anyway it was interesting to get feedback and help in this way where you had to keep focused taking notes in order to form reply's to the speaker, the only frustrating part was not being able to speak out with your turn for example after the listener has replied to you or after the observer has summed up. Though frustrating at the time it does leave scope to go on and continue the discussions out with these triad crits and in this respect it is really good for creating dialogue between people who would not ordinarily converse in such a way.

really enjoyed it in the end though as i said might structure my spoken part for next time.