Your Journey

Welcome Hello to the first year of Creative Media & Game Technologies studies! Again, we wish you a warm welcome and hope you have a great kick-off of your new adventure here in Groningen. In front of you is a journey: a path full of meeting new people, learning new skills, creating new things and growing as a person and professional. On this journey we want to help you develop the best way you can, that’s why we created this method for the academic counselling sessions. Academic counselling During the first year(s) of the CMGT study you wel get frequent help and supervision from an academic counsellor. That means you will talk with them every block, which is four times in the year. The goal of academic counselling is helping you get through the studies and answer questions that you have regards to it. It is not about the content of the courses specifically but more about your approach and progress.  High Impact Learning & CMGT competencies At CMGT we use High Impact Learni...

2 - A. Powerlevels: Everyone has different skills and talents when they start their journey. Some people already know about X, some others about Y. Where do you stand on the ladder? What is within your power and reach? Look at the competencies (see 1. Call to Adventure)...What skills do you already have that match them? Don’t think you start from zero, it’s not only about using tools or knowing code. Everyone has a form of creativity and social skills for example. And what about self-fashioning? What are you good at or are already able to do?  If you would need to classify yourself from beginner, intermediate to advance, where do you stand with the competencies? What activities are you looking forward doing this coming year? Can you describe what you would do during those activities? Think and write down at least two situations. What things might be more difficult for you? Can you translate them in challenges? What will help you tackle those challenges and what are you going to do ...

  Aid You are not alone in this journey, there are people and resources around you to help you! Let’s write or draw a scheme of who and what can help you reach your goals. Take a paper and write down your name in the middle. Now connect it to who could help you:  Think about people Classmates Friends and family Teachers That one person you know from the internet Now write down below their names what they could do for you. Who can you go to when you need to know more about a certain course? Who can you go to when things are looking rough and you need a (virtual) hug? Inventory Think about materials that you use for reaching your goals, make a list, a drawing or copy-paste photos of what is useful to you. For example: Youtube tutorials, useful websites and/or books Post-its in your room to remind you of your goals and nice paper to write/draw on A desk and chair that is comfortable to work A well-working laptop/pc of course! Stuff that makes you happy (a comfy pillow/blanket, a ...