Do it yourself Reflection

Created by Susan Lister (NewMedia Educational Services) on February 14, 2006

I've been busy working on a few different projects - you can peek at one here: Blogs, Podcasts, Wiki's & Screencasts...A Resource from the Jan.24th Workshop (unfortunately, it's only the first installment of 4..the others are on their way!).

So with that done, I turn back to the Triple A project - where we're working on the Reflection Tool, part of the second "A" Analysis....

"Do it Yourself Reflections" - isn't that the essence of reflecting? Well, not necessarily. I love the luxury of having the time to 'free flow' my reflections of life but this is truly a luxury and usually only happens about the third day into a week's holiday. In the meantime, in the lieu of holidays, I find that reading and commenting on other's blogs satisfies my 'reflection' desires. I'm thinking these are more 'directed' reflexive activities for me - I decide what I'm going to read and then reflect on that topic.

This is the idea for Reflection Tool for the Triple A project - http://triplealecture.pbwiki.com/Tool2Review1 It is assumed that the lecturer will use this tool as soon after a lecture as possible. It lists a variety of questions to lead the lecturer's reflection about his/her lecture in several learning domains: physical, cognitive, verbal, auditory, visual. The first step, is for the lecturer to review the questions and identify those he/she doesn't feel is relevant/doesn't feel like answering at the time, etc. Next, s/he reviews a draft of their reflection questions (includes a short analysis of the remaining questions in each domain) and now s/he has three choices, they can choose to print to file / print to printer or complete online. Although the lecturer can write their comments online, in the supplied text boxes, to protect the lecturer's privacy, this tool does not save any of the information he/she has inputted - any inputted text is simply printed out at the end of the process.

Why a Tool for reflection? What's the advantage? The purpose of a guided reflection is to help the "reflector" (or is that, reflectee?) to cover all the basis and perhaps think about his/her lecture in ways s/he hasn't thought about in the past.

Right now, we're designing it very simply - I think it would be good to even go a step further and have a "simplify" button on some of the questions where a lecturer would just use a checklist to identify strengths/weaknesses and future directions.

Feel free to join in on the project by providing feedback in our wiki - http://triplealecture.pbwiki.com/ (the password can be seen at http://www.newmediaworkshops.com/tripleAlecture/ or just email me!).

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		Do it yourself Reflection Created by Susan Lister (NewMedia Educational Services) on February 14, 2006 I've been busy working on a few different projects - you can peek at one here: Blogs, Podcasts, Wiki's & Screencasts...A Resource from the Jan.24th Workshop (unfortunately, it's only the first installment of 4..the others are on their way!). So with that done, I turn back to the Triple A project - where we're working on the Reflection Tool, part of the second "A" Analysis.... "Do it Yourself Reflections" - isn't that the essence of reflecting? Well, not necessarily. I love the luxury of having the time to 'free flow' my reflections of life but this is truly a luxury and usually only happens about the third day into a week's holiday. In the meantime, in the lieu of holidays, I find that reading and commenting on other's blogs satisfies my 'reflection' desires. I'm thinking these are more 'directed' reflexive activities for me - I decide what I'm going to read and then reflect on that topic. This is the idea for Reflection Tool for the Triple A project - http://triplealecture.pbwiki.com/Tool2Review1 It is assumed that the lecturer will use this tool as soon after a lecture as possible. It lists a variety of questions to lead the lecturer's reflection about his/her lecture in several learning domains: physical, cognitive, verbal, auditory, visual. The first step, is for the lecturer to review the questions and identify those he/she doesn't feel is relevant/doesn't feel like answering at the time, etc. Next, s/he reviews a draft of their reflection questions (includes a short analysis of the remaining questions in each domain) and now s/he has three choices, they can choose to print to file / print to printer or complete online. Although the lecturer can write their comments online, in the supplied text boxes, to protect the lecturer's privacy, this tool does not save any of the information he/she has inputted - any inputted text is simply printed out at the end of the process. Why a Tool for reflection? What's the advantage? The purpose of a guided reflection is to help the "reflector" (or is that, reflectee?) to cover all the basis and perhaps think about his/her lecture in ways s/he hasn't thought about in the past. Right now, we're designing it very simply - I think it would be good to even go a step further and have a "simplify" button on some of the questions where a lecturer would just use a checklist to identify strengths/weaknesses and future directions. Feel free to join in on the project by providing feedback in our wiki - http://triplealecture.pbwiki.com/ (the password can be seen at http://www.newmediaworkshops.com/tripleAlecture/ or just email me!). Susan's blog Login or register to post comments 3120 reads
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