Workshop Go Wales Reflective diary website

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WorkshopGo Wales Reflective diary website

• Sue Tangney

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Session plan

• Background to reflective practice website
  development
• Familiarisation with site itself
• Suggestions for supporting participant use of
  site

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Background

• Go Wales funded
• 10 week funded placements for undergraduates and
  graduates
• Reflective report, City Guilds professional
  development award

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Website development

• Part of Go Wales site
• Interactive with several tools for reflection
• Useful for reflecting on work experience, PDP,
  many other aspects of curriculum
• Password protected
• Lifetime use
• http//www.gowales.co.uk/reflective

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Tools

• Reflect different abilities
• Reflect different scenarios
• Reflect different individual preferences
• Not exhaustive, may be populated with others over
  time
• Underpinned by literature

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Reflect on an Event

• Perhaps most accessible for beginner
• Critical incident reflection
• Often based around a difficult situation, but
  not exclusively
• Questions to start thinking about others
  viewpoint, disclose more about self

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Johari Window (cited in Brockbank and McGill
(1998) Facilitating reflective learning in higher
education
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Johari Window (cited in Brockbank and McGill
(1998) Facilitating reflective learning in higher
education
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Johari Window (cited in Brockbank and McGill
(1998) Facilitating reflective learning in higher
education
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Johari Window (cited in Brockbank and McGill
(1998) Facilitating reflective learning in higher
education
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Structured reflection

• Useful way to structure reflection for some
• Questions may be generated by previous questions/
  answers
• Jenny Moon (1999) citing Hahnemann students
  asked to write questions on a topic before group
  discussion starts. This followed by reflection
  on discussion.

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People and their things

• Write an autobiographical account of your day and
  your bag/ your pockets
• Self-assessment
• Peer-assessment
• Encourages students to re-read, re-think

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Free text other ideas

• Essay question Feedback from my essays
  determines how I approach the next one.
  Discuss.
• Recall a difficult situation you were involved
  in during your work placement. Consider and
  discuss from all parties points of view

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Free text other ideas

• Rewrite entry from another persons perspective
  (e.g. from lecturers perspective, or if new
  lecturer, from students perspective)
• Write as dialogue between two people
• Double entry write on same incident one week
  later, one month later
• Critical friends

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Other features

• At present there is a facility to track
  anonymised participants accessing the website
• It would be possible to track known participants
  access data if you wished (for PDP etc) though
  would need participants permission
• Open source, therefore can modify and share
  through repository

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How would you use this site?

• How would you use the website in your programme?
• Which tools will you recommend?
• Would you support the website with at least one
  interactive lecture/seminar?
• What advantages do you see the website providing
  in your programme?
• What limitations do you think the website has?

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Username/password

• test1_at_neges.org test1pass
• test2_at_neges.org test2pass
• test3_at_neges.org test3pass
• test4_at_neges.org test4pass
• test5_at_neges.org test5pass
• gowalestest_at_yahoo.co.uk ivortheengine

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References

• Brockbank, A McGill, I (1998) Facilitating
  reflective learning in higher education
• Hatton Smith (1994) Reflection in teacher
  education towards definition and implementation
  in Teaching and teacher education, 11(1)
• Jenny Moon a range of publications