Reflection 11/11/2013

Description:

Over the past couple of weeks I have learnt about 'blogging'; what a blog is, creating a blog and writing practice blog posts. 

I have been tasked with writing a reflective blog to form the assessment criteria for two modules; Visual Communications: Culture and Creativity and Caroline Lewis' assessment of 21^st Century Learning: Theories and Contexts.

I have also read 'Reflective Journals' and  'Reflective Learning' posted to Moodle by Mandy Peace to gain a greater understanding of reflection.  I already have a basic understanding of the Gibbs 1988 model so I will be including this model and comparing it to the other methods discussed in the document

Feelings:

As I have never written a blog before, let alone formally reflected, I have been finding the thought of a 'reflective blog' fairly daunting.  I am also excited to practice these methods and vary my reflective style throughout my degree.

Evaluation:

In my opinion the Dewey (1910, 1933) model over complicated the process of reflection by asking for a possible solution as the first point of the reflection.   Boud, Keogh and Walker's model of reflection is the most logical out of the models documented in 'Reflective Journals'.  I will explore this method in later reflections as I believe I would easily transition from Gibbs 1988 style to the Boud, Keogh and Walker model.  I felt that Kolb's model was less complicated than Dewey, however, the 'watching' element of the model would suggest that this may be a useful method to use when reflecting on an observation.

Analysis:

After reading the Reflective Journals document and considering all of the styles of reflection within the document, I found Gibbs model the easiest and most logical for my thought process in my first formal reflection.

Conclusion:

Although I had a prior knowledge of the Gibb model, I had never formally reflected before today.  I could have used one of the styles documented in the 'Reflection Journals' document for this blog which would have taken me further out of my comfort zone.

Action Plan:

When the opportunity arises again I will use one of the other models of reflection to blog; I may find that I prefer a different style for this type of reflective writing.  The models I will be experimenting with for reflections in the immediate future will include; Boud, Keogh and Walker's, and Kolb's models.