Tag: reflection

Personal attachment to research

Mar 11, 2010

in Research

assignment, attachment, personal, phd, positive tool, reflection, research, researcher, safri, social network, supervisor

Yesterday I had a meeting with my supervisor to discuss the assignments I’m going to run as part of the first objective of my PhD. Together with a systematic review and a survey, I was interested in using student and staff participation in a social network to derive additional data that would help me form…
SAFRI: conflict resolution

Mar 6, 2010

in Education

advocate, conflict management, conflict resolution, draw energy, emotion, faimer, intp, logic, mbti, rationality, reflection, residential, safri, Someone

Someone told me that the SAFRI programme had changed their life, and I remember thinking that that might be taking it a bit far. But today brought me closer to thinking that it might not be that far from the truth. It wasn’t so much the content of the session, but the reflection and discussion…
Reflections on improving teaching practice

Feb 8, 2010

in Education, Research, Technology

Ann F. Lucas, blog, lecturer, open textbook, phd, Professor, reflection, research, scholarship of teaching and learning, students, teaching, teaching practice, wiki

Up until today, I was kind of maintaining 2 blogs…this one, and a reflective commentary that I included in my teaching portfolio wiki. The portfolio is something that our faculty suggests we keep for when we apply for promotion, etc. but I thought it could be something more. So when I started teaching in 2007, I…
Reflective writing

Jan 14, 2010

in Assessment, Writing

education, freewriting, Professor, reflection, reflective writing, writing

As part of their clinical placements, our students are required to complete some reflective components and submit them along with their clinical files at the end of the block. These reflections are usually in the form of SWOT analyses, SPAR stories, reflective journals or critical reflections of journal articles. The writing exercises are meant to…
Reflective blogging assignment – finished

Jul 24, 2009

in Assignments, Social media, Students

assignment, blogging, presentation, reflection, saahe

Earlier this year I gave my final year physiotherapy students a blogging assignment as part of their Professional Ethics module. The goal of the assignment was to read a selection of articles that were relevant to coursework that had been discussed in class, to reflect on those readings, and then to post a blog entry…
Results of a reflective blogging assignment in physiotherapy ethics

May 24, 2009

in Physiotherapy, Research, Social media

assignment, author, blog, clinical reasoning, digital native, ethics, healthcare, healthcare education, healthcare system, physiotherapy, presentation, reflection, saahe, software clients, student, university server

Earlier this year I gave my 4th year Ethics class an assignment in which they were required engage in a reflective exercise that not only encouraged interaction with others, but allowed them to see that their own perceptions of the world were different to others’. Reflection has been shown to be a significant factor in…
SAAHE ’09: abstract for oral presentation

Mar 30, 2009

in Conference, Education, Physiotherapy, Social media

abstract, blogging, clinical reasoning, collaboration, education, ethics, healthcare, healthcare system, human rights, lecturer, online tools, physiotherapy, professional development, reflection, reflective tool, saahe, social constructivism, social software, student

Here’s the abstract I submitted for SAAHE ’09. It was submitted for consideration in the Innovations and work in progress category. Title The use of blogging as a reflective tool in physiotherapy ethics. Context The use of social software in higher education facilitates collaborative learning practices and mirrors the social constructivist principles of education by…
Reflective blogging assignment

Feb 13, 2009

in Assignments, Education, Physiotherapy, Social media

assignment, blogging, clinical reasoning, comment, conversation, ethical dilemmas, online space, reflection, reflective tool, social media platforms

A few months ago, I wrote about the use of blogging as a reflective tool. I’ve since developed an assignment for the Professional Ethics in Physiotherapy module I teach, in which students will blog as a form of reflection on some of the topics we cover in class. Every student will then read every other…
Blogging as a reflective tool

Dec 11, 2008

in Social media

blog, clinical placement, confidence, knowledge, language, peer review, reflection, reflective tool

As part of their clinical placements (short term working placements in either hospitals or health clinics), the students in our department must write reflective pieces on their time at the placement where they look at things like their strengths, weaknesses, learning opportunities and clinical situations that raised issues for them. This reflection is usually a…