1. CML Webinar Series ePortfolios and Open Educational Resources Welcome to today’s presentation: Strategies for Learner Journals Betty Hurley-Dasgupta Center for Distance Learning Your microphone is turned off. Please submit questions/comments through the chat box at any time during the webinar. If you have any technical problems, contact Karen LaBarge through the chat box. Agenda Introduction of our speaker Presentation – 45 minutes Question/Comment period (submitted through chat box) – 15 minutes

2. Poll- Your Experience Please choose the letter that best describes you: A.Have been using journals with students and keep a journal myself B.Have been using journals with students C.Keep my own journal D.Have not yet used journals (myself or with students)

3. Some Definitions Please type in the text box how you would define:  Journal  Reflection

4. Definition of Reflection Three definitions of reflection from the Miriam Webster Online Dictionary are important to consider:reflection the action of bending or folding back a thought, idea, or opinion formed or a remark made as a result of meditation consideration of some subject matter, idea, or purpose

5. Definition of Reflection- Zull James E. Zull, in The Art of Changing the Brain, states that "Reflection is searching for connections--literally!...reflection is a physical process, a bouncing back and forth. For example, light reflects off the window and comes back to us. However, it comes back in a somewhat altered form. It is changed by the process of reflection....And the more things reflect back and forth, the more complicated they get....We need reflection to develop complexity. We may start with a direct and sometimes relatively simple concrete experience, but that experience grows richer as we allow our brain the freedom to search for those still unknown connections. And as we find those connections, our brain changes. We attach the networks of our present experience to those that represent our past experience....leading...toward comprehension." (2002, pg. 164)

6. Why Journals? Facilitates reflection Fosters connected learning Learning-centered

10. Structuring a Journal SII: Strengths, Area for Improvement, Insights Set of questions: –What? –So what? –What next?

11. Structuring a Journal ORID Structure (Stanfield, Nelson) 1. Objective (getting the concrete facts, things observable by all) 2. Reflective (eliciting feelings and associations) 3. Interpretive (considering the meaning and significance) 4. Decisional (formulating a decision or an action)

12. Rubric Part 1

13. Rubric Part 2

14. Mahara Journal

15. Mahara Journal Example

17. Some Resources Eve Portfolio resources https://mahara.esc.edu/view/view.php?id=1265 Reflective Thinking and Writing http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/mod/book/tool/print/index.php ?id=2732#ch1107 Introduction to Reflective Writing (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0plCU9oyZlM

18. Next Steps Identify your goals Identify one step- perhaps working on your own journal Execute! Share!

19. Questions? Please post in the chat box

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