Vikel came after lunch and talked about how to blog our daily progress of the course. He recommended us to adopt Gibbs' reflective model as the step by step guidance for our blogging. (see picture below). According to Gibbs, the model for reflection includes 6 steps: description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan.
As far as I am concernedļ¼ I think this model will play a very positive role in our studying process. It provides a frame to think about what we have done during the day and a guidance for analysis the good (success and god job) and the bad (mistakes or errors).
Moreover, Vickel also discussed to following this model for the upcoming lessons. For example, we are going to do lofting and AutoCAD in the coming weeks. We can do some research about lofting in advance. I will try to follow Gibbs' model for the lofting lessons.
One question about adopting Gibbs' model for blogging is that it might put additional pressure and works. The daily courses are quite intensive, especially with Chris, as he always keeps on challenging us. If we follow Gibbs' model to review our daily study, there might be too much to think about. Of course we do not have to go through every detail of the day, but details are important.
Anyway, Gibbs' model provides a very good framework to review our daily study and progress, critical thinking is as important as problem solving. The boatbuilding course gives me a fresh experience of learning, and I am going to try Gibbs' model to record my experience. Cheers.
Good one Wei ........ great post ..... your concerns are totally valid and we kept that in mind while designing and before asking the students to do this. This is no different to what you would have done on your paper portfolio ... we are taking this opportunity to take it a step further ....Gibbs Model is a guide and is there to help you and all the other students ..... One thing we haven't really discussed and maybe you should discuss this with Chris is How often does he want you to blog ..... you all (students) should discuss this with Chris and identify what processes need to be blogged ... you don't have to blog everyday .... you can just do the bear minimum (however I think the more you blog the better for you) ... I'll meet Chris sometime this week to discuss this ..... keep up the good work .... love reading your blog ... :-)
Posted by: Vickel Narayan | 08/11/2010 at 10:40 AM
How is it Vickel?I agree with the above statement. How much to Blog and when to Blog.I'm thinking that if we as a group discuss this, and as the group progresses thenĀ the How much and When will become clearer.At times the Blog will be used to feed back and check up on and at other times the Blog will be used for a different reason... what this might look like I'm sure on yet.The reflective model post to all will help.Cheers
Posted by: clovegro | 08/14/2010 at 09:20 AM