Developing tools to encourage reflection in first year students blogs.

McDermott, Roger; Brindley, Garry; Eccleston, Gordon

Abstract

The pedagogical basis of a project aimed at encouraging students to engage in reflective activities using blogs to document their learning experiences is described. It also gives some details of the practical implementation of this work. Activities which scaffold the process are discussed, together with a description of some difficulties that arise when the informal aspects of blogging conflict with the desire to use the reflective work as formal evidence of learning in a personal development portfolio.

Citation

MCDERMOTT, R., BRINDLEY, G. and ECCLESTON, G. 2010. Developing tools to encourage reflection in first year students blogs. In Proceedings of the 15th Innovation and technology in computer science education annual conference (ITiCSE '10), 26-30 June 2010, Ankara, Turkey. New York: ACM [online], pages 147-151. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1822090.1822132

• Conference Name: 15th Innovation and technology in computer science education annual conference (ITiCSE '10)
• Conference Location: Ankara, Turkey
• Start Date: Jun 26, 2010
• End Date: Jun 30, 2010
• Acceptance Date: Jun 26, 2010
• Online Publication Date: Jun 26, 2010
• Publication Date: Jun 30, 2010
• Deposit Date: Apr 7, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 7, 2017
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 147-151
• ISBN: 9781605587295
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1822090.1822132
• Keywords: Reflection; Feedback; Blogs; Graduate attributes; Collaborative learning; PDP
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2266