A Reflective Blog

Reflection is considered a crucial philosophical activity which enables an individual to consider an experience, analyse and appraise it, and prepare for future actions based on the insight gained by this new perception.

I judge I will gain a deeper awareness in my learning practice as I work through each module of the Masters in Applied eLearning.

I believe achieving course aims and objectives will help me develop the required knowledge and skills to become an eLearning practitioner.

Gibbs model of reflection maps out this process, by providing a structure it allows reflections to develop a cycle based on, description, thoughts and feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and future action.

Final Reflection, safaashaaban.wordpress.com,

"the reflective cycle" (Gibbs 1988)

Anfuso, J. (2014). "Reflexive and Reflective Learning" PowToon.

This video examines how reflective practice can be used to critically examine teaching methods. Explaining that teaching methods may reflect a teacher’s attitudes and assumptions, good reflective practice will seek to continually question attitudes and assumptions, ensuring they are not hindering good practice. Reflective practice justifies the inclusion of student feedback in resource development.

Leamon, J. (2011). "Reflective Practice and Reflection".

A light hearted introduction to reflective practice, two novice students of reflective practice discuss what it maybe about and what they would like from it, namely for a practical structure providing useful lists, prompts and structure, so they can work out what they need to learn next and not theory driven content, and deliberate that keeping a journal will help the learning and development of your practice.

Atherton, J. Hadfield, P.(2010). "Reflection on Reflection". University of Lincoln.

Using a variety of media in my reflective blog, such as video, images, text, mindmaps, and animation to represent the objectivities of reflective practice.

email to Francis Boylan re technical issues 20/03/013

July 3, 2015

email to Francis Boylan re technical issues 20/03/013

March 20, 2013

Hi Francis,

I mentioned to Roisin I was having some technical issues with the deployment of my eResource, namely (a) how to embed apps into the resource, rather than just having links to them (I can’t find the embed code to do this, as you can just copy & paste it on a you tube video) (b) to check again the requirements for the computers in DLCFE to run Articulate and other Flash enabled software. (I.e. what are usual requirements)?

My (30 day) trail with articulate is now over, I know the coll...

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Email to Philip Thompson re eResource launch 20/03/13

July 3, 2015

Email to Philip Thompson re eResource launch

March 20, 2013

Hi Philip, 20/03/13

I hope your keeping well, I hope to have my eResource ready for launch (or crash) in the 2nd week of April, If I could run it on The PCs in your Lab for about 2 weeks, and let the students evaluate it and do the questions that come with the embedded apps and resource's I th...

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Meeting Tuesday 19th March

July 2, 2015

The meeting with Roisin my supervisor was held to update progress on my artefact and progress on the Journal article. We discussed the overall artefact layout and it was agreed to relocate the bank of 10 questions from immediately after the glossary section to after the electronics app. I mentioned I would contact Francis for technical help, on a number of issues (a) how to embed apps into the resource, rather than just having links to them (b) to check again the requirements for the computer...

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Permission from Wagmob to use their apps in eResource March 6, 2013

July 2, 2015

Permissions from Wagmob to use their apps in eResource

March 6, 2013

Wagmob Team <team@wagmob.com>

to: Mark Maguire <markamaguire49@gmail.com>

cc: Wagmob Team <team@wagmob.com>

date: 5 March 2013 20:13

OK to link. thank you.

Mike

WAGmob Team

WAGmob.Com

facebook.com/WAGmob

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Permission from Wagmob to use their apps in eResource

March 6, 2013

<markamaguire49@gmail.com>

to: team@wagmob.com

date: 5 March 2013 20:09

subject: Mark Maguire Request for Permission

Dea...

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Qualitative Data Analysis 12th February 2013

July 2, 2015

Qualitative Data Analysis 12th February 2013

February 16, 2013

The lecture chaired by Claire on the the 12th February was on the subject of Qualitative Data Analysis, we discussed what qualitative data is, when are the best circumstances to employ it, how to analyse, code, and extract worthwhile information from it.

The topics covered were of direct relevance to my research as I am conducting qualitative data analysis on the open-ended questions, I gathered in my focus group and I am currently...

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Meeting with Roisin Tuesday 29th January

July 2, 2015

Meeting with Roisin Tuesday 29th January

February 4, 2013

Meeting with Roisin Tuesday 29th January

The discussion centred on preparation for building the resource, Roisin is of the view that I have gathered up sufficient materials for building large parts of the resource. I expressed my view about the quality and quantity of readily available electronic apps available for download and that it made a lot more sense to have some of these linked to the resource where required rather than developing...

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Project Overview Page: 12/01/13

July 2, 2015

Project Overview Page: 12/01/13

Discussing the need to design a structured project overview page for ePortfolio.

• Project Overview

• Project Overview Image (Mindmap) Flowchart

• Project Presentation (1) Research Methods Assignment (2) Focus Group Questionnaire (3) Ethics page

• Mid-term report (a) Final Submission (b) Annotated Bibliography

• Image Summarising Project I/P & O/P’s

• Sample Student Storyboards

• WIP Presentation

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Plans for Presentation: Meeting 11/12/12

July 1, 2015

In today’s meeting Roisin and I discussed the upcoming presentation, the project plan was also discussed and we agreed that more research needs to be carried out in the area of eResource application development, specifically focusing on the final development of the learning resources and there ease of use, compatibility and harmonisation with the final electronic, electrical and maths artefacts. The construction of the resource artefacts will commence in late December. The working parts of...

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Searching for Journal Articles 27/11/12 Library-Aungier St

July 1, 2015

Searching for Journal Articles 27/11/12 Library-Aungier St

How to find Journal Articles:

5 Strategies for Searching:

• Consultation

• Citation Searches

• Reference & Footnote chasing

• Browsing

• Searching in subject databases & indexes

Best Databases:

• Academic Search Complete [full text]

• A.E.I. (aust)-good for eLearning

• B.E.I. (British)

• E.R.I.C.

Why use Academic Journals: Published quicker than books.

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Meeting 6/11/12

July 1, 2015

In today’s meeting Roisin and me dicussed the development of the questions for my focus group meeting on the 13/11/12, and the use of needs analysis to confirm the viability of the proposed app. The focus group was dicussed in terms of numbers attending, how to efficiently conduct the meeting and time required.

It was mentioned that it was important to ask the students how beneficial would the provision of an app be, and where and how would they see themselves using it.

My research propos...

C...

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