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.

Research Ethics 16/02/12

July 1, 2015

Research Ethics 16/02/12

Lecture today centred on importance of ethics in the research process, why good referencing and citations are vital, plagiarism. Informed Consent Form”, which outlined all relevant details, procedures and their rights to withdraw, including information on what the collected data would be used for.

Kevin gave me some advice on resource; acceptable run time of 20 minutes or less, break it into self-contained units, using RLO’s for a constructivist approach.

• Emphasis on student learning

• Blended learning environment

Data Analysis:

• Triangulation of data

• Participant Observation

• Questionnaires

• Semi-structured interviews

For storyboard: Use powerpoint & then storyboard. Use Camptasia for Screenshots

Posted by Mark Maguire. Posted In : Resource: research, design, development & methods

Supervisor Meetings - Early October 2012

July 1, 2015

Supervisor Meetings - Early October 2012

October 13, 2012

In the initial supervisory meetings, the following were discussed and reviewed:

• the scope and manageability of Mark's project

• access to a target user group - discussing feasibility of project with key stakeholders

• the extent of early reading around the topic to build understanding

• the refinement of a research question

• the nature of the app

• a suitable instructional design model/approach (story-boarding/ADDIE)

• the t...

Posted by Mark Maguire. Posted In : Resource: research, design, development & methods

Evaluation: Workshop: 2/10/12

July 1, 2015

Resource should be:

East to use
Appealing-good design
Content-accuracy-relevent
Fullfill learning objectives
Pitched at right level
Evaluated
Deployed-interoperability
Assessment Included
Feedback

Posted by Mark Maguire. Posted In : Resource: research, design, development & methods

eLearning Metrics 2/10/12

July 1, 2015

Some eLearning metrics are designed to measure number of hits a site gets, this can help in discovering the popularity of the resource.

"Gagne" well designed-unique home page, can help draw in students. Look at Gagnes "9 events of instruction" to lay out the resource, lesson plan, based on how learning occurs.

Examine how to evaluate data: use a focus group
Continue reading...

Posted by Mark Maguire. Posted In : Resource: research, design, development & methods

ePortfolio Development 25/09/12

July 1, 2015

Examine, Diigo, Google Drive, Slideshare,Spicynodes & Pinterest
Continue reading...

Posted by Mark Maguire. Posted In : ePortfolio Development

Resource Development

July 1, 2015

Updates from Lecturer 30/09/12

September 30, 2012

Look at expert group for future skills for information on target user group, save to eLearning project on Bookmarks bar.(www.skillsireland.ie/publications/).
What will app do,(1) Provide the person using it with a personal mapping tool to plan their route in order to change there job through training (2) to provide information about courses available (3) Provide information on some of the course content requirements, ie Maths, Basic Electr...

Posted by Mark Maguire. Posted In : Resource: research, design, development & methods

Resarch Design and Methods 25/09/12

July 1, 2015

eLearning Research Logbook Tuesday 25/09/12

Before deciding on main issues, need to explore the following;
a/ Structure and methods of inquiry, better structure and a scientific method of inquiry when deciding on the most opportune form of educational research.
b/ Research different types of research design and break down the inquiry into seperate steps.
c/ Different research methods are tailored for different groups, depending on group size and characteristics.
d/ Within a literature review its i...

Posted by Mark Maguire. Posted In : Resource: research, design, development & methods

Research Design & Methods

July 1, 2015

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Audio on Xtranormal

June 29, 2015

13-15th March 2013

Audio on Xtranormal

(A) Encountered sustained difficulties putting audio on Xtranormal, slide 1, and ending up embedding the file as “Flash” object and then changed format to “all files”, no mention of this in articulate support.

(B) Audio in PowerPoint version 2013 (pptx) in not supported, had to install a file extraction tool “7 zip file manager” to extract the audio files, before embedding them into Articulate presenter.

Posted by Mark Maguire. Posted In : Blog Post

Qualitative Data Analysis 12th Febuary 2013

February 16, 2013

The lecture chaired by Claire on the the 12^th 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 in the process of reducing the data through analysis, sel...

Posted by Mark Maguire.

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