tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30873125526826881572024-03-12T16:29:29.654-07:00Reflective PracticeReflective Practicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089987145525808929noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087312552682688157.post-18434255566170825102011-01-19T03:02:00.001-08:002011-01-19T03:02:31.758-08:00Reflective Practice<!--StartFragment--> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Why reflect?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">During your time at university, you will continue to increase your knowledge and understanding of your subject area.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The process of recording, reflecting and planning helps designers build, develop and review their knowledge and understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What is reflection?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Reflection is defined by LEARNING and THINKING and may occur in two ways:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We reflect in order to learn something <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We learn as a result of reflecting<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Reflection is not simply about using drawing, writing or any other media as a means to directly express what happens in your head.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Reflection is a representation of the thought process and may use a variety of mediums such as drawing, writing and digital media as a means of expressing or illustrating this process. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The method in which you decide to represent this process helps develop and model the content of your reflection, by engaging in a reflective process you are actively seeking to understand ‘how you have learnt’ or ‘what you need to learn’.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">How do we reflect?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Factors that may help shape your reflection could be:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A need to organise knowledge or processes which until reflected upon seem fragmented<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A reflection of your emotional response to a problem that may have affected the outcome; this may be either positively or negatively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A need to reflect and evaluate on what has been learnt in order to progress further on a project<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As you progress throughout your course you will need to utilise various ways of reflecting, by becoming aware of, and actively engaging in becoming a reflective practitioner you are actively seeking to understand how you work as a designer. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It is important to remember that a reflective process within the context of your education should not only help ‘you’ understand either a practical or cognitive process but should also be clear to fellow students and teachers. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Brief<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Develop a blog that reflects upon at least one aspect of each of your workshop sessions. You may decide to reflect upon an area that requires improvement or how to refine a technique so that it aids your design process. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><!--EndFragment-->Reflective Practicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089987145525808929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087312552682688157.post-71378694098252900892011-01-18T03:02:00.000-08:002011-01-19T03:58:57.124-08:00Dashbaord<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsByjliZn-_uKlFX6ehA4a6R2lsygMhuvo26gKLbL5Un85cp0fsHnOi-aZ1VY6rtUP7OJw9Kvy1MxKVRit4D2GBc-Z9PLTI7eJ1bep9IkrL7GpPiFb7juiRhKJxfJ_ZsxVxKvBNdAiD2Xc/s1600/Dashboard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsByjliZn-_uKlFX6ehA4a6R2lsygMhuvo26gKLbL5Un85cp0fsHnOi-aZ1VY6rtUP7OJw9Kvy1MxKVRit4D2GBc-Z9PLTI7eJ1bep9IkrL7GpPiFb7juiRhKJxfJ_ZsxVxKvBNdAiD2Xc/s640/Dashboard.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Reflective Practicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089987145525808929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087312552682688157.post-50946045432731365062011-01-17T04:00:00.000-08:002011-01-19T04:02:20.611-08:00Template designer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv_jD4Wj45nxZ0DEuMP3OA9utS8_7-nGHgyhVCf8BA2kwH3Lj40g9u6eSRu27YDQ2os6H19jivvCiYUvxl-xCh2FF1DEd2XgAzWo7C5_jSNa4uk_q9k2Iilld6rghXtl-zPAVcjLIRZe4e/s1600/Template+designer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv_jD4Wj45nxZ0DEuMP3OA9utS8_7-nGHgyhVCf8BA2kwH3Lj40g9u6eSRu27YDQ2os6H19jivvCiYUvxl-xCh2FF1DEd2XgAzWo7C5_jSNa4uk_q9k2Iilld6rghXtl-zPAVcjLIRZe4e/s640/Template+designer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Reflective Practicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089987145525808929noreply@blogger.com0