09.23.06
Reflecting on my course
One of the modules in my MSc is reflection in practice, and involves putting together some kind of portfolio of your critical reflections on your learning throughout the 2 years of the course. So far, the most I have done is to keep a few key items in a folder. These include post cards from the galleries we have visited and a couple of documents and a poster from one of our poster sessions. All of us on the course have been worrying about our inactivity on the reflective diary front, after all, how do you remember what you did 9 months ago, let along how you felt about it?
W e had the opportunity yesterday to see the portfoilos of some former students and what became clear, is while this assignment will need some theoretical underpinnings you have a pretty free rein on how you portray this very personal part of how the course has enabled your learning to take place. This is when I remembered that I have written snippets about my learning on this course here within this blog. So actually I do have a record of sorts, all be it descriptive at times, but it is a start. It is also something I will be able to continue doing in the coming year so that at the end of the course I am able to print off extracts of this blog and put them into the portfolio to provide evidence of my reflection on my learning.
At the moment the rest of the course feels slightly daunting, there is a lot of work to do, a lot of words to write, a lot of reading to be done. But at the same time, I am at least reasonably clear of what lies ahead and what I need to do to be able to get there. If I can use this blog to help and support me in this, then all the better!
