Destination (Generic)/Activities/Blog Activity

Objectives
For students to gain a thorough understanding of the value of reflection and evaluation for the successful completion of a team focused project.

Activity
Record progress of a project via a weblog/private facebook page - therefore building a portfolio for reflection and evaluation. This document will be a detailed account of the task and is required to contain reflection of practice (what did or didn't work and why). This activity is worth 20% of your total mark.

To support this practice your lecturer will provide feedback to each of your posts and keep their own "Reflective Practice Journal" via comments on facebook.

Task
Create a new team blog and record the following:


 * team contract, goals and timeline with individual tasks
 * team members attendance at meetings/class sessions
 * discussion and evidence of collaboration rather than just cooperation at team and committee meetings
 * research progress
 * action points from meetings
 * feedback from class sessions
 * project planning progression - especially adherence to timeline for project
 * questions or queries for tutor feedback

Additionally - each participant is required to post a summary of the project and team progress to date and future action points (with who is responsible)onto the blog/facebook page, from each meeting. These posts should provide an element of reflection. Read the supporting resources below to assist with this.

Supporting Resources

 * Reflective Practice - Wikipedia
 * Reflective Journey - Why?
 * Reflective Framework
 * Example reflective practice