After each activity recording my own thoughts and feelings as reflections on the learning experience and learning theories, in a journal format, I found to be useful in sparking deeper thought and further developing my understanding of concepts such as the scaffolding online, collaborative and networked learning, ad relating them to the learning theories. As a result, I have been able to reflect on my own learning and the potential for my students. Reflections in a public blog, however, I am not so keen on. I preferred to keep my reflections private up until it was required to synthesise my ideas into a conclusion. The reason being, I believe a public blog encourages other students to read and use ideas that have been developed by others. Encouraging collaborative learning through a blog can still be achieved by posting the blog addresses after the due date of the assignment. This way, other students can still read and use other ideas to add to their own learning, just not get credit for the additional ideas that were not originally their own.
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