Turning the page in my
student handbook to Task 2 and seeing words 'Journal' and 'Reflective' my
initial thoughts were - OH NO!!
I have never written or
wanted to write a journal as it was something I didn't like the idea of or see
any point in plus I am quite a private person when it comes to expressing
feelings and thoughts and for some reason I sometimes feel scared about reflecting back on what has happened especially if in that moment of the event I wasn't happy or felt unsure and nervous. The only time I had to write one was in college for part
of the contextual studies where we had to keep a daily or weekly journal about
several classes. I found it really hard especially with finding time in my day
to sit down and make notes, I also felt like I was repeating myself a lot, however
it was a good reference for when writing my final piece of work. I always like
a challenge and think this task will be a big one!
I think the best way I am
going to record my experiences, challenges and thoughts will be on my phone in ‘notes’
for when I am out and about but when I am home I do like making notes with the
good old pen and paper so I will use both these elements of recording but would
like to experiment with other ways of journaling throughout this module like
spider diagrams or graphs.
Like the humour! there is good cause to question why reflective practice is needed - is it just another thing to do in an already busy day? Notes are a great place to start - 'notes' are used in theatre' - journals for creative writing - we used to have creative sketchbooks in the arts - so collection /gathering observing developing - in inquiry critically sensing what is important to focus on - so a great place to start.
ReplyDeleteI'm going along the use of notes on my phone and pen and paper too but how have you found using a journal with the use of spider diagrams or graphs? i can't really think of ways of going into it with diagrams unless I'm being incredibly critical of myself I guess and going deep into the thoughts in my head... (not sue if thats a good thing or not) x
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