Joseph says:
First I want to say thanks for being a part of our blog because I believe this is the last new posting we will contribute to the blog, but not necessarily the last comments we will make on it. When you take Capstone in your final semester, you will need to have a finished e-portfolio, which happens to be our last assignment due in it. I say take the time now to add content to your cells so they will be available to you once you have to actually assemble the rest of the e-portfolio because I did not do so, and I am scrambling with finding material to add to it. After I had written a paper that was saved on my computer, I typically put it in the recycle bin and consequently deleted it at a later date, so I really do not have much to put in the content cells. It is much easier if you put it in the cells as soon as you are finished with it.
I think reflection has more of a personal feel to it, with more emotion and hindsight applied to it than just description. Reflection seems to have a little more right brained activities (like synthesizing, seeing the whole picture, understanding context and feeling, and recognizing patterns) than description, which I feel leans more towards the left-brain (like logic, sequential learning, organizing, etc.).
Ada says:
I'd also like to thank you guys for giving such great participation in this blog; you really thought about the prompts and we had some pretty good discussions. I liked hearing about everybody's different paths and experiences at UCF.
To me, reflection is very different from description. Reflection, to me, implies going further and critically thinking about a subject... thinking about its implications, its significance, its causes or effects. Joseph makes a good point about using different parts of the brain; I think I might agree... it takes a different kind of thinking to examine events in a different way and try to understand their significance and reflect upon their meaning to you instead of just the events themselves and what happened. (And if your capstone class is anything like ours, you'll be spending a lot of time talking about different ways of thinking and the different sides of the brain.)
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Share how you're planning to use reflection in developing your e-Portfolio content pages.
Share your understanding of reflection. How is it different from description?
To me reflection differs from description because when you describe things, you are simply listing details about that thing or object. Reflection on the other hand is explaining how that thing made you feel or how you reacted to that object or how that object effected you. I plan on using reflection in my e-portfolio content pages by explaining how I have grown and bettered myself at UCF. I won't just describe what I did or accomplished as and undergrad, I will explain how those things impoved me as a person and improved my education.
ReplyDeleteI would also like to thank both of you, Ada and Joseph. All of your advice and informative posts have really helped me. I now know so many valuable things about job interviews, resumes, my e-portfolio and so many more things that we have disscussed. Thanks again for being so helpful and friendly!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Ada, about having to critically think in order to use reflection. So many things need to go into a reflection that having the ablitly to bring them all together and associate them in the proper way in the key. I think that reflection should be a big part of all of our lives because if we look back on everything we do we will be able to learn things from every event in our life. Maybe we will realize that we shouldn't ever do something again or maybe it will be a positive thing, like discovering that whatever we did was the most effective thing we could have done in the situation so now we know how to handle it next time.
ReplyDeleteBecause the content pages of the e-Portfolio are basically the opportunity to tell my story, I feel that reflection should be used throughout most of the content pages. I want the reader of my e-Portfolio to be able to fully understand and grasp why I want to become a medical professional and how the idea formulated early in my life. I also plan to reflect on my schooling and how the classes I took and the experiences I had in college also changed some of my original goals.
ReplyDeleteTo me, reflection is the real and in depth behind the scenes look at something. When I reflect on something I like to look at the situation from every angle while also being sure to include information allowing the reader to understand what it is I'm talking about. Description, however, is just recitation of the situation or issue at hand without giving a real in depth outlook on it. Reflection on something involves feelings and allows others to see everything from your point of view as well as provides insight to better understand.
Joseph,
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you theorized the right/left sided brain activity using description and reflection, I completely agree with you. Reflection is just an overall deeper and more emotionally driven way of writing whereas description is very logic and step by step.
Thank you so so much to everyone that participated in this blog with me. I love how, although I have never met any of you, you have all given me such great ideas as well as advice on bettering myself as a professional and as an individual. I will take the information I have gathered here and use it not only for this class but for many experiences to come. Once again, thanks guys!
ReplyDeleteIt was nice being on the other side of this blog. For our Capstone class, we read a book by Dan Pink called "A Whole New Mind" that described some differences between the two hemispheres of the brain and then went further and described what is going to be needed intellectually and artistically in our next up and coming era, the Conceptual Age. He says we are transition from the Information Age to the Conceptual one and he offers some very compelling arguments.
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