How to do your reflections

Two examples

Bruce Fulton has very kindly provided an example for us .

So, too, has Ruth Morgan second example .

Content

As you write your reflection, you might use one or more of the following prompts:

What I learned from doing this [lecture/course/note/reading/exercise...] was...

This [lecture/course/note/reading/exercise...] was challenging for me because...

This [lecture/course/note/reading/exercise...] shows that I understand how to...

This [lecture/course/note/reading/exercise...] is important because...

Modified from The Portfolio Organizer: Suceeding with Portfolios in Your Classroom, (2000) Rolheiser, C., Bower, B., and Stevahn, L. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria VA.

Sometimes you might want to document and reflect on an artifact. Here is one approach.

Identify the artifact, then address the following questions

• Which competencies does it meet?
• What is this artifact about (brief!)?
• Why did I choose this artifact?
• What did I learn while creating this artifact?
• How did I grow or change during the process of creating this artifact?

Some details on timing and deadlines

Students should begin their competency reflections immediately upon entering the MA Program. At least five competency reflections must be submitted by the time they complete 18 credits of coursework.

Mid-program reflections are also due the semester in which 18 credits are completed.
Please note this is also the time students' Plans of Study (POS) are due.

The last five competency reflections and the final reflection must be
submitted by the following dates:

If graduating in Spring, the final reflection and the last five competency reflections are due by March 1st.

If graduating in Fall, the final reflection and the last five competency reflections are due by Nov. 1st.

If graduating in Summer, the final reflection and the last five competency reflections are due by July 1st.

Completion of Degree Requirement forms will not be certified until the final reflection has been completed satisfactorily.

The Technical Side

There is a movie showing the computer manipulating steps for producing a reflection. It is 22megs large, which means you definitely want a broadband connection to see it (and you are probably better off being on campus with the fast connections). Anyway, here you are Making a Reflection Movie

Adding an attachment

Here is a movie showing how to add an attachment, and how to insert an image.

Adding an attachment movie [13 megs]

And here is what that movie refers to.

Absolute address http://eportfolio.sbs.arizona.edu/system/files/Fricke1998.jpg

Relative address system/files/Fricke1998.jpg

Image

The uploading of attachments is restricted in two ways: a) by file size (which is presently set at 2 megs) and b) by file suffix (which is presently set to any of jpg jpeg gif png txt html htm doc xls pdf ppt pps odt zip). So if you try to upload your 3 meg myPhDThesis.doc or your 1 meg movie myHoliday.mov, neither will work. 2 megs is pretty big, and we thought it enough, but it might not be for some power point presentations (you could compress them first before uploading). We may set this larger if that seems appropriate (and also we could change the suffixes is that seems required).