If you do a research project about reflection, it would be a missed opportunity to not include a reflection myself.
I have used mobile videos for reflecting back on this project. To accomodate these videos better, I have created an external site module for the reflection part. Please click the link below to open the reflection module. For optimal viewing, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or higher is recommended.
Click here for the reflection module (site will open in new window).
8 comments:
Frank this is an interesting and well used tool to enrich your postings and make the presentation of your work more personal. I can imagine you use more video's also for other purposes like giving background information / reflection on choices you made or guide people through tools or different mobile learning situations.
Your voice is extremely pleasant for this option, not sure about your face ;-)
explanation to the 'reader' that the date of your postings is from recent to old might help oldfashioned readers - but more interesting is if you can manage to get rid of the number sequence yoke - at least I would like that!
your remarks on whether to use you tube or closed encrypted areas are very relevant, it would be interesting to include these and other questions related to privacy and ethics to your view on the theory and practise of mobile learning and reflection (and times they are a changing)
I have included videos in my theoretical framework about how Twitter and Blogs work. They are not mine - they are by Lee LeFever (so not my voice or my face, sorry :-). I could not have explained these two technologies better myself - hope you find them useful!
I am going to keep the numbers and the table of contents, even though it goes into the idea of blog postings and tagging. I have used tagging extensively in the process, but now the dissertation is going into its final stage, I want it to be readable for those who are outsiders.
I will add something about YouTube in reflection, actually I might have already said something about that in my theoretical framework.
I go with Eric (full speed to a finish), if you can satisfy me on these issues:
Your video reflection on process (in fact all three videos): I like you spoken text but the image is a stumbling block ... Seems too much amateur like. Which is less a problem in the other movie where we can see your head talking (I cannot find it any more) because this makes it extra authentic... But here it is. Same with the video Reflection on progress. I can imagine in the twitter video you'll use specific twittertexts that support your own spoken text - or something even more sophisticated like the Leelefever movies. This will take some time but I would think it is a missed chance if you leave it this way ...
Can you keep the voice and remake the video's???? Mixed images (maybe partly powerpoint), film and our head talking? Using the twitter fountain?
As the rest is in my view a very good example of contemporary dissertation configuration.
In your spoken text: 'Literature suggest' ... Please name which author (to be found back in bibliografy)
I am not sure you've taken my remarks on assessment criteria for reflection by the teachers seriously... I mean where do they come from (related to theory?) and have you thought about if these criteria suit reflection results from mobile learning as well. You might have done so but where can I see that?
Not all 'chapters' have relevant introductary remarks or conclusions or links to the following. I think they should have.
Hi Steef,
thanks for your remarks. I have done the following:
- With regard to video: I have completely remade the reflection part into a nee external module. I have done this with CourseLab a free e-learning authoring tool. This allowed me to combine video with slides to explain certain things (e.g. Twitter updates with explanation). The reflection module is hosted on my own site, as I did not see a way to incorporate it into the blog. Hope you like it! In the spoken parts I am also referring to the authors who have suggested certain things.
- With regard to the assessment criteria: please refer to the theoretical framework of this dissertation. I have rewritten it just a little to make it more visible.
- With regard to conclusions / introductions: I have added linking sentences and introductions to those chapters that needed it. Hope this is what you meant.
Regards,
Frank
Hi Frank, I think you've found a good solution for presentating you reflections... I like them a lot.
The shaking video has now replaced by quiet video of yourself talking (but it's my role to be critical as well so:except the third one where you lean forward and backward a little bit too much) and you use examples and screenshots adequately which is supporting to your talking. In previous feedback I mentioned the fact that in previous versions of your video you seem almost unprepared, sometimes not specific enough. On the other hand the nature of the presentation of your reflection in your first videos was very relaxed and personal (probably because they were done during the process and not afterwards), and this nature is less obvious in the latest versions (probably because you rerecorded after the whole process). The nature of your speech is a bit faster than in earlier videos and you seem to read text which you didn't do before... that could plead in favour of using the sound in parts of earlier video (podcast?) mixed with new video???
Finally a problem with a-synchronous sound and video occurred, anyway on my computer in video 2 and 3. I hope you can improve that easily?
Anyway, You win some, you loose some... it's your choice when you are satisfied.
Hoi Frank,
je presentatie van jouw reflectie is origineel. Of ik de videos nu echt een verbetering vind, vind ik lastig te zeggen.
Ik wil nog wel een paar dingen kwijt. Je geeft een paar keer aan dat je een paar punten hebt onderschat: onder meer de bereidheid van studenten om er helemaal in te duiken en de mate waarin studenten technologische problemen met MOBLOG zouden hebben moeten overwinnen. Op dat punt houdt jouw reflectie op. Ik had graag gezien dat je veel kritischer naar jezelf gekeken zou hebben als onderzoeker. Dit commentaar van mij ligt in het verlengde van mijn eerdere opmerkingen: hoewel je vraagstelling en aanpak zeker origineel en innovatief zijn, vind ik de uitvoering van het onderzoek mager. Daar waar je zegt dat je dingen hebt onderschat, had je in feite die dingen veel meer 'onder controle' moet houden ('onder controle' notebene de belangrijkste termen bij een experiment). Dat had in jouw reflectie uitgediept kunnen worden. Uiteraard kan hierover nog een discussie gevoerd worden.
Maar bovenal wil ik je complimenteren met een goede dissertatie waarin zaken helder, gestructureerd en voldoende onderbouwd zijn beschreven. Ik vind het onderwerp innovatief, van deze tijd en veelbelovend voor de nabije toekomst.
Eric Siebenheller
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