Description and initial reflection: For me, writing a descriptive account of my day was not helpful.By describing everything that happened and the way I felt during the day did not actually provoke much reflection for learning. Reading back over what I had written made me realise that I do not take in a lot of what is going on around me, I seem to just focus on what I am doing and how I'm feeling. I decided to include my intial reflection with my descriptive account as I wanted to make an account of my emotions as events were unfolding.
List: Listing out the events of my day provoked alot of new thinking. Each event that I had listed then sparked a new thought process about how I was feeling, why I was feeling that way and also how I could have changed that. Over two days I made several lists entitled
- events
- thoughts and feelings before/during/after event
- why I was feeling that way
- what worked well
- How can I be more productive tomorrow
- How will this help me tomorrow
Evaluation: evaluating my day did help me to see where I went wrong and how I could have changed a situation but also where I thought other people could have made better decisions. I feel like when I was list making I was also evaluating my day but in a different format.
Graphs/Charts/Diagrams: Initially I wasn't sure how to record my day as a graph so I did a little bit of research and read through some of My life in Graphs: a guided journal, Knock Knock and a few blogs on the internet about keeping a journal of diagrams etc. I found a really interesting document by Valerie Taylor- Haslip, health sciences and she kept diagrams and graphs concerning her students, one entitled 'Comparison of students level of reflection, exam grades and clinical performance. After reading this, I decided to base my graph on comparing how I would go about my day before I started learning about reflection and writing a journal and how I am now. It was quite hard to do as I did not have any facts or figures to put on the graph however it did make me discover that since starting on this course I am far more aware of how people act around me and I also think about how I unconciously intervene in a situation.
what if? I found this way of journal writing really difficult. I could not decide what I would do if a situation changed. It did test my brain though! It took me ages to think about myself in certain situations like what I would do if someone passed out on stage. I thought about what I would do if the music skipped etc and I found those 'what if' situations really easy to deal with in my head. A great thought provoking way of journal writing!
Another View: Writing my journal from someone elses point of view was quite tough. I ended up asking my flat mate to help me out and wrote my journal from her eyes. It was suprising how she viewed my day and how she thought I was feeling. This was a really big eye opener for me as I saw myself as others saw me and not how I thought I was being portrayed.
From doing this task I feel that I will carry on writing my journal by mixing lists and evaluation as these seem to be the most beneficial to my learning.
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