Reflective writing
This is the first of three peer-review workshops in this module. It involves using peer-review software in a different area of the VLE. Please note you will be assessing (peer-reviewing) each other, so your participation within the stated time-frame is essential.
Note on technology: peer-review workshop is a built in function of Moodle which is the virtual learning environment (VLE) platform we use. Other VLEs have similar functions so this is something you can (or perhaps already do) use with your students.
About Peer Review workshops in this module
All Peer review workshops in this module have three ‘phases’:
- In phase 1 (‘submission’) you create a written piece and upload it to the workshop for review by your peers (two weeks for this phase)
- In phase 2 (‘assessment’) you review work written by other participants, and give them constructive feedback, using a set of assessment criteria (two weeks for this phase)
- In phase 3 (‘closed’) you see the feedback you got from others on your work, and reflect on it - usually by capturing some thoughts in your reflective workbook
About this Peer Review workshop activity
In this activity you will do phase 1. For this first peer-review activity we would like you to reflect on your experiences in the activities on plagiarism (particularly activity 2 - the plagiarism quiz and activity 3 - the Turnitin activity)
You will give feedback to others and later you will be able to read the comments that others made on your own analysis and reflect on any points they raised.
Download the framework for reflective analysis (which is modelled on Table 1 in ‘Reflective writing and a framework for analysis’, the second Essential reading you looked at earlier).
Consider your experience of doing the quiz and the Turnitin activity from different perspectives and use the framework to write a short reflective piece of no more than 500 words about it. Remember to save it to your computer. You will upload this document for peer review.
Make sure that you describe the experience as briefly as possible – as a rough guide your ‘description of the experience’ should be less than 75 words. This then leaves you around 425 words for reflection. If this is your first attempt at reflective writing, please don’t worry: as you work through the module there will be many opportunities to develop your reflection and reflective writing skills.
Go to Peer review workshop 1: reflective writing activity to upload your completed reflection.
Outcome: By the time you complete phase 3 of this workshop, you will have learnt how to analyse reflective writing and, through the peer-review element of this activity, you will have learnt how to improve your own reflective writing. You will also gain experience of an approach to collaborative working that can be delivered in a virtual learning environment.
