The assumption that a BLOG (public reflection) can replace private reflection is very questionable. Group reflection works well in the discussion forums, but I still find it amazing that Canvas has no personal journalling tool. The courses I run have reflection at the centre of the learning process. Many of the students would like to be able to save their journals, but I have not find a way to download specific discussions. So I went for the group discussion option, which is working remarkably well, the students and tutors are having fluent conversations that could be described as a continuous asynchronous tutorial. This consideration also applied to the idea of using a collaborative document (leaving aside some students resistance to using Google). The students we have are not especially computer literate, (a couple could even be described as "luddites and proud!") and for this reason I felt the blog option might be asking too much. I wanted the reflection process to be continuous, and function as a kind of co-reflection where the tutor was always able to access what was being written, and engage with the student, for this reason the assignment option wasn't quite right.
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