Evaluating the Impact of Blogging on Reflective Practice

The orientation to students was held the other day. Surprisingly none of the students except for one had heard of or used Blogs, hence, it will be interesting to see how this technology takes hold for the students. The students were accepting of the split between blogging group and journal (manual group). Once students are aligned to their groups then the orientation to the technology can take place. I had an idea that we can run the focus groups as part of the action research through the Graduate School of Business' StratCom Laboratory. Students in the Blog and Journal group can answer a series of questions around a table with 12 terminals. Each terminal is connected to a central screen where people can type in their answers. It is confidential so no one knows who has said what. This may provide for more anonmymous and forthcoming results from the groups. It will be good to also have instructors undergo a session too to capture their feedback on the process. We will need to identify the questions we want to ask the focus groups to gain a sense of the two models. What will be interesting is to see if the journalling group naturally move beyond independent journalling to include peers to expand their understanding....