I have asked the students in our Outdoor Education & Leadership course to reflect on their experiences throughout the semester. Journaling is one of the tools we used in the reflection process. This semester, for the first time, we included three phases of journaling:
1) Phase 1: Writing in journals privately and only sharing them with the instructor;
2) Phase 2: Writing responses to guided journal questions and posting them on a class Blackboard so colleagues within the course could also view them; and,
3) Phase 3: Writing reflective responses to guided journal questions and posting them to a public blog.
I look forward to reading blog postings and would be happy to hear any thoughts from others who may have encouraged public blog postings as part of a course assignment!
