Authentic and principled reflective thinkers know how to make meaning across their experiences and use their emerging understandings to advance their learning. This session explores the potential of rethinking pedagogy given Web 2.0 technologies which allow us to question, re-imagine, and leverage the roles of audience, voice, and identity in fostering students' reflective practice. Following discussion of relevant literature across multiple fields, the presenters will share both examples of student "multimodal" reflective practice and evaluative rubrics used to assess their work and growth.

Additionally, participants will experience multiple Web 2.0 tools (including but not limited to blogging and vlogging) which foster reflective thinking. They will participate in discussions regarding how best to elicit, support, and evaluate reflection within electronic portfolios. In addition, participants will be given prompt material which they may alter to suit their own teaching needs, while keeping the evaluative strategies intact. This will allow them to understand, demonstrate, and recognize appropriate self-evaluative strategies about their students' reflective practice and how this may be useful in their own teaching and learning settings. Participants will have the chance to "play" and use model rubrics to evaluate several modalities of exemplars housing students reflection within electronic portfolios.

Examining the support for reflective practice in both undergraduate and graduate students assists in illuminating potential for use with all faculty in an important way: namely, that faculty can incorporate reflective practice for their own students in a diversity of fields and possibly utilize ePortfolio as the vehicle for housing reflective practice across several modalities. The initial focus of this session will be on teacher education examples but connections will be made across different disciplines for the participants. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops as hands-on exploration will include design and application of assessment rubrics and engagement with the web 2.0 tools.
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Location:	3080 Torgersen Hall
Price:	free - registration requested
Sponsor:	Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research
Contact:	Eddie Watson edwatson@vt.edu (540) 231-7930
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