- honesty
- bring ideas, faults and inspirations to life
- use reflective writing as a tool for improvement
- write thoughts and feelings down right away --> helps bring ideas out
- go back a few days later and review --> look at the good and the bad
- industry is looking for reflective individuals
Podcast 13 - Sue Thomson, Course Director FdA Fashion Tech.
- engage as soon as the course begins
- re-organize the info. that has been received, and make it into something that is understandable to yourself
- being reflective improves problem solving abilities -> beneficial for the workplace/ and careers
- everything in a sketchbook or journal should have a purpose
- reflective writing moves you to a higher level of understanding
- carry a small notepad and pen with you everywhere --> it allows for you to be able to spontaneously put down your thoughts or random ideas
Podcast 14 - heather Pickard, Director of Programmes BA(hons) Fashion Management
- step back from the demands of the curriculum and look at your own personal skills and think about how they can be applied in the future (workplace)
- know your strengths and weaknesses, SWOT Analysis is a good starting point
- Dissertation --> reflect on the whole process from beginning to end (on-going)
- RW is a continuous process --> MUST HAVE THOUGHT & CONTEXT to it
Podcast 15 - Darren Raven, Senior Lecturer FdA Design for Graphic Comm.
- Keep a NOTEBOOK & PHOTOBOOK --> very helpful to review and reflect on for future reference.
- good opportunity to vent with any frustrations or struggles --> try to look for and acknowledge common patterns and issues that arise ***
- document in way that suits you
- 5W's & HOW --> enables deeper insight
- you can use symbols, images etc...
- enables you to capture a single experience
Podcast 16 - Catherine Smith, Senior Lecturer School of Graphic Design
-talk about your work --> influences, what you made & the process of making it
**ALL ABOUT ME AS A FASHION DESIGNER**
- be able to separate other personal feeling that are unrelated to the current project
- RW can be subjective, does not need a beginning,middle and end
- Look at a piece of paper for writing, as another person
- explain processes, justify what you've made
- don't write for anyone else
- experiment with different ways of writing (informality is great!!)
- make it visually interesting...
**** Podcast 17 **** - Alison James, Head of Teaching & Learning @ LCF (This podcast I found to be the most helpful. Alison James, is very knowledgeable, and I found that all the tips she was sharing was very relevant and her delivery of the information was very inspiring as well)
- it is more about who you are while creating or doing a project rather than what the project actually is
- RW is about encapsulating change and the factors involved in that change
- "What have a I got out of a certain experience?"
- "This is what I've done, how has it affected me?, Where am I going?"
- RW is the process of sense making
- Everyone has a different journey, this can include free-writing, images, films, sounds, music...etc...
- DOUBLE ENTRY REFLECTIVE JOURNAL --> one side is the INITIAL ENTRY and then the other side is the REFLECTION ENTRY (about the process, at a later date)
- Drawing can be another reflective process --> can be more truthful
Podcast 18 - Lucy Parfitt, Student FdA Beauty & Health
(Approaches to RW)
- write down key words or feelings from an experience
**reflection teaches you how you learn, what methods are the most effective for you personally**
- have strategies and plans to work through different teaching methods
- LISTS --> make a story around the list of words, helps break the information down
Podcast 19 - Jennifer Streeting, Student FdA Beauty & Health
- analyze your processes, find the strengths & weaknesses
- "what is the point?"(...I can relate)
- RW can be a stress release from all the pressure
- keep notes constantly
- be aware of how certain situations affect you
- RW is useful to go back and see your actual progression --> can be really positive and motivating
Podcast 20 - Jane McIver, Student BA(hons) Fashion Management
(didn't get much out of this particular podcast...quite boring and repetitive, nothing profound was said)
- emotional release
- allows you to review your progression
- a way of evaluating your work
- HONESTY...again
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