Assessment Title: Blog and Learning Reflections
Task Description
This is an INDIVIDUAL assessment that consists of three components:
1. Blog detailing your weekly activities and learning (multi-media)
2. Reflective report, which details your learning journey and explicitly cross-references the blog (written)
3. Self- and Peer-Assessment of groups from assessment 2 (online questionnaire)
Weekly blog:
Blogs are a useful tool for yourself to keep track of activities you have carried out, as well as nurture your writing and reflection skills. When published, blogs can also become powerful communication tools that enable you to share your experiences and learning with your stakeholders and the wider community. This assessment enables you to practice your practical blogging skills with real blogging software.
For this assessment, you are required to regularly record your weekly activities in the form of a blog and to submit the blog (or the web link to the relevant blogging website) as part of assessment 3. Blog entries need to be stamped and demonstrate regular engagement with the blogging software throughout the term. Students who do not engage with regular blogging activity and attempt to retrospectively write up their thoughts in one go at the end of term will lose out on important marks.
You should make sure your blog entries are reflective in nature, rather than merely describing the activities you have carried out – a template will be provided in Moodle to help you with this and on-campus students will be encouraged to use some of the class time to record their reflections. The fact that you are recording your activities and learning on a weekly basis helps you develop your group report (assessment 2) as well as the reflective report (assessment 3).
You are strongly encouraged to add photographs, videos, or other supporting material that may help you reflect. There is a blogging facility in Moodle, which you can use, or you may use any professional external blogging service, such as WordPress or Blogger. It is expected that entries are written at least once a week and each entry should be no shorter than 100 words. There are no prescribed maximum of entries or words per entry as many students have found this useful learning exercise that they want to use to their full potential.
The blog component of assessment is a pass-fail activity and markers will check for completeness, suitability as a communication tool, and reference material for your reflective report. However, please note that you will not receive detailed written feedback about the blog content.
Reflective report:
While the blog is built throughout the term, the reflective report is to be developed towards the end of the term, as it requires you to present a critical self-analysis and reflection of your learning as a result of experiencing Design Thinking and entrepreneurial activity within this unit. The self-analysis and reflection must consider your personal development, as well as the development of your knowledge of Design Thinking and entrepreneurship topics. As a conclusion, students are to develop an action plan of key events and activities that they undertake over the next 6 months to acquire any knowledge, skills and behaviors identified as requiring development.
The reflective report should be submitted to a Word document with a length of 2,500 words (+/- 10%), excluding preliminaries, tables, figures and references. Your reflective report should make reference to appropriate academic literature and theory in a critical way. Moreover, the report it MUST make explicit reference to appropriate evidence in your blog using a clear cross-reference system. The reflective report should make use of at least 10 high-quality references (APA style).
Self- and Peer-Assessment (SPA):
You are required to fill in an online questionnaire, evaluating yourself and the peers you worked with for assessment 2 according to various team working criteria. This SPA questionnaire will be open for two weeks at the end of term and you will receive email communication about it. You are required to provide candid and fair evaluations of yourself and your group mates and – in controversial cases – you may be required to provide additional evidence to back up your evaluations. Please note that there is NO extension to the cut-off point for this SPA and the completion is NOT possible – students who fail to fill in the SPA by the given deadline will receive a mark of 0 (zero) for this component of assessment 3.
Assessment Due Date Week 12 Friday (06-Oct-2017) 11:45 AM AEST
Return Date to Students Results and feedback will be available in Moodle on certification date.

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