The assignment to write rich reflections on Doug Belshaw’s book, The Essentials Elements of Digital Literacies and post them in the book’s wiki was a new challenge. I wrote my reflection of each chapter as I read it. Some may have read the entire book and then gone back and reflected. I felt that writing as I read allowed me to be most honest about that particular moment.
Getting the text into the wiki was an additional challenge. I used Word to type my notes and then wordpress blog post draft mode to write the reflection. I copied and pasted my draft post into the wiki and then used the cheatsheet provided by Chris to format. With some help from a classmate I managed to post some pictures in the wiki, but only the blog post included the linked video. I regret that I cannot locate the tweet or email to credit and thank my classmate and my memory is faulty (perhaps Hailey??).
I think Chris gave us this assignment not only so we could benefit from reading the book, but to expand our own digital literacy and get us thinking about the use of wikis in reflective writing. Getting to participate in the Google Hangout with Doug Belshaw was fantastic.
