Transcript Personal Leadership 1a Block 6 Who am I in relation to my

Conference
Mediawijs mediarijk
“What’s in it for me”
Jan. 22nd 2015
International Business and Management Studies
(IBMS Eindhoven)
Blogging in Higher Education: “Logical Part of the
Personal Leadership Programme”
Gerard Sijben, Theo Terwee, Richard Boon, John Sakwe
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Personal Leadership (Competence 9)
To determine your direction …
To ignite your
ambition …
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Outline of the PL-Programme
Personal Leadership @IBMS:
• Level 1: “Who am I in my study at IBMS?”
• Level 2: “Who am I in my internship?”
• Level 3: “Who am I in my career after
graduation at IBMS?”
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PL-Programme Level 1
1a
“Who am I in relation to studying at IBMS?”
1b
“Who am I in relation to myself at IBMS?”
1c
“Who am I in relation to working in project
teams at IBMS?”
1d
“Who am I in relation to working in multicultural
project teams at IBMS?”
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Building Personal Leadership
• Question for you:
What are important characteristics
and skills of our future leaders and
managers?
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Building Personal Leadership
“Being critical to your and other students’
work, study and personal success is
building your PL”.
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“Old school habits”
Students handed in their (hard copy) portfolio reflection
report at the end of a certain period
However:
• no feedback from peers
• tutors (SLB) are too less involved
• not critical enough
• doubts about honest self-reflection
• students are difficult to follow when abroad
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Personal Branding: Challenge
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Personal Development Blog (PDB)
Short for Web-log:
• “A blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly online
accessible personal journal/diary;
• A PDBlog reflects personality, experiences (positive &
negative) and the personal development of the author
centred around personal objectives highlighted in the
poster!
• Comments will be posted by peers and your tutor.”
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IBMS Foundation Year set-up (1)
• Clear structure: about-page, poster presentation
per period and blog page
• Posts on a weekly basis
• Comments on weekly basis as well
• Posts include reflections on personal objectives
• Personal objectives are derived from exercises
made during PL-workshops
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IBMS Foundation Year set-up (2)
• Stick to “Netiquette”
• Invite “trustful” students and your tutor (SLB’er) to
assure a safe blogging environment
• Portfolio reflection should include everything and
ends with an overall reflection report (based on
guiding questions
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Assessment of the PL-Programme
• Objective 1 and 2: assessment
of poster presentation
• Objective 3 and 4: assessment
of portfolio reflection
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Blog-structure
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Example About page
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Example Poster
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Example Poster
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Example Blog-post
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Example Blog-post
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Internal Evaluation after one
semester
• Find common ground in the team
– workload tutors, safe environment for students, appraisal
versus coaching
• Instruction guidelines don’t work
– instructions on the spot in computer lab (some students
are digitally behind)
• Blog-posts did start after a last instruction meeting
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Evaluation after 9 weeks
• Quality of posts differs
• Commenting on posts limited
– small vocabulary, moulding sophisticated answers,
overseeing implications of others’ actions from different
cultural backgrounds
• Increase and decrease of posts and comments
before and after assessments (“posts waves”).
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Discussion….
• How should we internalise the habits of sensible
and professional blogging (posting and
commenting) to create a dynamic (interactive)
and effective (learning outcomes) professional
“Blogging” environment?
• Added value of Blogging for your students?
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ICT in Higher Education?
• Blog: Tool or Starting point?
• Assessment by whom? Clear assessment
criteria are of vital importance!
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Thank You!
Gerard Sijben & Theo Terwee
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