What is reflection?

Today, Mr. Evans had shared two links to us that we could use later in our reflections. These two links both contain ideas that could be used for reflections.

The first link was about the sketchbooks of artists and how it is beneficial to people if they use it.

This link was about an interview between the author and the artist Julia Rothman. The first question asked was about whether an artist's sketchbook bespeak the fact that either the success of an artist is based on their "genius talents" and if it is based on practice alone, compared to whether if it is the mix of both. For this question Julia Rothman answered that an artist's sketchbook actually shows that is the mix of both an artist's "genius talents" and them practicing over and over again. She says that sketchbooks are full of evidence of the artist spending lots of time practicing for their work to come out like they expected. Then she states that work in the sketchbooks would not be possible with practice alone, it also involves the creative and the talents of the artists. Therefore, she agrees that it is a mix of both options. There were two questions that followed in this interview. They were mainly about how sketchbooks would be able to contain both the talents of the person and his/her efforts and practices. To conclude, sketchbooks can be very useful in reflections. As the link says, sketchbooks contain both the effort of the individual and also the creations of that person. Therefore, when reflecting it would not only show your work, but it would also show all your inspirations and creations that have led you the the final creations.
The second link was about how an artist's notebook is a huge collection of the person's thoughts and efforts.

Notebooks can be a good reflection tool as well. Notebooks reflects a person's work and their ideas through the whole process of making the final creations. It would greatly show that the person did the work and put effort in making the product. Therefore it would be a great reflection tool if used to explain the process of making the product.

In this lesson, we also investigated the different types of writing for reflections. They were, Descriptive, Personal, and Reflective writing.

I used my experience of moving from Shenzhen to Nanchang in the past, to write the three types of reflection. From this practice, I had learned the different ways to reflect and what ways I could choose to write in my reflections in the future. These different styles of writing can be used in different ways. Such as, if it is a reflection of the facts of a performance the descriptive writing style would be used. If the reflection is about reflecting on personal emotions and feelings the personal writing style would be used. Lastly, for reflecting how a performance impacts on you personally, then the reflecting writing style would be used. Therefore, there are many ways where these different writing styles could be used to reflect.
Finally, in the lessons we also looked at the different medias we could use to reflect.
This was the handout we looked at:

These media widens the range of media that can be used for reflections that I know before I looked at the handout. All these different ways of reflection are creative and can be inspirational comparing to the normal type of reflections with only text involved.
After this lesson, I had learned the different ways to reflect. This would help me with the reflections I would have to do in the future.