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log detailing your weekly activities and learning (multi-media)

Reflective report, which details your learning journey and explicitly cross-references the blog (written)

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 to 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.

For this assessment, you are required to regularly record your weekly activities in the form of a blog.Blog entries need to be time stamped and demonstrate regular engagement with the Moodle blogging tool THROUGHOUT the term. Students who do not engage with the 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 arereﬂectivein 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, images, videos or other supporting material that may help you reﬂect. There is no prescribed maximum of entries or words per entry as experience showed that many students ﬁnd this a useful learning exercise that they want to utilise to its full potential. However, the absoluteminimum is 8 time-stamped entries spread across the term. It is best to write at least one entry per week and each entry should be no shorter than 150 words.

The blog component of assessment 3 is part of the assessment requirements and markers will check it 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 acritical self-analysis and reﬂection of your learningas a result of experiencing Design Thinking activity within this unit. The self-analysis and reﬂection must consider yourpersonal development, as well as thedevelopment of your knowledgeof Design Thinking topics. As a conclusion, students are to develop an actionplan of key events and activitiesthat they can undertake over the next 6 months to acquire any knowledge, skills and behaviours identiﬁed as requiring development.
The reﬂective report should be submitted as a Word document with a length of2,500 words (+/- 10%), excluding preliminaries, tables, ﬁgures and references. Your reﬂective report must make reference to appropriate academic literature and theory in a critical way. Moreover, the report MUST explicitly reference appropriate evidence in your blog using a clear cross-reference system. The reﬂective report must make use ofat 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 thatthere is NO extension to the cut-oﬀ point for this SPAquestionnaire and late 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.

What if I have enrolled late or forgotten to blog one week?Make sure you catch up by posting multiple entries the following week. HOWEVER, please not that it is not acceptable to leave all blogs until the final week - it has to be evident that the blog was built on a regular basis.

What if I don't blog - can I submit a word document with all my blogs at the end?No, please check marking criteria.

Can I use Twitter?Since the assessment requires you to not write entries of less than 150 words per post (see assessment requirements), Twitter as a microblogging site may not be as suitable for the description and reflection you are meant to do for this unit. So, the answer is: no.

Can I add other media?Yes, please! You are encouraged to do this to support your written comments!

How can I submit my blog for assessment?The Moodle blog automatically shows up in the Gradebook for markers to look at. It is important you actually submit each of your blog entries, so that they can be timestamped, but there is no need to do anything else to .

What are 'preliminaries'?Everything you have to include in a report before the first real section of the report starts; this may include: title page, contacts of project team members, executive summary, table of contents, acknowledgements, etc.

What is a report and what does it look like?Please make use of the ALC for support on how to prepare for and write a report:https://www.cqu.edu.au/student-life/services-and-facilities/academic-learning-centre

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an we have sub-headings or a detailed structure to use for our report?Yes, a report typically follows this structure: title page, Table of Contents, Executive Summary, Main Body, Reference list, Appendices.

Can we have sub-headings in the Executive Summary?Yes, definitely.

Will anyone other than the markers see the assignment?Yes: Some blogs/reports may be shown to future cohorts. In addition, the teaching team may wish to use your blogs/reports as data for research projects - all blogs/reports will be fully anonymised and only the written material itself (not the details of the students) will be utilised as data. Should you wish for your work to not be considered as part of any future research projects, please email the unit co-ordinator.

How can we create a weekly blog?Please use the blogging facility in Moodle. Please do NOT create a blog on a common blogging website.

Can we edit earlier blog posts? How often can we edit them?It is recommended you do NOT EDIT your blog posts. It is possible to edit, but this is not advisable - it is better to write another blog entry detailing what you would change and why. This is important so that your earlier reflection remains intact - remember that the blog is not about writing perfect sentences, but it is about recording your thoughts and feelings at the time (like a diary). If you were writing a diary, you would not go back and make edits either.

What is CROSS-REFERENCING? How does it work?It is a note in your own work that points the reader to another bit of text in your own work. For example, "See appendix 1" is a cross-reference to tell the reader to look into appendix 1 - if you do not understand this word, then it may be useful to simply google it as explanations are widely available. In your report, you are cross-referencing your blog, which means you are telling the reader at various points in your report to look at specific blog entries. This is NOT a citation or a literature reference, and therefore it is NOT available in the APA style guide. You need to figure out a way of clearly cross-referencing your blog but how you do this is up to you. I am recommending you use a simple format like the one I emailed you all in week 11: (see blog entry no. X, DD/MM/YYY). You are allowed to place your blog into your reference list but if you read the unit profile you will know that there is NO requirement to do so.

What is the prescribed structure for the report?There is no prescribed structure (apart from the usual report requirements, i.e. exec summary, TOC, introduction, conclusion, etc.) - you can choose a structure that best suits your reflection but please make sure you address all the requirements of the assessment task. The main things you need to include are: (1) critical self-analysis and reflection on personal development, (2) critical self-analysis and reflection on knowledge development, and (3) action plan. This is what the unit profile says - you may want to consider a structure along those lines to ensure you cover all required elements. Please note: you do not have to reflect on everything we did in this unit; instead, it is recommended you prioritise your reflection and choose only some of your personal main experiences/learning

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Self Analysis and Reflection Plan
Contents
Introduction	4
Critical self analysis and reflection on personal development	4
Critical self analysis on knowledge development	8
Conclusion	9
References	11
Executive summary
The report is about the design thinking approach implementation. This is a personal reflection report that illustrates how I have gained knowledge and develop my personality by familiarising with the design thinking concept. The report consists of two sections that are personality development and knowledge development. I have developed certain personality traits in me such as visionary ability, holistic approach, care and empathy, participative approach, good interpersonal communication, team work traits, tolerance towards ambiguity etc. The personality development assists me to utilise this concept for innovation. Also, I have developed knowledge about the steps of design thinking and role of design thinking for people and organization. Overall, the design thinking approach is found crucial to develop new products and to gain competitiveness for the organization. 
 Introduction
The report is about the activities of design thinking. The matters I have assimilated in different workshops are illustrated for this purpose. In week one I have learnt about innovation and the process of innovation. In the week two, I have become familiar with the successful ideas creation such as patience and learning to foster ideas. To implement the design thinking traits such as being a good observer and experimental nature assists to foster ideas.  In the week four, the problem resolution and alternative consideration is found very useful for me. In the week five I have come across how to promote creativity with different things. In week six, I came to know that how to add value to a product and how a customers can be benefitted by it. Therefore, knowledge such as needs and wants of customers is found crucial to offer customized solution to them and make better products and services. 
In week seven I understood that moral outlining should be considered and relevance of group decision making and group functioning together. In the week eight, configuration thinking is taught and it assists me to understand the relevance of it. In week nine, testing and ideas relevance are explored to identify the business opportunities. The role of empathy and experimentation to drive the innovation is well grasped by me in week 11. 
Design thinking activities
Emphasize
I understand that empathic understand of the problem should be addressed first. It requires that consulting expert must be present to know the areas of concern by observation, engagement and empathy with people. It requires gaining the motivations and experiences of others as well as having a deep knowledge of physical surrounding environment to gain the deeper understanding of the issue. 
Define 
The second step is to define the problem such as teenage girls need nutritious products to be healthy. In this step, functions, features and other elements of the products or services should be considered. Questions should be asked about how we can develop a better product or service to the people. 
Ideate
The third step is ideate that refers to generating the new ideas. The alternative ways to view the issue is considered in this step. I learnt the role of various ideation techniques such as the brain write, brainstorm, SCAMPER and worst possible idea. These techniques assist in stimulating the free thinking they expand the space of problems. Therefore I learnt that as many ideas as I can get should be considered in this step.
Prototype 
 The next step is prototyping that requires producing a number of scaled down and inexpensive version of the solution of the problem. The prototype should be shared and tested and in this experimental phase the aim should be to identify the best possible alternative. The solutions are implemented within each prototype and investigated for acceptance. The constraints found in experimentation of these prototypes assist to recognise the best possible solution. 
Test 
The next step is test the complete product. This is the final step and it requires that consistent experimentation with the final design should be implemented. 
Learning from steps
Therefore substantial information should be gained for this purpose to develop the best possible understanding of user’s needs and problems encountered in the development of products and services. The prototyping step assists in gaining knowledge that how the customers can behave, think and feel when they use the product. The test step assists me to know more about how users behave, view and use the product. 
Critical self analysis and reflection on personal development
Strengths and weaknesses
I have learnt the design thinking concept and characteristics.

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