8 Key features:
- Create as many blogs as you like to record your reflections, and explore your goals and aspirations
- It is your private online space and you can control who can read any of your blog entries.
- Write about anything you like, but to maximise the benefit to your personal development it is useful to reflect on your studies, employment or career plans, and relevant life experiences.
- Blogs can be archived as a record. Review and organise your reflections by tagging them using standard categories (such as academic and employment related skills) or define some of your own categories.
- Learn from others: share individual blogs with other people at the University - for instance other students on your course, or your tutor - and elicit comments/feedback from them.
- You can be invited to view other people's blogs and provide comments/feedback to them.
- Access information on your assessment performance and use this to focus refection on your achievements and challenges.
- Prompts - periodicallly you may be prompted to reflect on an aspect of your learning at Lancaster
Be creative. How you use MyPlace to support your own personal development is very much up to you. http://myplace.lancs.ac.uk
