Research in Week 1 Reflection

For my journal reflections I will be using the Peter Pappas's The Reflective Student: A Taxonomy of Reflection.

Remembering
Week 1 was a busy week! I am very thankfully Dr. Weaver opened the course early as this gave me a head start on creating my journal, meeting with the librarian, coming up with the literature review topic, and mapping out what a literature review is.

Understanding
Having 60 annotated bibliographies is stressful, however, I understand the reason we are gathering so many resources as it will help provide a sound literature review that contains a variety of peer-review research. It is also a good exercise in how to properly cite the article and write an annotated bibliography. I have written a couple of literature reviews in previous courses and I see my writing continuing to improve with each literature review I write. I also find myself understanding the IDT field better as I read more and more research and topics within it.

Application
Knowing how to properly find research, synthesize the information, and write a paper is a critical skill I will need for my dissertation. I will also need these skills for any articles I want to publish in the future.

Analysis
Dr. Dennis introduced me to new databases I had not looked at yet. This has helped me in finding better keywords and articles that are between five and ten years old. I find that as I read one article I find one to two additional articles to read from the reference page in my first article.
 
Evaluation
Waiting until Thursday to start reading and writing my annotated bibliographies was a poor choice and I paid for it on Saturday. I used articles in my previous course that were from the late 1990's and early 2000's and by taking this course have found newer research.

Creation
Moving forward I am spending as much as I can on Sunday to get ahead start on the second part of my annotated bibliographies followed by completing at least five each day morning forward. Finding articles, reading, and synthesizing them takes a great deal of time for me.

Personal Insights
I've found about 50 peer-review articles so far about various aspects of the Cognitive Approach to Instructional Design for Multimedia Learning and my only concern is there isn't a lot of current research. I was able to find a couple of articles from 2014 and 2015, however within these articles their references were from the early to late 2000's. Is this topic not as relevant anymore? I know as a professor and a designer there is still a lacking of understanding of what is an effective instructional multimedia piece and how it would be designed/created. Clearly I am stressed about finishing up the 60 annotated bibliographies. I woke up at 1AM yesterday and went downstairs and started to work thinking they were due any moment and that I didn't have them done. Once my brain turned on I realized I still had almost a full 22 hours left to complete the first part and went back to bed.



Pappas, P. (2010, January 5). The Reflective Student: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part 2). Retrieved from http://www.peterpappas.com/2010/01/reflective-student-taxonomy-reflection-.html