Marsing.

Have just started academic year 2005-06 and all 12 students have their blogs up and running in less than four weeks. They have has a sample of last year's blogs too. This post is to date-stamp this marsing initiative (Harri-Augstein and Webb, 1995). Essentially, I would like students to Monitor a learning event, Analyse it, Record it in their blog, Re-construct it (re-live it), Reflect on it and finally Review the whole event to see to what extent their learning and/or practice has moved on. Then they Spiral on to the next event or activity.

The words Monitor, Analyse, Record, Re-construct, Reflect, Review and Spiral make MARRRRS or in verb terms "marsing". It will be interesting to see how Self-Managed Learners cope with this idea in their project work.