Reflecting on group discussions for professional learning: annotating videoclips with voice annotations

This paper considers how multimedia communications technologies can support reflective learning by distributed professionals, following their participation in group tasks. In particular, the paper reports on the uses made by collaborating practitioners of stored voice messages, called voice annotations. The annotations have been used by learning technology professionals to create and share reflections on group processes. The groups were filmed taking part in discussions from which critical incidents, e.g., of negotiation have been selected and presented back to the group members as digital videoclips. Voice annotations have been used by the participants to offer reflections upon the clips and these annotated clips are now being shared online among this community. Analysis of the observational and verbal protocol data from this study is revealing the value of these rich representations for reflective learning from group practices.