What Are Skills and Topics in Reflectivity?

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Reflectivity provides you with a possibility to choose or create skills and topics that you want to work on and reflect. Skills describe the solutions teachers are working on in their classrooms. There can be many Skills under one Topic. 

Select a skill

You can get inspiration to choose skills that you would like to work on from the Most active and New boards. Change the proposed sets of skills by selecting a different topic from the drop-down menu at the top left corner.

You can also create a skill yourself. To add a new topic and skills to work on, click on the “+” button on the My skills board and enter the topic name. You can either choose a topic and a skill from suggested options or write your own.

Start working on a skill

To activate a skill, select it on either board, click on "You" and choose where would you like to see yourself in a month and which steps are you going to take to get there. You can work on up to three skills at a time. 

Check-in screen

Once you start working on a skill, it is important to have a possibility to check in with yourself on your progress. You can adjust your mood towards your work and, optionally, dive deeper with a written reflection. To reflect on a skill, choose it on either board, сlick on "You" tile, select "Check-in" at the top right corner of your screen, choose your desired state in one month, write a reflection, optionally add a video evidence, choose with whom you'd like to share it with, and select your next step. 

Skill page

Here you can see all the activity of the particular community of the skill - updates selected specifically for you, plans of future work, reflections and videos made by you or shared with you. You can boost or comment any type of activity. 

Skill history

You can check out the history of your work on the skill by selecting the three dots next to it.
  

If you added reflections to your topic, you can view, share, and edit them from the history page by clicking on the "View" next to it. 

Sharing a reflection

You can start a discussion with a colleague about your written and video reflections. To do so, when reflecting, choose either "Share with a community" option or directly share it with any of the colleagues that you'd like. If you share it with Community, you can unshare it later if you wish. 

You can also share a reflection by clicking on the tile "You" in the skill and choosing a reflection which you would like to share. Then, click the share arrow and choose who you would like to share with directly. You can also publicly share reflections with your whole organisation by selecting "Community" button.

Once you have shared your reflection, a discussion board will open on the right side of it. You and anyone you have shared your reflection with can view and leave comments. You can see with whom exactly you shared your reflection selecting a person icon. Please be informed, that if you have included video evidence in your reflection, the video will be visible to the person that you have shared it with only in the reflection itself. The video evidence will not appear in their Shared with Me Videos feed unless you share it with them separately from your reflection. If you want to comment a reflection that was shared with you, you will need to first join the community if you haven't done this yet.

You can access all of your reflections, discussions, and reflections that were shared with you in Reflections tab from the sidebar. 

Stop working on a skill 

You can temporarely pause working on a skill from My skills board by clicking on three dots next to it and selecting "Stop working". This skill stays on My skills board and you can restart working on it by selecting this skill and clicking on "Start now". 

Finish working on a skill

When you are done working on a skill, choose it in the "My skills" board, select three dots next to it and press "Leave this skill". After the confirmation, you will leave this skill. You can rejoin it later from Most active or New boards. 

You can work on up to three skills simultaneously. If you would like to start working on a new skill, but you already have 3 active ones, you will be prompted to choose which skill you wish to leave before activating a new one. After leaving one of the three skills, a screen will open for you to choose your future state for the new skill.