Contributions to Your Learning and the Learning Community

My collaboration group for both 5303 and 5305 included Angela Deschner, Brenda Decuir, Kacie Guidry, and Priya Rane. We greatly benefitted from dual collaboration because we were able to construct our ideas and content with each course and each other’s perspectives in mind. The sharing of ideas and skills created a beautiful collaborative space where we each fostered growth in each other. I am very grateful to this group of ladies for being so supportive and sharp. To learn more about how we collaborated, please visit our collaboration document linked at the bottom of this page.

In addition to working so closely with my collaboration group, I regularly worked directly with Dr. H on my assignments. He provided valuable insight on a number of my projects and I look forward to working with him, and my other professors, more in the future.

For 5303, I would give myself a score of 82/100 for my self-assessment. I believe that my ability to construct the technical elements of my ePortfolio and assist my group members in their construction has been working thus far. I am fortunate to do a lot of website building with my job, and I was grateful that I could be useful in sharing my knowledge with my group. An area of growth I see for myself would definitely be the timeliness of my discussion posts. I tended to view the discussion posts as less important to the actual assignments, but when I did complete my posts and replies, I found them very helpful.

For 5305, I would give myself a score of 42/50 for my self-assessment. I took a larger leadership role when it came to components of this course, including providing my group members with early iterations of my work and even a mini run through of how I produce videos through Canva (the video is viewable on our collaboration document below). My timeliness for discussion posts was better in this course, however it could still be improved upon.

I believe I have met all of the key contributions of reflection, revisions, collaboration, and meeting deadlines for both courses, and the only supporting contribution I feel I failed to meet was ensuring that my posts were done in a timely fashion. My goal for upcoming courses will be to make sure that I post weekly on the discussion forums to engage with other students, not just my group members, more actively. I truly believe that I remained dedicated to the work and supportive of my group members throughout the course of these last 8 weeks.

By collaborating on our innovation plans in conjunction with the construction of our ePortfolios, I was able to get a first hand look at what it takes to build an ePortfolio and how I would need to keep that effort in mind as I made it a part of my innovation plan. I was grateful not just to learn the great deal of work that went into building my ePortfolio, but the insight gained from the importance of making an ePortfolio purposeful, to instill ownership in the learning.

Feel free to visit our group’s collaboration to see how we organized and reviewed each other’s work. Click the image on the left to access.