Contributions to Learning and Learning Community (2nd Edition)

My collaboration group for both 5302 and 5304 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.

Although I wasn’t able to attend the live meetings due to scheduling conflicts, I was able to view the recorded sessions and always have discussions with my team members as a follow up. Additionally, Dr. Fredy and Dr. Bedard were easily accessible and graciously answered any questions I had. Other than requesting a minor extension for an illness, I consistently turned my work in on time.

For 5304, I would give myself a score of 94/100 for my self-assessment. I took a greater leadership role in this course, and I believe the greatest contributions I provided to my group were template ideas for the influencer strategy and installing 4DX, as well as providing notes for a crucial conversations training I attended. 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 tech 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 5302, I would give myself a score of 92/100 for my self-assessment. I made sure to provide my group members with early iterations of my work, how I developed my assignments and responses, and ensure that I gave them feedback on their work as well. My timeliness for discussion posts needs improvement in this course as well.

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.