5389: Contribution to My Learning and the Learning Community

Reflection on what is working and what I can do better:

After expressing my struggle to my direct supervisor at work with handling the balancing act that is being in the ADL and also handling a (NEW) full time job as well as also seeking my CALT certification, my boss challenged me with something this semester. To take each day one task at a time. While this may seem like an odd thing to list as an item for self improvement, I do see it as a great need. Slowing down, isolating the task at hand. Giving it the time and attention it deserves and allowing it to breathe. While sometimes compartmentalization can be given a bad wrap, I also think It gives us time to see the beauty in each thing we handle as an individual and then see how they all fit together. This course had a lot of moving parts together in lockstep, but they each had their own important things that needed to stand in isolation. For my improvement, I will continue to look for areas where I can take it one step at a time. As for things going well, I really feel that I got into a better routine with my discussion questions and staying on top of those. I do feel that I could have given more depth and to the responses and perhaps included more outside research, but again, one task at a time. Breathe.

Key Contributions

Contributed to, helped build, and provided feedback to your core collaboration group

My collaboration group was: Cristy Silkin and Jackie Bittner. These ladies and I have been together since the beginning of our ADL journey and I can truly say that I could not have done with out them. We have collaborated on various platforms throughout our time together and this time what worked the best was a good ol' text message. We tried setting up a Padlet for collaboration as had worked in the past for us, but I think this time around our schedules simply demanded the simplicity.

Revised all assignments and reflected on revisions in this contribution to a learning activity.

All assignments were reflected on and revised accordingly to peer and instructor feedback. We had some great commentary in our group text. Before turning in anything we would all post our assignments and give feedforward comments. This was so helpful and really helped all of us grow as learners.

Completed ALL of the course readings, videos, and supporting resources.

All readings, videos, and resources were viewed and synthesized

Met the various course activity deadlines indicated in the calendar.

All activities were turned in on time.

Supporting Contributions

While I believe I met at supporting contributions I am going to put mine in a plus/delta table because I do think there are some that could have been done better.

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Took leadership responsibility in my base group and the course. I took initiative to discuss collaboration platforms and initiate conversation in the group chat. I also responded to the course GroupMe and answered classmates questions. Contributed to my learning and the learning of my colleagues by participating in ALL activities. I completed all assignments and participated in all discussion questions. Active contributions in the various course forums. I participated in the large course GroupMe and the class discussion board. Posted in a timely fashion so others could respond to my postings. All discussion posts were posted early enough so others could have an opportunity to respond.

Postings reflect breadth and depth of thinking with research to support thinking and are cited using APA. While my postings all cited the provided video or reading in APA, I believe I could have included more research to have more thought provoking discussions. Additional postings were made that did not require research but were rather to contribute to the learning. I responded to my peers posts to contribute to both our learning, but I believe that I could have been more in depth and I could have done maybe even some additional blog postings to contribute more to everyone's learning.

5389 Assignments:

Alternate PL - Call to Action

Planning the Alternative PL Assignment

Connecting and Communicating Your Ideas

Final Self-Assessment:

95/100