Publishing Course
- Fall 2023
- Course Number: EDLD 5317
- Course Title: Resources for Digital Environments
Contributions to learning and learning community
I am giving myself a score of 95 out of 100
Crediting Core Group Member: Shannon Bowles and Chantilly Sweet
The remaining members of my core discussion group constantly changed based on discussion posting dates. I found it challenging to continue collaborating with the same core members (aside from Shannon) because I followed the course posting guidelines and deadlines.
I would like to give a proper thank you to all of those who regularly engaged with me in the course.
Discussion 1
Digital Tools in Digital Environments
- Responses to Angela Deschner, Chantilly Sweet, Jane Burnett, Shannon Bowles
- Responses from Angela Deschner
Discussion 2
Perusing and Sharing Publications
- Responses to Shannon Bowles, Chantilly Sweet, Argelia Perez Ramirez
- Responses from Shannon Bowles, Araceli Maria Lopez, Brenda Decuir, Angela Deschner
Discussion 3
Audio and Visual Digital Tools
- Responses to Shannon Bowles, Angela Deschner, Brenda Decuir, Roostynel Tovar, Chantilly Sweet
- Responses from Shannon Bowles
Discussion 4
- Responses to Shannon Bowles, Roostynel Tovar, Araceli Maria Lopez, Angela Deschner, Chantilly Sweet, Argelia Perez Ramirez
- Responses from Shannon Bowles
Peer Review Reflection
Shannon was an outstanding learning community member this session, and I was happy to provide feed-forward on her rough draft as she did for mine. Shannon provided valuable feedforward when concepts I sharing were unclear to the reader. What I found writing was that I had been working with the content and concepts so long that I was skipping details or failing to organize my thoughts in a logical sequence. Additionally, Shannon provided insight from their experiences during orientation, adding another layer to the audience’s perspective.
Feedforward to Shannon on her Rough Draft
Feedforward from Shannon on my Rough Draft
This learning community aspect is something that I will miss moving out of the ADL courses and into professional life. This must be why the ADL program encourages us to get involved in our professional learning organizations to continue this community-based learning beyond our time together. What a fantastic project to culminate the program by submitting our work for publication. Carefully crafting the ADL program, we can now continue the conversation with those in our professions.
Contributions
Key Contributions
From the very start of the session, I did my best to contribute to building a learning community and provided a positive and collaborative contribution. Throughout the course, I worked to meet all activity deadlines outlined by Dr. Still and kept up with the content in each module. I have posted by keeping up with the course schedule so that other learning community members have ample time to respond. I have also found that having time for feedback allowed me to improve assignments by their due dates. I complete and reflect upon all assigned course readings, videos, and resources and share additional sources discovered throughout my learning exploration and reflections on learning connections. I post when I will be available for support on long-term project days and before deadlines. I take feedback, ideas, and suggestions from the comments on shared documents and discussion board posts to improve my work and clarify my thoughts. I provide thoughtful feedback and support to my classmates and community members.
Supporting Contributions
I did my very best to take on leadership responsibility and always asked clarifying questions during class calls in hopes of helping myself and others. I participated in all activities and rewatched the class call recordings to reinforce learning opportunities discussed with classmates. I routinely check the discussion board for posts and updates to keep collaborations active and timely with posted deadlines and due dates. I actively seek additional sources and resources. This course specifically had some links that were no longer active, but I searched and reposted updated links for future reflection. I included citations of source materials and reflected on the lessons laid out for us throughout the course.
What Could Be Better
Several semesters ago, I began sharing a GroupMe for a collective of ADL learners. I had high hopes that the group would continue to intake new ADL students, thereby creating a long-term mentorship group with veteran and graduate ADL students continuing to learn while giving guidance and perspective to future cohorts. The hope was that learners who struggled to connect with a community in their coursework would find additional opportunities to connect with others with similar innovations or interests.
In the past, this has been such an active and collaborative group. Unfortunately, a large part of our collaborative membership graduated, and many left the group. Watching members leave the group was crushing, as I thought we would be lifelong learners together. Buying into the idea of the learning collective.
I tried to keep casting conversation starters and offered ongoing support to other learners, but the group was inactive this session. It seemed like no one reached out for help from different classes, and no one posted assignments for feedforward. I cannot help but wonder if it was due to the discussion board requirement for posts and comments.
What Worked
For me, especially in the absence of the collective, collaborative learning experience I had become accustomed to, blogging helped fill some of the reflection and exploration I would have been doing in learning community meetings. I have tried to take every lesson that the program designed for us to heart, and I believe Dr. Harapnuik wanted us to continue blogging throughout the program. Many do not maintain the practice, but it is a key component of higher-order thinking and metacognition. I firmly believe that this authentic learning environment provides us with a frame of reference for our learning opportunities.
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