Reflection Two

Week Two has ended and so has the last day of school! It was a very hectic week. In fact, I am typing this blog for a second input because I realized that the previous reflection I drafted did not post to my blog :)



Moving forward, I realized that I am going to have to really organize my personal calendar so that I can effective use time management to complete deadlines. Typically, I do well with planning and managing my time, but I think that since I had learned about the cohort at the end of April, applied and then was accepted, I did not make time to close-out other commitments I was involved in (like the Doctoral program I am presently in).



Nevertheless, wthe cohort is an intriguing challenge and I am looking forward to more fun-filled activities. If I had these type of activities in undergraduate or graduate school I am sure I would have contribute my full attention to completing my studies. This cohort has me excited about learning new things.



Setting a personal time management calendar will help me to interact with my team and be an effective team member. It is difficult when everyone on a team has family and other obligations that must be completed. One strategy that I learned from our learning chat is to use a baseball hat as an indicator to my family that I am studying and unavailable. I have implemented the strategy. (LOL) I must say at first my family thought it was funny and they ignored the "cap" but when I stayed steadfast and refuse to respond they fell into the play of the game. It is amazing how Jean Piaget's experiment with the mouse really works to change someone's behavior. :)



My communication inventory, placed me as a "thinker" as a communicator. I have to be very watchful of that because sometimes I am told in general I think ttttoooooo much. So I am going to try to focus on the strengths of my communication style so that it will outweigh the weaknesses.

Reflection One

Whew-Well week one of my online orientation class has ended! It included a plethora of activities that really redirected me to the emphasis of technology. I was faberglassed to encounter an aspect of the web that I was not familiar with. I really enjoyed the layout of activities and oftentimes felt challenged. The ELC interface was brand new to me. In the past I have taken online classes that used BlackBoard and other familiar interfaces for classes. The ELC was very simple to adapt to, this is why the scavenger hunt was so useful. I developed many ideas of activities I can incoporate into my fifth-grade classroom. Especially when they are learning the basic skills of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint etc.

One concern that I had was organizing my time management. Next week is the last week of school. the previous and upcoming weeks have and will be extremely rough for me. I will need to follow a schedule precisely to meet deadlines. I think the biggest challenge I faced during this time period was last night when we had an electrical power outage which prevented me from logging on and completing this assignment of constructing a blog page. I know I can only complete the things that I am in control of.

Other than that I am very excited about the integration of technology in this class!!!

Well I am signing off until next time...Adrienne