I recently learned about the concept of false modesty. This is when a person downplays the importance of their role, even if they are self-aware enough to realize their role was significant. I enjoy the opportunity to reflect on our coursework and contributions, but also fight the need for false modesty. My core group is pretty fantastic and we spend as much time building and supporting the academic pieces, while also fulfilling a social-emotional need to connect and validate. For this, there is no need for false modesty.
Overall, I’ll grade myself the following:
5318: Instructional Design for Online Learning 94/100
5389: Developing Effective Professional Learning – 96/100
My core group is truly amazing and I'm so fortunate to have such a strong group with which to travel on this adventure. I’ve called them my small group, my learning group, my accountability group, and now my counseling and expert group. I joined in discussions and offered suggestions and advice. As a former journalist and writing teacher, I felt my strongest contribution in both classes was giving feedforward on initial drafts of written and recorded media. I gave input on coursework by all members of, “The Best Group Ever,” the official name Lauren Blasdel gave our group. Other members are Shaneigh Smith, Mattheiu Brooks, and Lance Moran.
Mattheiu, again, updated this shared file to help keep us on track and accountable for all assignments, discussion posts, and meetings. My linear brain works best seeing everything laid out as he’s done for us, so I’m grateful for his efforts. At the onset of our classes, Shaneigh created a Zoom link for core meetings, so we continue to meet this way. You can see from our meeting pics, that we are share, question, collaborate, commiserate, and have fun. Lauren is always willing and ready to test our products~websites, links, materials~you name it, she'll help! Lance easily and openly shares projects, ideas, and feedforward to help us all improve. My best contribution was presence and relaying information. My groupmates have family needs to tend to and I was usually available to join live sessions and share pertinent details until they were able to view class recordings. Earlier in our program, work required more travel and evening events, and they filled the gap for me, so I was more than happy to return the favor.
In coursework, 5389 was my happy place and 5318 was my challenge. I feel like it was opposite for most classmates, though. My career moved from classroom teacher to Professional Learning specialist in August 2010. I enjoyed the AI discussions and tech tips, but especially loved sharing and collaborating in discussion posts. I asked Dr. Reed if she would add due dates to our Discussion posts becuse I was eager to dive in, but the rest of the class was taking their time posting! I would thoroughly enjoy a full semester in this class, validating what we do in this profession, while helping to build PL skills and understaning for educators and administators.
I found 5318 to be much more challenging and learned to lean on groupmates and classmates who were thrown into the LMS-life during school Covid-closures in 2020. It was a relief to learn I wasn't the only LMS newbie and once I got rolling in Canvas it was actually pretty enjoyable. I came to rely on discussion feedback and hope my replies and responses were also helpful to my classmates.
Overall, my core group has found a nice flow in how we work together and interact. We text, share an active GroupMe, Zoom regularly, discuss class, projects, work, and life in general. Our latest topic has been graduation and hopefully, finally, getting to all meet in real life, where there will be no false modesty, as we celebrate our success in this program.
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