OK.. I am not. BUT.. I feel like a superwoman who has single handedly flown around the world, saved it, made a sandwich, mended some booboo's and looked fabulous while doing it.
It's a bird.. NO .. it's a plane.. No.. It's Just Mrs. MUNOZ.
My professor has asked me to provide a learning summary in order to evaluate myself and reflect on the class. Yet, I don't even know where to begin. How do I even begin to asses myself for this class? I feel that it has been one of the most valuable classes that I have taken. It has truly served a great purpose in my life, especially by also being my first grad class. The only way I could truly evaluate myself in this class was to separate out all of its great pieces and then re-group them into a cohesive chart. I present to you "THE LIFE CYCLE OF: EME 5050."
At the top of the chart I added our simpler online activities. These were things I had heard of, but that only my EME5050 would push me to try. Creating a blog, starting a Twitter Feed, Diigo account and WIKI page were all items I had never done before and doing so has allowed me to see their benefits immensely.
Following that, I grouped the WAR's and Journal writing. These had to be my worst enemies throughout the class. Although I love writing, I was so scared of what others would think of my writing and that would ultimately lead me to procrastinate. The WAR's exposed me to writing about research and allowed me a glimpse into the research world of IDT. I really liked that our journal entries on the blog were something that we could take on creatively by choosing our own topics. I tried to relate something I was experiencing as a teacher to something we were learning. I feel that my students gave me more than enough examples from which to correlate the two genres.
The Activity Reflections that we completed and then evaluated ourselves on were the most helpful to me. I was fully submerged in the process of the activities. I learn best by doing, and these activity reflections helped me incorporate my learning style.
Testing had to be my least favorite of our learning objectives. I fear testing as much as a visit to the dentist. The book offered some good insight, but I enjoyed the modules of the class 100 times more than the book. I know that traditional assessments are still a very valuable way to find out what material your students are learning, but at grad level, I just think they are redundant. The final had to be my least favorite activity, but I am grateful it was only 30 questions. Anymore.. and I would have had to hide under the bed.
Last but certainly not least was the culminating project which I feel was more than an adequate way for us to put it all together.
At the beginning of this class, I was timid in not knowing what to expect. Was the work going to be to hard? Would I succeed in grad school ? Was I up to par with the other grad students? These are all questions and worries that I faced, but after taking and completing this course I've learned that I can handle it.. I can complete my first grad course and survive the Life Cycle of EME 5050.
