I have always have had great appreciation for the great strides in innovation that have occurred in my lifetime. In radiography alone, in the course of my career, we have moved from taking 15 minutes to do a computed tomography scan of the brain to 90 seconds to scan from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet. Further, we have reduced patient dose from radiation exposure up to 80% with the invention of digital radiography. In this field the necessity of innovation cannot be undersold. It is of life-saving importance. I have seen so many changes in the course of my career that it is so hard to believe that I have been reluctant to change my teaching practices. The apathy lied in the outcomes. We used the success of our students on the national test as an indicator of how great we were doing. The real measure should have been in our attrition and the students that we lost along the way. This semester we have looked back at our innovation project to update where I am in the process. This update demonstrates not only the growth of the plan but the real change in my mindset. I have become a self-directed learner. I have discovered that I enjoying adding research to my own projects as uncovered in the assessing digital learning instruction course. Even doing literature reviews especially the second one became a delight instead of a burden. I was starving for information and willing to go find it. 

       The value of collaboration and how I contribute to the learning environment but also how I have become a leader in organizational change because of the confidence I have found in the power of having to collaborate. 

        Again, not coming from a background in education, learning how I learn and my learning philosophy by studying the varying educational theories has made me finally understand instructional design and why those principles are vital to true learning. I have learned how to create alternative professional development to help my fellow educators understand how to implement my innovation project but also a complete online course within that instructional design to teach them the basic principles that I learned here. 

       My pledge is to "change one learner at a time" as Dr. Harapniuk has said many times in the course of this program. I have changed from a traditional teacher to a facilitator, from a follower to a leader, from a lone-wolf to someone who truly values collaboration, and I plan to continue to do the work for as long as I am in education.