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Support Through Collaboration: Contribution to My Learning and Learning Community.

Writer's picture: Stephanie WellsStephanie Wells

It was another great semester due in large part to the incredible support and collaboration of a TEAMS group that I am privileged to be a part of late here in the game of this degree. My TEAMmates have been very active in clarifying, evaluating, directing, sharing, and encouraging as we push to the finish line. Although we used a different method to prove collaboration within the Module Discussions this semester, the group was still very active in posting assignments and offering feedback. I have been a part of this group in 2 different semesters. I am only taking one course at a time so it is a new challenge every semester to find a group for collaboration. I was lucky enough that I crossed the paths of several fellow learners that invited me into the group.

Anytime access and feedback from the collaboration group was incredibly helpful this semester, that is top of the list for what is working. The readings and videos, class meetings that were posted also at the top of the list. I, unfortunately, teach until 8pm on class nights so I am never able to be present during the live version. I always go back to watch it when available. I watch all those videos and recordings a minimum of 2 times and the reading happens much more than that. I have met every course deadline. I have contributed within my collaboration group but also on the discussion boards in a timely fashion and try to always circle back for those that don't get feedback. I don't always get feedback no matter how early I post but I think it may be because I teach in higher ed. Although, all the K-12 educators have blown my mind with their level of competency and quality of work and are much more qualified than I am to give feedforward.

Improvements for me remain to be on the quality of feedforward I feel I can offer to the group. If nothing else, acknowledgement of their work and what is working from my perspective I always include.

The learners I collaborated with the most this semester were Mia, Rose, Audrey, Samara. I would not consider myself the leader of the group so I will be marking myself down in that area, but I did try to respond and offer insight where I could. Although this time I did give some APA citations on the discussion board for other literature I have used and found insightful, this is still not my strongest area. I did make revisions and updates to my coursework not only based on my feedforward from the course collaborators but also from my usability testing. The insights from the testing were very content specific so that helped me. Overall, I felt most supported this semester within the collaboration group. I knew that they could/would answer any questions that I had. I also felt I contributed to the group although maybe not as a leader. I am scoring myself 85/100 because I did achieve all the key contributions but didn't take much leadership in the base group and didn't use as many APA citations as others did. I do believe that I met all of the other supporting contributions for the group.

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