Well here I am, at the end of the last course of the ADL program. When I started this last course, I was excited to be at the end and that all of my hard work led up to this. So when I started doing my final assignments for this course, I decided to give every assignment my all. For this course, I give myself a 91/100 and I will explain why below.
Assignments
For this course we were required to complete 4 assignments. I turned them all in on time and I always took the feedback and tried to improve. When I turned in my COVA reflection assignment, I was nervous about how the grading would turn out but I got an A which I am proud of. I feel like my assignments were improving with each course that I took and I am happy that my work has reflected my best efforts. For the Innovation Project update, I worked hard on that to make it creative and I took it as an opportunity to make it great. For my Journey through ADL I have not gotten that grade back yet but that assignment took me a while to complete because of how many components I needed to add. I went back into my website and made main pages for all of my courses so it will be easier for visitors to navigate. I completed all of the course readings and videos and met the activity deadlines listed in the calendar. I am excited to be done but I am also sad because I will miss my classmates who were constantly pushing me to work harder and achieve great things.
Core Group and Discussions
For my core group that I was apart of, I am eternally grateful because they helped so much with my assignments. My group members were Rebecca Chang, LaShunda Brown, Sonia Rodriguez and Tasha Brown. Together we looked over each others assignments and made helpful comments and gave us feedback so we could make our assignments even better than before. In my group I took a couple opportunities to be a leader by promoting discussions about our assignments so we could get things rolling. We all contributed and helped build our group’s foundation and I got really close to these ladies which helped me feel more comfortable with sharing my assignments with them.
For the discussions, I made sure to post a response to every prompt in a timely fashion and I always posted reply’s to other classmates posts after I read through them. I participated in all activities although I would have loved to be able to go to all of the course meetings. Most of the time the meetings were happening, I had prior commitments that I had to get to but I always watched the recording afterwards.
Reflection
Overall I felt like I did the best that I could in this course. Looking back I do regret that I was not able to attend some of the meetings but my classmates informed me on what I missed in our group chat. I feel like my timeline of when to work on the assignments and discussions worked well for me. I always was able to submit them on time with detailed content and I am happy that worked out. Looking back, some things that I could have done better are making more of an effort to be available for the class meetings. Even though I was busy I regret not being able to attend them. Throughout the whole course, I completed all of the assignments, contributed and provided feedback to my group members and I wouldn’t change any of it. This whole ADL program changed my life and learning for the better and I am extremely grateful I got to be apart of something amazing and I cannot wait to continue it in the future on my own.
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