Contributions to Learning

Self – Assessment Score: 95

My Contributions

As a core member of the Ed Tech Group, formed in January 2025, I actively participated by sharing my work for feedforward, while also giving constructive feedback to my peers. As a group, we supported each other in understanding the different components of current course assignments. This helped us stay on track of what was due each week.

Zoom Meetings

The weekly zoom meetings, usually on a Saturday morning, allowed us to engage in meaningful discourse guided by class discussion prompts, upcoming assignments, and overall challenges and successes experienced in our daily schedules. These allowed us to foster a collaborative network that will propel each of us to move forward within our careers. I am looking forward to meeting each of them on graduation day!

GroupMe

The GroupMe allowed us to facilitate ongoing group chat collaboration throughout each week, extending the discourse from our weekly Zoom meetings. Using this platform we were able to check-in with each other on personal matters, assignments, grades, and feedback. We regularly shared portfolio links, Ed tech resources, and overall collaborative support for one another.

Core Group Members:

• Lori Berney
• Sarah Enger
• lisa Hockenberry
• Ashley Martinez
• Monique Richardson

What Worked

To solidify my learning, the weekly Zoom meetings, bi-weekly class meetings, and the daily GroupMe discussions, emphasized the collaborative nature of the Educational Technology Leadership program to build on my prior knowledge. The organic nature of each conversations, built a commuity of learners that became more auto-didactic than waiting to receive. This type of discourse was not seen in the BlackBoard Teacher’s Lounge provided by our professors. The hands-on nature of our chosen communication choices built a strong and supportive community within Lamar University’s program.

What Could be Improved

When answering discussion posts and assingments in BlackBoard, I believe that the manner in which these items were worded and directed could have been more clear. Because of this, like myself, other students would make an initial post just to make sure that what was entered was what the professor was looking for, then would go back and edit after being able to see the post of others. Also, after making this inital posting and commenting on two others, I would never look at that discussion board again. All other communication would take place within the GroupMe chats, for quicker feedback.

Reflection of Assignments

When reviewing and processing all comments made by my professors and classmates during the process of this entire program, not just these particular classes, I had a trend of incorrect formatting of my APA citations. I would either forget to add page numbers, a web link, all authors names, the hanging indent, or italicizing in specific areas. These small but major critiques allowed me to fully understand how to format APA citations according to the 7th edition manual without the need of reading a 40 page step-by-step on set-up.

I also became more of a technical writer by making sure that when writing research based papers, to take myself out of the wording, adding introductory context in an abstract and on my portfolio, and using broader thinking when narrowing down to a topic of interest that may affect the education world.