Gaby's Portfolio

At the beginning of this course, I was not sure what to expect. I knew I was going to learn about creating positive learning communities, but I was curious to see how much I could learn about this topic through a format that is fully online. I was very pleasantly surprised by this class as I enjoyed it so much. I got to know my peer interaction group well despite never meeting them in person and I learned a lot of valuable information that I can apply in many aspects of my life. Week 4: Peer Editing Task In Week 4, we were required to post a short story along with two lesson plans - one for sensing students and one for intuitive students. We then posted it to our peer editing group so that we could give and receive feedback on our lessons to make it a better experience for these students. Here is a photo of my initial lessons: This is the feedback I received from my peers about my lessons: Here are the new lessons that I created after receiving feedback from my peers:

I certainly cannot say that this class was a breeze for me. There were many times that I felt challenged, but through those challenges and questions is when learning happened.  Week 2: Peer Interaction Task This was the very first peer interaction task in the course (other than introducing ourselves)! I remember I had just gotten into the course from the waitlist and frantically tried to read through the syllabus, figure out how this course worked, how many tasks I had to complete, and whether I missed any discussions yet. I was not sure how much detail to go into and I was still a little hesitant about sharing a lot of personal information as I did not know my group members very well yet. Week 2: Progress Log For our Week 2 Progress Log, we had to reflect on what makes us feel safe, loved, powerful, free, and pleasured. I wrote down my though process for each one before completing the progress log. I had to think hard about myself and what it meant to feel these feelings in differ...