Week 5 Reflection

It was nice to take a little bit of a breath this week without the group project. I can definitely see why every online course needs a healthy mixture of group assessments and individual learning weeks. Both are so important! So, I started the week working on solidifying my four learning objectives I will use in my final project. I know there will still be some tweaking along the way, but I feel that I have learned how to write effective objectives through the various activities in this course. At first I though that the taxonomy table was a little bit much and I didn't quite understand the point of it. HOWEVER, I now completely understand how valuable it can be. When I started creating activities and matching them up with the Bloom's verbs, it started to completely transform my learning objectives. It helped to make the objective more specific, measurable and meaningful. It was a great learning experience for me and I am starting to gain more confidence in my ability to create objectives and activities for an online module.

I also gained powerful insight, ideas and feedback from my peers this week. It was nice to compare my interpretation of the assignment with my peers and use that information to change and add to my own project. For example, I hadn't thought about adding an overall goal for the module until I saw one of my classmates add it to hers - now it just seems so obvious! Additionally, I learned a lot about rubrics. Honestly in my current classes I do a lot of checklists and outlines instead of formal rubrics so this felt a bit new to me. I learned about what I wanted to include in my rubric by providing feedback to my classmates rubrics. It was interesting how everyone had a different layout.