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Assessment has really taken on new meaning for me during all of our courses but really has made a serious impact for me during this course. If I do a good reflection on the learning, I reveal much more understanding or lack of understanding than most if not all forms of assessment. I previously would have felt that there must be a right answer and how will I convey that to the assessor. I realize from an instructor's perspective and ultimately from that of the learner, the best knowledge is knowledge that helps me evaluate why the knowledge is important and how it applies to my life. By looking at the storehouse of information that I bring to a learning experience and seeing how that will help with the future of gaining new perspectives or reformulating them, I can more successfully come to the best conclusions.
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Our approach in developing this project started out in about a million directions. We came together from various situations and experiences to pull our lesson ideas. We were so lucky that we had various experiences to collaborate on regarding the kinds of things our learners would best create. I felt that we all contributed to ideas and that my best contribution was the years of the classroom that help pull many excellent thought together into cohesion. We would post and review after we would work together over connect and the phone then let everyone make any comments and revisions before we posted. I loved being able to contribute that way because there was no threat. I took some time for me not to "DO IT MYSELF" but my teammates great ideas helped me listen.
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I think this project was great for me from the perspective of sharing and collaborating on completion of work. This is truly the first really good experience I have had. Many times it is one person to wants to take over or another person who abdicates their work to others. I clearly saw in the group dynamics that I want to develop more fully. From this experience, I learned to ask questions that will draw more from other participants and expect them to do what they were assigned or volunteered to do. This will make me more interested in working with others in the future. Realizing this makes me hope that I will step up to the challenges that come because we recognize no one can hold all the information and we can all glean benefits from the research and investigations of team members.

