Saturday, January 12, 2019

Farewell Post-Reflection


ED638-41-Teaching with the Internet
Fall Intersession '18 - M. Rivera

Farewell Post-Reflection

To start with my final self-reflection, I want to say my life will be changing dramatically here very shortly. I have noticed time management falls under both a weakness and a strength for me. I feel as if everyone can improve on their time management skills since life is always throwing new curve balls at us.
Reading is not of my greatest strengths. Online learning requires a significant amount of reading. Which is something I rarely did until I enrolled in this program, then this is the time I commit myself to read and now I love it. So yay me!! I am also very good at finding key points within these readings. Well in my opinion, it is also great challenge and strength to have an online learning or just learning in general.
One of my weaknesses is being a very shy, anti-social person. I have a hard time contacting people when I need the help. I feel embarrassed to ask questions sometimes. I started being independent straight out of high school; many times it’s very hard to ask for help. I need to improve on my social skills and get over the fear of asking for help because sometimes you just need it. I know in some of my other courses I will be required to work in groups so improving on this will help me greatly with these types of projects. Also being able to contact with other students or even my professors when I struggle with a certain assignment is something I may need to do in the future.
Within this course, I have faced many challenges and difficulties. I always try my best to fulfill all the requirements for this course. Most of the time, I submitted my works late due to the fact that the time limit is too short as well as everything always pile up. Therefore, most of the time, I’m behind of schedule but I always try to submit everything. Well, I have doubt for this class whether I could pass it or not but honestly I learned a lot from Dr. Rivera. This is my first time to create my own blogs or even websites that provide great resources for the teachers. I didn’t know that the website or blogs already upload on google. It’s really a great learning experience I’ve obtain in this course. THANK YOU Dr. Rivera for this opportunity and learning experiences I have so far.
Moreover, I have a major tool that I will use to help in the future online learning. This tool will be highlighting while doing my readings to find those key points and it always helped me. I will also be trying the method of playing music in the background while doing school work to help calm me and focus my studies. One other method I want to try that I haven’t done is working outside in the fresh air, maybe next to a lake or river. Also, I need to find a new spot to do my school work instead of doing it inside my house. So I will be looking into buying a desk so I can have a place where I can solely work on school. Some of the UOG resources I would like to use in the future are Tutorial Service. If I make it through these two course. Then next term, I must ask help from my classmate and especially my Professors for their assistance. 
One last note to everyone! Thank you for all the advice you guys have given me and I greatly enjoyed having this class with all of you. Also I want to thank Professor Dr. Rivera for all the great encouragement. I wish you all the best of luck in your future of online learning, as well as any other great things you have planned for yourselves!
~Strickson Lenster Fredrick 


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