Brianna E. Garcia Learning Portfolio

Individual Response One

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The first half of this class has been interesting. I have never had to do a group project during an online class before. While I found all the readings to be intriguing, I personally have not been able to will myself to do the readings. If I do find the motivation, I more so skim the readings and look for the important facts and quotes rather than actually reading. I have not found a way to actually enjoy doing the readings. I am not sure if it is because I am just burning myself out from school or if I am just not motivated to do the readings. I do have a question. Do you have any advice for making getting through the readings easier to get through? Not just for this class but other classes as well?

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Being able to understand exactly what I am reading and understand the applications for what I am reading is something I also struggle with in all of my classes. I understand that I am an EDD student but this has always been something that I struggled with.

As for doing the group projects, I found doing them in an online class to be an interesting experience. I have never enjoyed group projects whether in person or online. Though I, personally, have never done a group project solely online before. I think these stakeholder challenges are interesting though I am still a little confused on what we are actually supposed to do with no examples given or seen to what the design project is supposed to look like. I have never done a stakeholder challenge before and while my group did their best to explain what it was when we first met on Zoom, I still do not understand exactly what the stakeholder challenge is supposed to be and look like. What exactly is it supposed to look like and what is it supposed to include?

 

While I do think my participation in the group project could’ve been better, I think my partner's communication could have been better as well. Trying to get a hold of them before the first assignment was due was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. From unanswered emails to the unanswered questions in the group discussion page on canvas. But my participation is on me with no one else to blame but myself. I continuously forgot to edit or make comments on our google doc before it was posted to the discussion due to being busy with my two other classes as well as my teaching classes and grading. I do not feel like I participated enough in the first design project because I continuously forgot to participate and I know I could do better in the next one. Danielle did send out a message to the group mentioning how she ran most of the first challenge, although Jeremy did have the hurricane to ride through, I feel like Mike and I could have stepped up more than we did. I do take full responsibility for my lack of participation.