Wicked Cool

During the last five weeks, we have been privileged to a multitude of lectures, guided to weekly readings, various assignments, discussion board topics, and opportunities to post in our blogs based on the various themes we have discussed. All of these things that we have been guided to participate in and encouraged to work on have helped us to further design and shape the future of our action research plan.

     The readings that we have, have been very useful. The last readings that we partook in were simple and invaluable. It was made obvious many of the ideas that I had, were incorrect or inaccurate and needed to be reviewed before I could have an accurate and beneficial action research project.

     The assignments that we were assigned were also very beneficial in that we were often times forced to examine what we were doing in our projects and then make changes in order to keep them accurate and beneficial. More often than not, I was forced to re-examine where I was in my project and make the proper changes to the plan in order to be sure that what I was doing was going to make a difference. I think that with the guidance that we have received, all of us definitely have the opportunity to make a difference with the information that we will be gathering and examining.

     As far as the discussion board is concerned, the utilization of the discussion board has been of the utmost benefit. To be able to read what the others in my situation are having to deal with has made it possible to put myself in their shoes as well as them to put themselves in my shoes in order to see another way to help the situation. When we are able to work together and be open to make as well as take suggestions from our peers, then we reach another level of professionalism as well as a higher plain of being a help to the future.

     The blogs are something that I have never been a part of until this class. I was nervous at first use the blogger website, being afraid that I would not be able to write in a manner befitting the fact that anyone in the world could read my blog and know what I was thinking about. It wasn’t until after the first post of two that I realized that many of the people in my class were in the same situation as myself when it came to the blog “thing.” Becoming part of the blogosphere has been a benefit in that it gave people the opportunity and apparently the freedom, to be able to say anything that they felt needed to be say about what I was doing.

     Over all, the experience of this class has been what it was set out to be I think. It has made me examine what I am doing as a research project from angles I didn’t know existed while at the same time, it has provided me with the knowledge that I need to get this taken care of in a manner befitting of a Masters of Educational Administration.