5318: Learning Community Contributions

I. What happened in this course?

In this course, I created an asynchronous course to accompany my innovation. My plan relies on the use of ePortfolio in the emergent bilingual classroom to support the language acquisition through COVA.

While on my ADL journey, I researched AI and many other means to support EBs. However, I was too excited and need to refocus my attention on ePortfolio usage. Therefore, my asynchronous course is called the Implementation of ePortfolios.

II. Implementation ePortfolio Breakdown

The first assignments of the ADL course was the creation of the overview of the ecourse. We were to think about goals, facilitator role, course design, context, artifacts, and correlation between goal-activities-assessment. Following this assignment, we were to begin planning our learning management system with its components. Finally, we had testers use our system to and adjusted our course from there.

My course is a student-centered asynchronous implementation of ePortfolios in EB classrooms to promote outstanding learning environment, voice, and second language acquisition. I decided to use a backward design model with the components of COVA. The course uses Google Classroom as its learning management system because of familiarity for users. The structure of the course starts with research and understanding of the skill, then teacher creation, followed by implementation research, and concluding with classroom integration.

The purpose is to not exhaust learners during their journey and have them be opened to this new change. My testers, alumni and retired teacher, noted the ease of the LMS and the organization of the course as benefits. They did offer two suggestions that I will incorporate into the innovation plan in its entirety checklists and integrated support.

III. What worked and what could've been better?

Worked. I didn't have any issues with this course. Everything worked, I spent more time building on my ideas than I had in other courses. Being on summer break allowed me to stop, take a step back, then revisit my work. I was able to take my time and think things through.

Better. I had enough time to do more courses that I could've presented to my group.

IV. Who was in my community? How did I use their feedback?

I am glad I decided to use Google Classroom after fellow alumni Kelsie Adams cautioned on the difficulties that Canva can have. Just because everyone has access, it does not mean that it should be used.

Adaliz Barroso, Kelsie Adams, and I had a wonderful discussion on how to establish a presence and portray expertise in an environment that has not allowed us to flourish those qualities. We do realize that time will be a factor, but more importantly we have faith in our innovation plan to support us when sharing our work.

V. Taking Leadership

The way I really stood out as a leader was during the last discussion board. I was so excited and ahead on creating my course that I was able to get their feedback on my testers and course early. It may have seemed overwhelming to them at first, but I appreciated their responses. I even participated in their LMS and gave feedback.