Christie Swan

EDLD: 5318

Contribution to Your Learning and the Learning Community

Grade: 95
Grade Reflection
After taking EDLD 5318, I have been pushed and challenged with more real-world learning than I
ever have in my educational career. This class showed me solid, helpful tools to create effective
instructional design courses and how to implement them. Looking back on the class, I would self-
assess my grade as a 95 altogether due to meeting all of the needs of the key and supporting
contributions.

Key and Supporting Contributions

In 5318, I made sure to create my course on relevant topics that I am passionate about: supporting
struggling learners. Throughout this course and building my English 1 Canvas course for struggling
learners, I learned what I can do better to help support students, and that is making sure that they are
supported and given feedback throughout the year and are provided with engaging lessons with clear
objectives on a LMS that is easy to navigate. I have learned this through watching the videos, doing
all of the readings and using the supporting templates and sources. The first thing I would do is make
sure to have all of the videos and readings completed. Then, I would watch the class session. Next, I
would work on my assignments and send them to my collaboration group to get feedback. Finally, I
added the revised assignments to my Eportfolio christieswan.weebly.com. In addition, the
recordings/class meetings provided organized, helpful support so that I had a clear plan for my
course. My course focused on English 1 struggling students. This is a topic that I am passionate
about because so many of our students got lost in translation during asynchronous learning during
Covid. Now, I have an LMS platform that I can provide the scaffolding that these students need with
my English 1 Canvas course. I learned that I need to keep the course simple and easy to navigate
and not worry so much about cutesy decorations. Also, I learned that I need to provide a clear starting
point, clear objectives at the top of each assignment, and the most important thing I learned was to
provide help videos with navigation throughout the course and for help with assignments. My Canvas
course provides me with all the tools I need to my my English 1 struggling learners succeed.

In addition to my self-reflections, I have enjoyed contributing and receiving feedback from my

collaboration group. I have participated in the online discussions in our actual classes, received
feedback from students through discussions and Google Forms and from an inclusion teacher and
technology specialist, but I have learned the most from my collaboration group. We first emailed each
other and created a Google Drive folder for our class and sent each other links to our websites in
order to receive relevant feedback. We then shared all of our documents and provided effective
feedback to each other. We also emailed each other with questions because sometimes we were
struggling with what to actually do. We have endless amounts of emails sent back and forth helping
each other answer questions. It helped tremendously, and it also gave me confidence in the
knowledge of my subject. We had a large group, but some of the key members who helped me were
Brittany Walko, Melissa Young, and Jonny Fernandez; these three people provided relevant
feedback, and they also provided encouragement and guidance when I was struggling with an
assignment. In addition, because they were so helpful with me, I made sure to provide this same
support to other classmates struggling. I took leadership by making sure my assignments were put in
our group Google Drive as soon as possible so that they could provide feedback, and I tried to
answer as many questions that each team member had so that they were not struggling. Also, I am
an English major, so I love proofreading, and I know that I can provide depth in feedback. I tried to
help with as many papers as I could so that my team can do well on their papers. I have taken
leadership responsibility in this collaboration group by sending help videos to walk them through a
part of the assignment through our email chain, and I have provided effective feedback on all
assignments. In addition to being a leader, I have also received help from peer feedback, and I would
send my assignments through our email chain, and I revised my assignments accordingly before I
posted them to my website. Anytime a college class requires collaboration, I am apprehensive, but I
love how the collaboration process happens in this course.

All in all, EDLD 5318 provided me with real-world knowledge, real-world tools, and real-world
experience and collaboration which no other class has done before. To say it was an easy task would
be a lie. I struggled with this class; however, it has provided me with actual skills I needed to be a
successful leader and teacher in education.

Link to my Eportfolio:
christieswan.weebly.com
(All of my revised assignments are on my website under the EDLD 5318 tab. The link to every
assignment that has been revised is the christieswan.weebly.com address)

To Access All of My Assignments:

1. christieswan.weebly.com
2. Click on the EDLD 5318 tab.
 3. The revised assignments are all there.
Collaborating with Groups - I have attached screenshots of our emails and our Shared Google Drive
Folder below.