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April 2021 Seminar Reflection

Caroline E. White

Department of Health Care Informatics, University of San Diego

HCIN 548

Professor O’Hagan

April 15, 2021

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April 2021 Seminar Reflection

In today’s seminar, first-year students had the opportunity to view a few second-year

students’ ePortfolio websites briefly. I found this especially useful since I will use these as

inspiration for the overall aesthetic and structure of my own website. Additionally, after looking

at the sample ePortfolios, I realized I may have been overdoing my seminar reflections. The

journal entries shown were a lot more concise and casual than the ones I have submitted before.

At a quick glance, the sample reflections simply discussed what occurred during class and were

more in the style of a stream of consciousness rather than an academic paper. The students’

artifact reflections were brief as well, about the length of a paragraph. I feel less pressure about

writing future seminar and artifact reflections, granted I fully answer the prompt questions.

Another thing I found helpful during this class was that Professor O’Hagan suggested students

write a reflection for an artifact shortly after turning that assignment in, because that is when it is

freshest in our minds. I agree, and I will try to incorporate her advice in the future. I plan to

spread out the ePortfolio artifact reflections and other graduation requirements over time,

because I can imagine how overwhelming it would be if I waited until the last minute to do

everything. It is smart that the first year second-semester students are already having to complete

a couple of the artifact reflections and continually update their websites as homework. Deadlines

are key to making progress over time. I will continue to create deadlines for myself in the future

even if we are not required to do them for homework so that I can progress through these

graduation requirements. Now that I know the artifact reflections can be somewhat short and

sweet, I will try not to make them more of a project than they need to be.