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Below are Artifacts that Support My Personal Course Goals

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Below are Artifacts that Support My Personal Course Goals

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Necessary Changes to be Made to Previous Self-Profile

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Necessary Changes to be Made to Previous Self-Profile

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Below are Artifacts that Support the Course Goals

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Below are Artifacts that Support the Course Goals

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(1) Prepare Portfolio that shows your growth and development as a learner in the course, Foundations for learning Success

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(1) Prepare Portfolio that shows your growth and development as a learner in the course, Foundations for learning Success

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Unit 4 - Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning

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Unit 4 - Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning

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Course Goal # 7 & 8 are present in this artifact.

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Unit 3 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice: Foundation for Life- Long Learning.

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Unit 3 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice: Foundation for Life- Long Learning.

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Unit 2 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Exploring the Meaning Making Landscape for Learning Success 

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Unit 2 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Exploring the Meaning Making Landscape for Learning Success 

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Course Goals # 1 & # 4 are present in this artifacts.

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Unit 1- Preparing the Self-Empowered Practitioner Art

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Unit 1- Preparing the Self-Empowered Practitioner Art

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Course Goals # 2 & # 3 are present in this artifacts.

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(3) Select one journal which in your opinion, need improvement to become a quality reflective journal. Rewrite this journal showing improvements by use of feedback received from your peers and tutor. 

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(3) Select one journal which in your opinion, need improvement to become a quality reflective journal. Rewrite this journal showing improvements by use of feedback received from your peers and tutor. 

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Below is the the chosen journal that has to be improved, next to it is the journal that is new and improved

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Reflexive Journal # 3 was Selected for Improvement

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Reflexive Journal # 3 was Selected for Improvement

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Re: My Reflective Journal # 3

by Donna St Marthe - Saturday, 12 November 2016, 7:11 PM

Sometimes I wonder what this course is really about because how can someone grade me based on what is going on in my head? I am asking myself this question because I feel like I have nothing new to reflect about, I am out of reflections. Looking back at the activities I have done there is a common theme. There is no doubt that i learnt things about myself I was not aware of but now I am brain tired, flustered..........No reflections coming to me. So what does that mean for me??

Does little progression mean I will not be a good reflective-reflexive practitioner?

Does that determine I do not pass this course?

Thinking Out Loud

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Re: My Reflective Journal # 3by Debra-Dreana Marshall-Stuart - Monday, 14 November 2016, 6:27 PM For your next post:
When you process your experience in writing or just in thought, these questions should also help you reflect and learn.

In what ways have I changed?

What are the lessons I have learned that I never want to forget?

What are some skills I have learned?

What are some things I might do to make the transition easier?

What have been the important things about this course that I want to share with family and friends?

Share with us, your responses to these questions, linking them to some of the activities you have done so far.

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Re: My Reflective Journal # 3by Donna St Marthe - Thursday, 17 November 2016, 12:43 AM lol....I am not surprise your response requires me to do more reflections, so I am going to dig deep to see what I get.....I manage my time better and when I fall short I get up before dawn to caught with assignments. I never want to forget the benefits of reflections (although now I am a bit tired of reflecting) I do appreciate the awareness it has given me. I have learnt how to recognize my strengths and weaknesses, I have learnt how to a reflect ad analyze situations before reacting and how to use reflection to aid me in not making the same mistakes. Personally based on my reflection of this semester I will reduce on the amount of course I take up next semester (brain overload). I will share the importance of knowing your learning style, this will help anyone who is pursuing a higher form of education. Also I will definitely share the importance of reflections because it is an avenue to realize the things you need to change about yourself for you to become better than who you was yesterday.

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Reflecting on the moment in time I wrote this journal, I was overwhelmed by this course and could not understand why I have to reflect so often. Now that I have gotten time to look over all my activities I able to reflect a bit clearer, here it goes:

When I process my experiences and reflect I am now able to see the ways in which I have changed. This can be seen in my response to formative assessment activity #12 (My Top Ten Insights) with my #1 being “the importance of being able to adapt and embrace changed for learning success”. I am now of the opinion that there is no way, “I” can be successful if I do not realize the importance change plays in my life. I no longer find online learning difficult but I think it is very convenient in this 21st century and I was surely able to benefit for this.

There are a few things I never want to forget one of them are unit #3 reflective-reflective practice for life-long learning. One of the reasons I never want to forget this unit is because, I personally believe that learning never ends, no matter what age you are, also this unit addresses the continuous need for development as a professional. In other words this unit addresses how life-long learning should be a way of life for individuals. Also my learning preference which is (aural), some of the strategies that were suggested to me example tape recording myself reading notes are practices I will continue to do throughout my academic life. Last but no least the importance of being a self- empowered learner (unit 1) I chose this unit because it brought attention to my strengths and weaknesses along with routine behavior that may have been affecting me in a positive or negative way.

Throughout the commencement of this course the #1 skilled I have learnt is “learning from my experiences” the ability to be a reflective/reflexive learner. This can be confirmed if my activities from the beginning of the course are compared to those towards the ending, not for forgetting an examination of my reflective journals will also support my claim. I have come to the realization that in order for me to have made the transition easier for myself was to stop complaining and focus of the benefits of online learning and trying to derive the benefits for being a having increase knowledge of myself through reflective/reflexive learning.

To conclude this journal I think the things I would share with others is that: it is paramount to know your learning preference when pursuing your education. Also I would share with them what reflective/reflexive learning is and how it can benefit learner, last but not lease. I would encourage persons to define what “success” means to them, as for me I agreed with Mr Wooden theory of success in unit 1, formative assessment activity # 6. I believe knowing what success means to you will surely aid one on their path towards being a self- directed learner.

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(2) Select a minimum of 15 artifacts from Learning Exchange to support your growth & development based on the following guidelines.

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(2) Select a minimum of 15 artifacts from Learning Exchange to support your growth & development based on the following guidelines.

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Below are the artifacts for Units 1-4

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Unit 4 - Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning

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Unit 4 - Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning

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Unit 3 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice: Foundation for Life- Long Learning.

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Unit 3 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice: Foundation for Life- Long Learning.

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Course Goal #5 is present in this artifacts.

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Unit 2 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Exploring the Meaning Making Landscape for Learning Success 

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Unit 2 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Exploring the Meaning Making Landscape for Learning Success 

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Unit 1- Preparing the Self-Empowered Practitioner Art

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Unit 1- Preparing the Self-Empowered Practitioner Art

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EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT CHANGES MADE TO SELF-PROFILE.

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EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT CHANGES MADE TO SELF-PROFILE.

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In reference to question #2, paragraph #3, I made mention that "I do have the tendency to avoid change". Based on the activities that I have completed I think it is appropriate to say that I now welcome change.

In question #3 which spoke of characteristics, I will make an additional characteristic to my portfolio: I am one who speak up for what they believe in, this is evident in my journals.

In question #4 which spoke of pattern, I will make an addition to the patterns:

I would also make an addition to my attributes: Reflective/Reflexive Practitioner as a skilled that I have acquired and this is support by my journals along with course activities.

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Benefits Accrued From Portfolio Preparation. 

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Benefits Accrued From Portfolio Preparation. 

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·         I gained knowledge on how to go about preparing a portfolio.

·         It allowed me to recognize my progress throughout this course.

·         I gained a better understanding of myself  “self-knowledge”.

·         It allowed me to have a personal record on hand for future purposes.

·         It allowed me to recognized where more changes has to take place.

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This portfolio will give you a comprehensive view of my progress throughout the duration of this course “Foundation for Learning Success”. In this portfolio you will be able to identify where I have grown as a self-empowered leaner and gained more knowledge about myself than when I first began. To help facilitate my growth I had to follow the course guidelines along with setting my personal goals that I wanted to achieved,  the course had (7) goals and they are: 1. Interrogate perspectives and frameworks associated with reflective-reflexive practice, 2. Develop their capacity to better manage self as learners by applying empowerment strategies, 3. Increase self-knowledge for development of a personal profile through the application of reflective-reflexive practice,  4. Improve cognitive and psycho-social meaning-making strategies that are progressive/development and transferable,  5.Develop the intellectual qualities and skills associated with a lifelong orientation to learning, 6.Become active members of a team/community by contributing to team/community life as reflective-reflexive learner-practitioner, Utilize technology as a multi-purpose tool to support and provided evidence of learning and/or change and to validate and enhance personal and collaborative responsibility for the change /learning process. Whereas my personal goals are: 1.To understand what it is to be a reflective/reflexive practitioner,  2.To adopt reflective/reflexive learning as a way of life for life-long learning,  3.To gain as much self-knowledge as possible,  4.To be able to understand the importance of change and finally, 5.To experience the benefits of reflection to be able to recommend it to others.

This course has introduce me to the term reflective/reflexive practitioner and the need to reflect. To enable me to make better decisions based on my reflections and to assess my decision to see if there is need for improvement. It also taught me the importance of being a self-empowered practitioner presenting me with the opportunity to take charge of how and when I learn. It groomed me for adopting the way of life as a life-long learner to add to my continual development. I was fortunate to work along side other wonderful individual which ended in collaboration that was very success and it motivate me to be a team leader in on of my up coming semester. Last but not least I was able to do effective reflective writing and produce journals that was required of me by the course.

As I prepared my portfolio I realize that I have taken the necessary steps that are required of me to be an effective to be a reflective/reflexive practitioner and you will find evidence of this in this portfolio. I have increase self-knowledge and this has enable me to produce this portfolio and allow me to make meaning of my past decisions. Now I look forward to doing group work, I have attain the skill of reflective/reflexive practice and I am able to do better reflective writing. Overall I am better at managing my time and "change" is my new best friend.