Reflecting On The Course Experience

I began this course with goals to significantly improve my writing. I knew there were challenges for me to overcome, because I have not written much at all since high school, which has been more than twenty four years ago. Nonetheless, I was up for the challenge and each week I made sure to do exactly as instructed in the weekly syllabus, reading each every assignment very carefully. At first I felt overwhelmed, but as I completed the homework and discussion post assignments for the weeks prior to the major papers, the overwhelming feelings subsided and I concentrated on each task at hand.

A goal I have for myself in regards to this challenge, in this course and beyond, is to not get lost in the details and the wavering viewpoints and to find specific ideas and thoughts to focus on to help guide my papers to be more clear. I believe that I am a decent writer, but I can always get better and I believe learning how to focus on fewer points will make my essays stronger. But, with my skills now, I expect to clearly and successfully express my ideas to my professors and classmates through my papers and homework assignments. I hope, as my writing skills develop and progress, I will have a successful four years at Boston University and in my future

When I was still in scouting, several friends and I spent a week at a scouting camp. Boy scout summer camps are usually secluded in the forest. While I was there I became more confident in myself and learned the value of connecting back with nature. The reason for this is they want you to get away from the city and get you back into nature for a week. This idea is unique and there are no longer many places who do this anymore. While you are in the camp you forget about what you were doing back in the city, and you just focus on nature and hanging out with your friends in camp.

I think one of the most important things I learned from the course content was how to look at different situations to explain certain behaviors or norms. This is the first sociology course I have ever taken, but I have taken a few psychology courses, and have found that while in this class my mind automatically jumped to personal explanations instead of societal ones. For example, when discussing deviance and the question of why someone would be deviant, my first thoughts were things like perhaps a personality disorder, or parental figures who were also deviant; it was harder to look at a broader picture and think about things like social class, outer controls, and eternal influences. Looking at and asking about sociological reasons behind behavior is an important lesson that I learned from this class.

While attending lectures of Life Style Modifications For Community Leaders, it adds new information, and changing my bad habit to the better one. Actually, from the first class I realized that our body is not constant not just anatomy and physiology. But it is a most complicated system it react with universe, energy, vibrations, and power, which located everywhere in and around us. Throughout classes and my colleagues presentations, I got a historical story for each alternative medicine style how it started, its benefits, and how can use it effectively. Hence, classes flow began with the overview of the human power and how it affects by energy fields and vibration. For the first time, I have heard about chakras his designed points in our body that it needs proper clearance through several mediation styles. When a person uses meditation to remove bad checkers, the human body will positively react physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Even food is our natural medicine, so we have to monitor our food ingredients carefully; for example, garlic is our natural antibiotics, turmeric powder is an antitoxin and protect our body from cancer, onion and cabbage is the best insulin stimulants. Not only monitor food ingredients, but also the ways of cooking it; namely, microwave converts the molecules inside food until it loses its benefits. Introducing meditation by our class guests Mr. Duggan Selkirk, who taught us how practice

The following paper will demonstrate the skills and knowledge I learned through the course. This course had taught me many things in leadership such as management vs leadership, emotional intelligence, team stages of development, situational leadership, servant leadership, and Myers-Brigs Personality assessment tool. Also, while taking this course, I also identified my dependable strengths as well as my areas of weakness.

Studying Learning and Communicating Online has been a very important experience for my academic and professional development because I have learnt skills that will keep me up to date with the drivers of change such as the new media ecology, extreme longevity, the rise of smart machines and new global connections(Institute for the Future, 2010).In this discussion I am therefore going to reflect on my journey of learning since week one to show how my goals, skills and understanding of learning have been transformed by learning about the 21st century skills. In the conclusion, I will briefly discuss the future implications of acquiring such skills for my personal and career development.

Going back to what were my beliefs about experience and learning meant to me, I still feel that experience and learning has always been a part of life. We learn in different ways and process different understandings differently. But as I furthered my knowledge on how experience and learning in adulthood are understood, I have learned much more.

This portfolio is reaching its end and it is now time for me to start reflecting about my practicum period. Last year was a great year and a challenging one as well.

Going into English 111 in August, I had no idea what to expect. This was my first experience of college classes, and walking into the classroom on the first Tuesday of the semester, all I knew was it was going to be different. As the class period went on, however, we were introduced to Moodle and then the seven student learning outcomes. These made the goals of the class clearer to me.

Throughout my field experience this semester at Oasis Catholico, I was exposed to many different areas of educational psychology and I was able to see these practices being implemented as well as the results that they produced. Throughout my field experience, however; Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, intrinsic extrinsic motivation, and feedback as well as its contribution to student success took precedence in my weekly visits and allowed for my reflection on concepts discussed throughout this course and how they pertained to my own experiences. I believe that I was able to utilize these concepts and thought processes to gain personal insight and professional opinions about these practices and their overall successes within a real classroom setting.

Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and informative are just three words which can be used to describe my experience from taking this expository writing course. Coming into the course, I was a bit unsure what to expect from it. For instance, I wondered whether this would be a class where we will write a bunch of fruitless essays or whether this class will sticks to its theme race in America and spark meaningful discussion among students of various backgrounds. Fortunately, it ended up being the latter and was a lot better than I had initially expected — despite it still being a Friday afternoon bomb.

Feeling motivated, I have decided to narrate my learning experience on what I have learned about through my formal education as well as my experience in learning to live.

The purpose of the project was to build a Course Management System to help teachers design courses online, manage the activities in the course and effectively communicate with students in their class and collaborate with them in the course.

During the summer, I volunteered along the downtown Yonge neighborhood for Epilepsy Toronto’s annual BuskerFest. It was a three-day event, running from August 27th to 30th. I decided to volunteer at a BuskerFest because I felt that there would be many opportunities to apply and improve my own skills while gaining valuable experiences and having fun. My friends have also encouraged me to volunteer as they have had positive experiences from previous years. My role was to monitor and run a couple different attractions in the “Family Fun Zone” at the festival. Some of my responsibilities were to collect tickets, inform visitors, and keep order at the attractions. We would usually take 2 hour shifts at a certain attraction before changing to a different one, to keep things exciting as this was a full day event.