During the last eight weeks

Blog Assignment

During the past 8 weeks, you and your colleagues forged a collaborative learning community; you shared information and insights with each other and supported each other. As you prepare to move on into your specializations, take a minute and think about how your colleagues have supported you, how you have supported them, and what you wish for your colleagues as they continue on their professional path. If you wish, share your contact information so you can stay in touch and continue to encourage and support each other as you move through the program.

Generally speaking, I appreciate the insights and information I have received from undertaking this noble course. By taking this course, I had to form a collaborative learning community with my peers. The collaborative learning community was significant in facilitating the deliberations of the discussion assignments in this course.  The discussion assignments involved in the analyzing of certain characteristics of communication and collaborative skills and dispositions. The collaborative learning community also aided me in understanding the viewpoints of communication and collaborative skills from this course. I believe that working together, one can easily grasp the various features of a given subject matter as compared to reading alone or working in isolation.

The collaborative learning community also has another important aspect. In such a community you meet people with different social identities and from different cultural backgrounds. Therefore, there will be different and diverse comprehension of the communication and collaborative skills. This variance of understanding ensured that as a learning community we are exposed to diverse comprehensions of the subject matter. Ultimately, this leads to better comprehension of the subject matter and also leads to critical thinking and stimulating thinking.

In the learning community, some of the members were from different professional backgrounds. Therefore, there was sufficient exposure on how we can relate the communication and collaborative skills in the various job specifications. Though there exist different professions in our society, the applicability of the communication and collaborative skills is similar and certain. In these professions, there are teams and the respective members must embrace these skills in the personal endeavors or in the search of the team’s overall vision and mission.

It is equally important to appreciate the way my learning community embraced my viewpoints on this course. I have worked in various institutions and this has exposed me to more experiences on what fosters or hinders the communication and collaborative process in a team. I was able to share real-time examples on various instances in my life. I had to embrace this skill to ensure effective communication and collaboration. In fact, I narrated the consequences of not embracing these skills in a team or between two or more communicators.

To my distinguished colleagues, I would wish you the very best in your future endeavors and dispositions. Always remember to adhere and embrace what we have learned in this course and this will ensure that your undertakings will be effective. Aim for the best in your professions and remember that the sky is never the limit, you are the one who can only limit your dreams and desires in life. All the best friends.

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My Email: sheila.brantley56@gmail.com

Walden University M.S. in Early Childhood Studies

Criteria for Blog Assignments

Quality of Work Submitted	Satisfactory 4/4 points	3/4 points	2/4 points	1/4 points	Unsatisfactory   0/4 points
Adherence to Assignment Expectations The extent to which work meets the assigned criteria.	Assignment meets expectations and reflects graduate-level critical, analytical thinking. All key components are included: Initial post submitted with 2 comments to other students’ blogs.	Initial post submitted with 1 comment to other students’ blogs.	Initial post not submitted with 2 comments to other students’ blogs.  OR Initial post submitted with no comments to other students’ blogs.	Initial post not submitted with 1 comment to other students’ blogs.	Does not fulfill the expectations of the assignment. Key components are not included:  Initial post not submitted with no comments to other students’ blogs.

It is expected that all blog assignments will be submitted according to the assignment due dates indicated. As with discussions, it is important to blog posts are completed within the week assigned so that others have a chance to both read and respond to your posts.  For that reason, late assignments may receive a maximum score of 2/4. Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the faculty member and in accordance with the Late Policy.