My Week in Review
I really liked how my colleague, Erin Benjamin, reviewed her goals on her major project by colour coding them, so I thought I would do the same. Here is my key:
GREEN = I achieved my goal this week! Yay Me!!
BLUE = I need to revisit this goal this week. I wouldn’t necessarily say I failed at this goal, but it requires a bit more attention in order to be considered accomplished.
RED = I didn’t get a chance to complete this goal and it got pushed on the back-burner. I will look at trying to accomplish it this week!
My goals for this week were to:
- Continue to attend and participate in prenatal yoga classes both through online resources and in my face-to-face communities.
- Pin more prenatal yoga resources.
- Get at least 20 posts on my Instagram account.
- Decide on how I will summarize my learning project.
I was very thankful to get feedback this week from Katia Hildebrandt. I appreciated the detailed review on how I was doing in the class and in particular with this learning project. Not only was the feedback detailed, it was personalized and I could tell there was a genuine interest in my progress in the class and provided me with ways in which I could improve. As the tweet states below, feedback that is received at the end is not feedback, it is evaluation. I am finding EC&I 831 is not only teaching us about effective pedagogical approaches, but is also modeling it.
One recommendation in my feedback was a join an online prenatal yoga community. I found an online community with Prenatal Yoga Centre. In this community I am able to read blog posts, comment, and connect with others. I have enjoyed following the blog posts in this community and have learned a lot from them, but don’t find this is the most functional space for my learning. I will continue to be involved in this community to see if maybe with some time it becomes more natural.
I have enjoyed growing my community on Instagram. This is where I am finding most of my learning and connecting is happening. I find that Instagram for the purpose of my learning project is very similar to Twitter for my professional learning network relating to teaching. It is a very natural space, I am able to quickly get a “snapshot” of yoga resources and motivation and if I wish to investigate further, I am able to dig deeper into the post and the account.
I am looking forward to a slower week with report cards being finished so that I can take some more time this week to work on my learning project!
My goals for next week are to:
- Continue to attend and participate in prenatal yoga classes both through online resources and in my face-to-face communities.
- Pin a few more prenatal yoga resources.
- Share my learning and connect with others through my Instagram account.
- Decide on how I will summarize my learning project.
Thanks for following!!
Kristina Boutilier 