Contribution to My learning Community (Courses 5303 & 5305)

Disruptive Innovation 5305 35/50

Eportfolio 5303 85/100

This journey has had many frustrating, worrying, uncertain, happy, and satisfying moments. Without fear of being wrong, doing this Master's has been one of the best decisions of my life; challenging yourself every day to achieve a goal is exciting.

Every week I feel more confident and secure. Finding my wonderful work group, "the bilingual girls," fills me with confidence and the desire to apply 100 percent of everything we have learned.

Each of them (Estefania, Iliana, and Vitalia) has a unique work style, and their contributions have been vital to not dying in these eight weeks! (lol).

We found an organized and efficient way to integrate and work as a team; at the beginning, each separately, we were lost. However, everything came together once we started with the weekly meetings, chats, shared files, feedback, and moral support. We started to make this machine work very well.

We have a common objective, and that was key for our group to be successful; in my opinion, we are all teachers, and we are highly committed to creating an impact on our students; we are all Latinas, and we know the significant challenges that the Hispanic migrant community has in education.

Our goal is not only to achieve a Master's; it is to be agents of change in our community and thus achieve high results.

I tried to watch all the videos and read all the lectures, maybe one or two I did not do, partly because, in the beginning, I felt overwhelmed and lost; once I understood the importance of these discussions, I was pretty active in the classes and our group meetings.

I loved the creation of blogs and sharing my idea and vision on different topics; I am anxious to start the school year and share with my work group my portfolio and the million ideas that I have.

I must confess that reading and writing in a language other than my mother tongue was quite challenging; although English has been my working language for eight years, it became a challenge; the academic level is different from the work level; here is an excellent opportunity for improvement.

Key Contributions and Support Contributions

Iliana and Estefania are our tech girls and have contributed extraordinarily to training and ideas.

Vitala gives us great ideas and is in charge of sending us the links that support our investigations.

I am in charge of scheduling Zoom meetings, reviewing the agenda for each meeting, and ensuring that we meet the meeting objectives and meet the times that we establish for each topic.

Our WhatsApp group allows us to stay connected and make quick contributions

Improve my Skills

1. Reading and typing

I need to improve my comprehension and writing when I write academic texts or specialized topics.

1. APA rules

Returning to college after 20 years takes work; updating yourself on these standards should be a point to consider.

1. Technology

I think I am at an intermediate level, but that is precisely the motivation that led me to start the Master, so as I am next to a Master's Degree in Ed Digital Learning, technology will be a subject that I will never stop wanting to learn and improve.

Improvements in our Group

1. Preparation of the topics to be discussed during our meetings, we need to be more concrete and efficient in managing time.

2. Get more feedback and contributions.