If there is a component to this course that I appreciated most, it would be the variety of topics and formats covered. It was satisfying to revisit some ideas and theories that I'd learned elsewhere, like those on cognitive load theory, self-determination, and Constructivism. Others, like the readings on multimedia formatting, went into a level of granularity that I had seldom thought of before - and in some instances felt challenged by given my own personal pedagogy dwells more in the analogue. Aspects of digital design that keep dual channel processing and other truths about attention and learning in consideration mostly made sense to me, but some parts of Mayer's set of Principles felt so nuanced as to be hairsplitting. Even still, those experiences lent well and meaningfully to my own navigation of Wix for the Case Study, and the multimedia approaches we had to take to the Personal Competency Model and Conference Poster assignments. I already have plans to incorporate elements from some of these projects into my work and in materials I'll likely be producing for future professional development sessions. I'd never thought to have Conference Poster-making as a writing and philosophy challenge before, and think I'll work on adapting something like this with my own team of early career practitioners. It is an assignment with a very clear usefulness. 

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I was previously with Mills College working through my Master's of Educational Leadership before they merged with Northeastern, and because of that separated from the cohort I was apart of. So to not have an immediate sense of community with the asynchronous nature of this program was jarring, to say the least. (This course and the other that I am taking are my first with Northeastern.) But to have been able to work with Giselle on the Conference Poster, and to at least have been able to find the threads of each of your work, perspective, and experience on these discussion boards has been lovely to dwell on and respond to week after week. I'm likely going to remember responses from some of you just as heartily as I will some passages from the texts we've read!