As I began this course I thought this would be another typical research class that would involve me visiting libraries and online resources to accomplish yet another written task. I quickly realized that action research was not the ordinary type of research that I envisioned. It quickly excited me that I was going to be responsible for accomplishing a task that I was already planning on for this school year. However, now it would be even better, as I would have to support it with more formal research as a solid background, data would be tracked more thoroughly, and formal graphs and information would be presented to the team. In short, having to create this for school makes me more "on my toes."
This course did a good job of consistently building from the previous week's assignment. I feel that the initial foundation for my plan has been built and thoroughly established. We are lucky as a class that this course fell during the summer months and we can now implement our plans.
I love technology but was leery when I realized all the collaboration and feedback that was going to be necessary in this class. I am very open to feedback but I am not use to freely expressing my ideas to people I do not know, especially over the WORLD wide web. However, I quickly learned the value of group collaboration. The feedback that was given to me as well as seeing the formatting and ideas of others enabled me to be more thorough in my own action plan.
I have enjoyed this course and I am anxious to begin my plan!
Sarah, I think I was thinking the same thing. I was worried about hours of reading journals that may or may not lead to anything other then a well written paper on the subject. I also agree with you that starting the action research right at the beginning of the school year is helpful. Good luck, I will keep reading.
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