Residency Journal - Day 4

1. Identify personal insights, moments of critical questioning, and comments or ideas from today’s workshop that have impacted you.

Up to this point, I realize now that I have a greater impact on the class and on the other students than I thought. I believe there is a huge issue with charisma and leadership. With charisma, someone like myself can turn into an effective speaker, full of confidence, and one that can direct a team into the future. That does not necessarily mean doing everything or forcing my ideas upon everyone, but I can impose my opinions and be asked what I think.
I realize that even though are presentation was good, there was a great deal of opportunity to improve. We did not discuss the team dynamic in great depth, and I realize we did not walk through the process very well. There was no ‘understood leader’, but I would put myself as the closest to that. I felt we all accommodated and collaborated with each other to come up with a game plan. I would like to take a journey down the entire process. It is important to take notes throughout the project regarding dynamics, power, authority, and decision making paradigms.
Content wise, we should have improved our problem statement, with more along the lines of the problem with online learning teams is that asynchronous communication results in…..
Provide more depth regarding tools available, why we think this is an issue, and perhaps ask why two more times to get to the level we want to be at.

2. Describe why these insights, questions, and ideas are important to you. What effect do they have and what dilemmas, questions, or possibilities do they raise? How do these issues affect the clarity, order, confusion, or chaos of your thinking?

Again, there is so much more I can do if I do not limit myself and provide greater structure, sythesis, critical and creative thinking, and work on dynamics.
We talked about our situatedness yet again, so I really need to focus on where I am coming from with that perspective, or where I believe the author is coming from, based on what I read. What assumptions or biases could cause these reactions.
Synthesis is putting the two articles together and coming up with something new. In the case of the assignment, I did more compare and contrast. I should have pursued the line of implementing more discussion on controversial topics along with writing and lecturing in the classroom.
I think this is going to affect the overall structure of my writing and the way I analyze and present the data. Hopefully, all of this will add more clarity, order, and create less confusion within my processes.

3. What issues, questions, and dilemmas are you going to explore further? Why and how? How will your actions influence who you are and how you relate to others? What relational nets can you construct to continue this process of reflective and critical learning?

I really need to spend time thinking critically, asking why, think about assumptions I am making and how that applies to my situatedness.