Assessment method used during the Innovative Experience
To earn the credit for the Innovation Experience, I needed to:
- Establish a reflective journal (in Google Docs) documenting the ongoing learning during the IE. I composed an entry of between 500 and 1000 words every two weeks. These reflections connected new learning and experiences with prior learning and experiences, indicated frustrations or lessons learned.
- Write a paper that describes my experiences, reflects on them in a summative fashion, and connects the learning to existing research and theory. This paper was submitted at least one week prior to the end of the semester.
- To combine the above two assessments together and expand the assessment of this innovative experience the end project is this reflective e-portfolio of my experiences which includes links to my reflective journal, various artifacts or other documents I assisted with and a reflective video about the process of learning.