Learning Artefacts

The Artefacts here are to demonstrate that I have reflected on items shared in class or things that I have been responsible for learning in class or for homework. A number of times, throughout the course we worked on a rubric with which our Artefacts would be evaluated. We were lucky to have Dr. Juuso Nieminen, Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and an Honorary Research Fellow at Deakin University (Nieminen, 2021), work with us to create our own co-created assessment tool. If you would like to read about how I arrived at the final product, you can read about it by clicking the Week 12 button. If you care to read through this entire website, you will notice that there is a great deal of information here. 

This course covered a lot of material and I learned a great deal because of it. Now, for just a moment, imagine you are Professor Ruttenberg-Rozen and you are duty-bound to evaluate the learning of an entire class worth of websites, assorted repositories, and papers. One can only imagine the daunting task of doing so. In the end, I designed the rubric so that it assigned an overall grade at which one would arrive by dipping into the above Artefacts and Reflections and judging the overall growth. I have consistently aimed for an A+ but alas, all students cannot be awarded such a mark. Like any competition, one can only submit their work to the juror and hope that somehow, it is chosen as the one. Having submitted artwork to juries and been rejected, only to submit the same work to another jury and have it accepted, I know that in all cases, it is a matter of taste. We all can't love everything the same way. This body of work is respectfully submitted, and it is the juror's choice to evaluate it according to their standards. I for one, will support that choice wholeheartedly.

On another note, I attempted to base my reflection format on those proffered online by various universities. There are many ways to write a reflection. In the end, I settled for one from the University of Waterloo's Writing Centre. I chose it because it is a Canadian University and because I like the example provided. I have included it below. One thing I did learn was that in Canada we spell the word artefact and in the U.S.A. it is spelled artifact. Unfortunately, I began this site spelling it the way of our lovely neighbors to the south. Please excuse my error if I didn't catch them all. I like to think this is the type of thing that keeps me humble! ;)