A small reflection on a challenging and rewarding process…

…I learned a great deal during the project construction. Putting Belshaw’s Essentials into an internal intellectual place was a useful exercise.

In conclusion, I was able to make an intellectual and emotional leap to a different level of understanding in the process of creating a constructive online community: Building respect, honesty, and openness within the online classroom, places demands on the instructor that require the development of special sets of skills. The construction of Module 8 in New Media Literacies, #CI5323, assisted me in taking another step toward becoming a competent online facilitator.