6165 Communication and Collaboration, Week 8

During the past 8 weeks, you and your colleagues forged a collaborative learning community; you shared information and insights with each other and supported each other. As you prepare to move on into your specializations, take a minute and think about how your colleagues have supported you, how you have supported them, and what you wish for your colleagues as they continue on their professional path. If you wish, share your contact information so you can stay in touch and continue to encourage and support each other as you move through the program.

             

            During the past eight weeks I have had the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions to a wonderful group of colleagues.  I hope that the comments and feedback I have given them have encouraged them to think more deeply about their discussion posts.  I have appreciated my colleague’s comments and questions on my posts, as they have enabled me to see situations from a different perspective.  I would have to say that the most thought provoking insights I received from this group of colleagues were the personal situations/experiences, which really helped me to understand alternate points of view and to consider how it relates to other situations.

I still enjoy looking at blogs of previous colleagues and sometimes leaving comments, as I have found significant value in the input of my peers throughout this program.  I plan on keeping this blog after the completion of my degree and my email address is jill.stein@waldenu.edu for anyone who would like to keep in contact.