Portfolio Assesment

Self-Regulation: Component One
     During class I believe that I behave well and I can co-operate with people great as well. I attend every, and if I were to miss a class, I would make sure to keep up from any work that I missed on the day(s) that I missed. Whenever I come to class, I come prepared with all the work that I would have had completed the day before. If an assignment requires a partner or partners, I make sure to chose wisely, someone who will do work, who can co-operate, who can stay focused, on task and lastly, well behaved. When I work in class, I try to make the most of what I can do and use it to my advantage by asking questions or any concerns that I would have with an assignment or group project, I try to do as much as I can in the time that I have. Also, in group projects or assignments, I try to keep the conversation on task so we can keep working and try to get as much work done as we can we the group is all together at one place at one time. I try to complete assignments if they're assigned for a period of 4-5 days, I like to get that assignment done the day before hand so I can proof read it and check any mistakes or errors or something that I might want to add to take out. Whenever I am talking in a group, I keep my voice calm and I don't want to yell so everyone can here, I keep my voice at a good tone and not with anger, but so people can here what I have to say without them thinking that I'm trying to yell at them. Creating strategies for getting work done efficiently is key. What I like to do is either everyone in the group works on one thing and can get a lot of info and work done in a small time with great effort. Or, another one is where everyone takes 2 days and looks up different things on the topic so the group can get many things done at one time but in a longer time period. Sometimes, not everything goes as I would like or a mistake happens, but what I learn from that is, you have to make mistakes to learn, so I learn from what doesn't work well or what works great and build on that to make it even better and more successful. Along with that is taking risks. Risk taking is good because you can learn from what doesn't work, or you can learn what might be better than what you thought before and then build on from what you just took a risk on. It can also be risky from taking information from websites; one website might have something great, but another might have totally different information so you have to keep digging into what you want to know to find out what is actually true or fact. Another thing is having a balance from two points of view or else it could be very bias and subjective since you are only get information from one view. For Self-Regulation, I think I deserve a G in this category.

Quality Of Communication Skills: Component Two
     My skill set has changed a lot throughout the class of Planning 10. It has changed so much from what I am used to before. I'm used to typing everything out, but then printing everything, not putting it on a website. For every assignment, I have tried my hardest for practically every assignment. I type it because I want to get something out from what I write, I want to go home happy knowing that I knew I typed something useful to my life instead of another paper that I wont look at ever again. I want to write things out so I can look back and probably get information for the future. Also, I write with a purpose so I can use this in a grad transition or in a resume instead of joking around typing nothing, for no purpose to get it out of the way and finished with no effort. I also believe that I meet the criteria and complete all assignments for all different kinds of assignments and projects. I think that I deserve 80% in the Communication category because I do communicate with my peers around me and I help people out around me when they need help. For example the collage that I did, I asked for help for things that my peers liked that I might have liked, and also I gave help and ideas to other people if they didn't fully know what to get that they might have forgot about. I can work on communicating more with people who I don't usually talk to or people that aren't around me and sit near me.

Contributes To The Learning Environment: Component Three
     Contributing to the learning environment is something that I can defiantly improve on. What I contribute is that I help people around me and give them advice of what to do and how to do it and what to change. As far as taking in information from other, I do change that. I don't comment and post a lot on other peoples blogs or anything, but the people around me are the people who I help. I don't change a lot from the comments because I haven't seen anything, but there might be a few things that I could change to make things better and more understandable. I do help people out if they are having trouble with technology issues or if they are having trouble with trying to put something up or changing something. I think I should deserve 70% in this category of contributing to the learning workplace.

Student Learning: Component Four
     Whenever I am working, my most happy time to work is if I am in a group who all want to be a similar career as mine, who are interested in the same things as what I want to do in the future, or hands on work. I am the most engaged in an assignment when I know that it will change something about me and I can learn from it instead of it being another assignment that I will forget about and wont care about in a week. I'm also eager to learn when I know that a task will be useful to my life and I can take that away and use it in everyday life ex. wood working. I don't mind but I don't prefer working from just textbook work, I don't like to just get information from a textbook and trying to learn it. I need to learn it, then get hands on work, and then I can fully learn.

Overall Grade Percentage
     I feel that my overall grade percentage should be in the mid 80's because I have demonstrated the progress from the beginning from talking to my peers around me and not trying my best, to now being more focused on group projects and assignments and keeping talk to more of the topic of helping others and asking for help.