As this course winds down to an end, I come to realize just how much I have learned. Combing through all of the assignments to choose which ones I should include in my web folio opened my eyes to my progression of technical writing skills.
Online learning is not all that new to me but the way this course was structured forced me to change my learning habits. In my previous experiences, the online classroom involved pages of lecture notes to skim through that would be eventually tested in an exam worth 50% of your grade. The depth of learning that occurred in these classrooms was fairly superficial now that I look back. In this classroom however, the weekly engagement with the material through short assignments really help the material sink in. It was more about learning how to use these skills rather than just learning that they exist.
50 hour work weeks, meant that my learning approach had to change. I had to make the effort early in order to finish assignments on time; which was not always possible. There was certainly more than one late night!
These time management skills that I am working on in this course, and I’m sure many others, are critical to my career as a veterinary technician. Being able to juggle multiple patients and treatments is certainly a challenge where exceptional time management can certainly be useful.
I am certainly grateful for the time the professor put in to designing this course. The assignments were well through out and relevant to the material discussed in the textbook. All of this practice certainly has me feeling confident for any technical writing I will need to do in my career!