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Week 16 - Project B Reflection

Reflect on the outcome of Project B. What worked? What did not? Why? Did you use your peer for feedback? If so, discuss the feedback your peer provided; if not, explain why? Discuss your clients feedback? What did you use? What did you reject? Why?
I enjoyed working on project B.  I had originally contacted Dr. Taylor for a project he had in mind but he couldn’t meet with me early enough for me to develop his project so I contacted Dr. Holyfield who was in need of finding an electronic option for a portfolio all dental students are to keep for the four years they are dental students.  The reason for the portfolio is that the dental school gets accredited every seven years.  Part of the accreditation process requires the school provides the committee examples of works in which students have been introduced to some specific standards.  In the past, students were keeping a binder with paper copies of specific assignments. Due to having 400+ students and only one faculty member responsible for all the binder/portfolios, Dr. Holyfield was in grade need of using an electronic version.
I looked at Google Docs, free websites, and PowerPoint as possible alternatives but because some of the assignment content has confidential patient information, we could not use any outside application.  After looking around, I was informed that the Texas A&M eCampus had already purchased the Blackboard ePortfolio application.  This provides us with an opportunity to use this application without having to spend more money.  Although the ePortfolio has some issues, like links breaking if the students change their template and having to re-share their ePortfolio every time changes are made, it was our best option. 
The feedback I got from my peer was very helpful.  She suggested I break my video into chunks.  I like this idea but unfortunately, I run out of time.  I hope that once I have some free time available, I can go back and break my video as my peer suggested.  The feedback I got from Dr. Holyfield was positive.  She made sure the recommendations I made about the structure of the ePortfolio was correct.  She does hope that the two issues with this application get resolved. 

I have to say this was a really positive experience but it required a lot of work as not only did I work on the step-by-step instructions and the video, I also worked on the three grading rubrics.  I will continue to work on this project until I see it complete.

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