{"id":16156,"date":"2026-06-03T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/?guid=88ee0df63f2d489951bd5794f6c1072c"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:01:20","slug":"a-few-final-thoughts-as-we-near-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/a-few-final-thoughts-as-we-near-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"A few final thoughts as we near completion"},"content":{"rendered":"by Russ Wilde. &nbsp;<p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><\/p><p>Good Morning Everyone -\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>I have been reading the posts for <i>Unit 4 \u2013 Activity 1 |\nDiscussing Impacts of Digital Learning<\/i> as they are appearing on the blogs.\nThere is some fantastic work and insight represented here, and I thank everyone\nfor the strong effort and willingness to share in an <strong>open<\/strong> environment. <\/p>\n\n<p>One thought that has occurred to me as we near the end of the\ncourse is that when completing your <i>Assignment 1 - Part 2:\u00a0Reflect on\nyour Digital Presence<\/i> paper, it is important to remember that it is OK for\nthis to be a truly personal reflection on your experience. In other words,\nthere are no \"right or wrong\" answers as you work through how your\nlearning and\u2014especially\u2014experience in creating your blog has impacted your\nviews on<strong> issues like openness versus privacy, personal versus professional,\netc.<\/strong> What is important is that you critically reflect on the experience and the\nways that your initial ideas and views have changed or perhaps been reinforced.\nBe sure to read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/assessment\/assignment-1\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Assignment 1-2 instructions<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0carefully for\nguidance on the kinds of issues you may wish to explore. If you encounter\nchallenges in getting started, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/writeonline.ca\/reflective-essay.php?content=intro\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Reflective\nWriting<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0resources offered by Wilfred Laurier University offer some\nwonderful guidance on this process.<\/p>\n\n<p>As always, please let me know should you have questions or\nrun into challenges.<\/p>\n\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n\n<p>Russ<\/p><br \/><p><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Russ Wilde. &nbsp;Good Morning Everyone &#8211;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have been reading the posts for Unit 4 \u2013 Activity 1 |<br \/>\nDiscussing Impacts of Digital Learning as they are appearing on the blogs.<br \/>\nThere is some fantastic work and insight represented here, and I thank eve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instructor-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16157,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156\/revisions\/16157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}