Week 1 was all about fine-tuning my ILC description and revising my learning objectives (LOs), which can be found at this link. My biggest struggle whenever planning an ILC is making sure my LOs actually read as being related to each other. This quarter, I could see in my mind how each LOs related to one another, working towards the goal of my Senior Capstone Project, but the way in which I wrote them out made them seem completely disjointed. My faculty, Sarah Williams, provided helpful tips for how to rectify this situation. She suggested I look at what I want the final outcome of this ILC to be (my Senior Capstone Project), then take it step-by-step explaining how each LO (craft papers, creative writing, working with Adobe InDesign) will help me to achieve this goal. By doing this, not only did I strengthen my ILC contract, I actually got a clearer picture of what I need to do during the quarter and what I want to achieve by the end of it.

I revising my LOs, I also realized what was a realistic goal for me to accomplish, and what parts I might want to minimize for the sake of time. I ended up reworking the creative writing/craft paper LO, splitting it into two LOs instead of one, and scaling down the work needed to accomplish each. Instead of trying to write three craft papers alongside two 10 page creative writing papers, I talked with my faculty Catalina Ocampo (who’s overseeing the craft papers and creative writing) and we decided the best course of action would be for me to write only two craft papers and multiple smaller pieces of creative writings.

I anticipate Week 2 will be all about finalizing my ILC and starting on my writings and readings!