Name of Assignment: Genogram
Teacher: Kumu Liana Class: History 151 My Genogram assignment was created for History 151 to understand our own backgrounds and to see the correlation between my family history and myself. The point was to see if their choices affect my choices in life and how similar we are with education level, languages spoken and general parallels. This assignment represents the twenty first century skill of self-directed learning because this was a project I had to take on alone. My peers nor my teacher could technically help me because it is about me and my family. So it was involuntary to work alone and self manage myself throughout the project. I demonstrated my self-directional skills by manageing my procrastination, the requirements needed to complete, andlearning how to utilize the online resources. I am most proud of the representation of my genogram, I spent hours learning new information about my family and organizing all of the information precise. I love how I color coded the information and how it is all cohesive. This assignment helped me further understand my own needs when completing an assignment on my own. It gave me the opportunity to work on my personal skills of working alone and control it to finish the project. The most difficult part of this assignment was finding out information on my mother’s side of hte family. I don’t live with her and I don’t speak that well of lithuanian to understand their history. Luckily my father knew some and we reached out to my aunt who is fluent. This was a major set back in the project but was solved. If I was to redo this project I would take more time on my reflection. Writing isnt my strong suit so it definitely took more time than required to take and would have been easier if I had more information. Fortunately I received an A on the project so I am happy with the outcome. This project relates to past assignments on other work I had to compete on my own. I tend to work with my peers and like this assignment it allowed me to strengthen my self directed learning capabilities. I can now apply my understanding of what is needed from me to succeed in a project where I work alone. What I have learned from this assignment can be used for other future assignments requiring my self-direction skills. |