My initial reaction to this course was annoyance.  As someone who saw their M.Ed as an opportunity to purposefully focus on a specific stream of professional learning I was disappointed to hear that I first had to take an entire course devoted to just writing.  This perception has since completely changed and I am proud to say that I have mentioned to multiple people that this course was the most practical and perhaps the most valuable learning experience I had in the graduate program.  This course provided a platform to gradually hone and develop the participants' scholarly writing skills through a series of three written assignments geared towards topics of their choosing.  The information learned in this course was utilized heavily in every assignment or every course that followed, as well as in my daily professional writing. 

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The course schedule saw participants access topic information via Moodle as lectures, notes, and communication were conveyed via Moodle files and messaging.

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Included in my assignments exemplars are: 1) a case self-study based on the work of Kolb's Learning Styles, and 2) an essay on the importance of a digital literacy curriculum.

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A special thank-you to Dr. Terry for suggesting I submit my essay for publication consideration as it was accepted without revision and published in the BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 8.1.