And so it begins...

This week, I officially started my capstone research. This brought on a few emotions. I am excited to finally reach the culmination of the MAIT program, and to implement my plan for improving an aspect of my teaching. It also brought on the stress of knowing that the next two semesters will be quite a bit of work.

I started by putting my topic idea into words last week. Doing so made things seem much more serious. But like I said, I'm excited to get to work on my research!

What took a bit more time was getting to work on my topic paper. I've always struggled to elaborate in my writing; but I do find that when I am given an outline to follow it makes things much easier to undertake. (Thanks Amy!) Stating the gap and proposed solution has me excited to start researching topics such as e-portfolios and self regulation in education (which is what I plan to do more of this week).