Reflection on Changes to Professional Vita:

I was impressed with the wide variety of experiences of my cohort members. The professional vita activity was fairly easy for me, because I already had a vita from my doctoral coursework last year.  I simply updated it and formatted it to match the example in the textbook. Based upon reviewing other cohort members’ vitas, however, I was confused as to whether or not to add “references” to my vita.  I interpreted the textbook to say that we were not supposed to include the references, unless specifically asked for.  Therefore, I chose not to add references to my vita.  I asked this question of Dr. Benevidez during the weekly web conference, and he said not to put a reference section, so I left it out.  The only change I made to my vita was a recent notification that I was going to be the Featured Educator for December, 2010, on the Mimio website, so I added that to the “Honors, Recognition, and Scholarship” section.  My revised vita can be found on my wiki at:  http://brenda-lu-academic-partnership.wikispaces.com/