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I completed the following courses at Michigan State University while earning a Masters in Educational Technology and a Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning:
SUMMER 2018
CEP 810:
Teaching for Understanding with Technology
Instructor: Prof. Emily Stone
This course explored the use of contemporary online tools to more effectively teach. While in this course, I developed techniques and tools to bring creativity to aspects of my classroom. I began developing an online PLN (Professional Learning Network) and expanded my use of Adobe Photoshop and other tools to me develop my technical skills. It is in this course that my understanding and application of TPACK as a vital component of my educational philosophy first developed.
CEP 811:
Adapting Innovative Technologies in Education
Instructors: Prof. Rachel Matz & Prof. Melissa White
This course explored the use of Making and creation in the learning environment. Students were challenged to remix, make, and create both learning activities and learning spaces conducive to these types of learning. This class introduced me to maker spaces and designing learning environments that facilitated design, creative, experimentation, and creativity. In this course, I created learning activities that would inspire my passion for integrating technology, engineering, and creativity into the history classroom.
FALL 2018
CEP 812:
Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice
Instructor: Prof. Frankish
This course explores how technology can be applied to issues of practice. Students were introduced to complex and wicked problems and charged with studying the problem with the field of education and within our contexts. I explored issues surrounding the structure and pace of the education system. Part of my solution to these issues was a re-designed approach to pacing and course work in a personalized learning environment supported by technology and a reimagined learning environment.
CEP 822:
Approaches to Educational Research
Instructors: Dr. Michael Lachney & Prof. Emily Bovee
This course introduced students to action research and applying research principles to real issues of practice within one’s teaching environment. I explored the impact of the iPad and creativity on student learning. I conducted my action study in my classroom, examining whether student learning improved by using traditional methods, the substitution of the same work with the iPad, or creative work. This course encouraged me to explore action research in my context more actively, both in my classes and within my school site.
SPRING 2019
CEP 817:
Learning Technology by Design
Instructors: Professors Bret Willet & Liz Boltz
This course introduced students to design thinking, both as an approach within our pedagogical practice for students to create and design, but also as a method for taking on problems within our school contexts. As an educational technology coach, I sought to understand and resolve barriers to teacher adoption of technology into their instructional methods. Moreover, I designed new structures and incentives for professional teacher learning using the design method.
CEP 820:
Teaching Students Online
Instructor: Dr. Anne Heintz
This course introduced students to the design concerns for teaching students online. We explored the affordances and constraints of various content/learning management systems. Through this exploration, I created a course using Canvas LMS and designed different methods for student learning and ways in which to assess that learning in an online environment. Incorporating asynchronous and synchronous elements to the course, I developed a learning environment that took into consideration accessibility and UDL principles.
SUMMER 2019
CEP 813:
Electronic Assessment for Teaching and Learning
Instructor: Professor Sarah Keenan-Lechel
This course introduced students to the pedagogical concerns of assessment as a tool for student learning. Students explored types of formative and summative assessment, the importance of feedback, and creative ways in which students can demonstrate their mastery of content. In particular, we created game-based assessments and designed portfolio tools for measuring student learning.
CEP 815:
Teaching and Leadership
Instructor: Professor Brittany Dillman
This course explored the intersection between technology, education, and leadership, encouraging students to develop proficiency in all three domains of knowledge. By tacking real leadership problems, difficult professional situations, and identified work dilemmas, we designed solutions that we might undertake. As a culminating project, I created a personalized professional development program that targeted teacher growth areas and reduced elements of the much-resented typical faculty meeting and school PD.
FALL 2019
CEP 800:
Learning in School and Other Settings
Instructors: Professors Kimberly Alberts & Brittany Dillman
This course explores the various learning theories to which educators often adhere and the pedagogical tools and practices that often accompany these theories. Students explored Behaviorist, Cognitive, and Constructivist ideas and explored their implications for educators in the classroom and beyond. Through this course, I developed a personal theory of learning, taking into account the theories and practices studied throughout the course.
CEP 807:
Proseminar in Educational Technology
Instructor: Dr. Matthew Koehler
This course facilitates a deep reflection over the learning, growth, and goals of students exiting their education program at Michigan State University. Students create a website portfolio to demonstrate their learning and professional goals. This process requires students to design an effective method by which they effectively and aesthetically share their qualifications as an educator.