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Special Topics in Learing, Technology & Culture | Fall 2008
My one and only PhD level course! In the fall of 2008, my boss, Dr. Yong Zhao, had brought a set of students from China & India into the MAET program as part of a special cohort. They were all accomplished graphic designers, programmers and technology specialists and Dr. Zhao really wanted to leverage their skill sets to do exciting work in exploring technology and education. As the first class, we embarked on building a virtual learning space in Second Life. The project was to be a semester long look into creating a virtual space, Erickson Hall in this case, and how to leverage the technology to create an educative environment.
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Special Topics in Education Psychology and Educational Technology | Spring 2008
CEP891 is the designation for a course that hasn't been officially given a course number assignment in the course catalog. Sometimes this type of course is experimental and may never be adopted as a permanent course, but in my case, the CEP891 section I was in was later adopted as a permanent course called CEP815: Technology and Leadership. This course is one that I believed the MAET program was in dire need of, considering many of the graduates move on to be technology leaders and directors in their buildings and districts. I was very pleased when the program coordinator for MAET told me that it was being offered.
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Independent Study | Spring 2009
Traditionally the capstone course of the MAET program is taught by Dr. Patrick Dickson, which holds the course listing of CEP807: Proseminar in Educational Technology. It is taught once a year, in the first of the two summer sessions.
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Independent Study | Spring 2008 | Project Site
Between 2004-2007, the College of Education participated in a research grant known as PT3 (Preparing Teachers for using the Technology of Tomorrow). This federally funded grant was awarded to universities and research groups looking at how to teach pre-service teachers about technology use in instruction. A component of this, which I was involved heavily in, was awarding scholarships to teachers who were authentically using technology in instructive ways in their classrooms. In return for a stipend, they would be interviewed about their use of technology and the resulting videos would be made available as a resource for our teacher education faculty to use in their pre-service classes at the College of Education at MSU.
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Approaches to Educational Research | Summer 2008
"Approaches to Education Research" is exactly the type of course I signed up for the Masters to be in. I somewhat dreaded it, being a meat & potatoes course about research, which I am not well versed in, but also very optimistic that I could emerge on the other side a more productive person in my field. At the very least I would be able to familiarize myself with buzz words that were included in every conversation I sit in on.
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Creativity in Teaching & Learning | Fall 2008 | Final Project
As you may have realized from some of my previous posts, I tend to be drawn to taking "cutting edge" classes, either ones that are being piloted online for the first time or are completely new, which CEP818 was in fall of 2008. Dr. Mishra of TE150 & CEP817 fame spearheaded the development of a class about creativity in teaching and learning. He has been a proponent of the creative process in most of his masters and doctoral classes as well as his personal life (more about that on his blog).
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Learning Technology through Design | Fall 2006 | Course Blog | Big Kahuna
In the fall of 2006 I had just come back from a successful teaching stint in Plymouth, England and was really engaged as an ed tech student. Even though CEP817 was technically a third year class, and I was but a first year master's student, knowing the instructor, Dr. Punya Mishra, gave me the confidence to enroll in the class.
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Learning Science with Technology | Fall 2006 | Final Project
In the fall of 2006, I worked with Professor David Wong, who I had co-taught with in the summer in Plymouth, England, to study the science behind aesthetics. My readings were tailored by David Wong around human experience, art and aesthetics, which Dr. Wong is an accomplished scholar in. As part of the process I read work by scholars of the likes of John Dewey to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
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Electronic Portfolios | Summer 2006 | Portfolio Site
CEP813 was the first class I took in the MAET program. I was accepted and enrolled in the program and placed in this class, summer 2006, with the urging of Dr. Patrick Dickson with lightening speed. Ironically, I was finishing up this very same course when I went over to teach with David Wong in the Plymouth that summer for the MAET program. My careers as a student and instructor started almost simultaneously.
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Psychology of Learning in School and Other Settings | Fall 2007 | Course Blog
I was lucky to be in one of the first classes of CEP800 that was designed to be completely online. The instructor, Dr. Carey Roseth, had just been hired by the Counseling, Education Psychology and Special Education department as an Assistant Professor the prior semester and was to spearhead the debut of the course.
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