Ken Dirkin

1. I'm with Coco
(Personal/me)

... ass - is he not?  Of course people will be dumbfounded when you attack them in the streets with bright lights and a camera crew.  And who really cares about typos in advertisements, I spend my day copy ...

2. Presenting: Myself
(Personal/me)

... with Joomla. I think the presentation has veered off course from being about my portfolio concept & design and more into the realm of a Joomla workshop. Hopefully I won't disappoint. I've modified ...

3. Chinese Your Way
(Professional/Confucius Institute)

Chinese Your Way is a complex courseware system designed by CIMSU and created by partner China Central Radio and Television University.  Covering a semester's worth of lessons in two week self paced lessons, ...

4. Faculty Test Server
(Professional/Center for Teaching and Technology)

... face, hybrid and in completely online courses.  Without a system like FTS, the faculty have limited resources inside the University to test and explore these new technologies and gain a better understanding ...

5. CIMSU Promotional
(Professional/examples)

The Confucius Institute has several services that we often need to market for. The two most recognizable ones are our online course offerings.  These are for high school students around the country as ...

6. CIMSU Promo 1
(Professional/vids)

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7. Chinese Online Course
(Professional/Confucius Institute)

Through the Confucius Institute we teach two varieties of online courses. Both are offered through our partners at the Michigan Virtual High School. The classes are offered to high school students throughout ...

8. College of Education
(Professional/Employment)

... unique from conception, was established to be an online Confucius Institute, developing virtual Chinese resources and online courses for K-12 students throughout Michigan and the world. As director of ...

9. Beijing Channel Company
(Academic/Courses Taught)

... to prep certificate candidates before actually becoming MSU students and teachers. Students in the BCC program go through two months of intense courses with CI staff about teaching, technology and ...

10. Course: CEP991a
(Academic/Courses Taken)

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 ...

11. Course: CEP891
(Academic/Courses Taken)

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. ...

12. Course: CEP890
(Academic/Courses Taken)

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. ...

13. Course: CEP890
(Academic/Courses Taken)

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 ...

14. Course: CEP822
(Academic/Courses Taken)

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 ...

15. Course: CEP818
(Academic/Courses Taken)

... 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). I entered the course with high hopes, ...

16. Course: CEP817
(Academic/Courses Taken)

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 ...

17. Course: CEP806
(Academic/Courses Taken)

... slips magicians take advantage of performing tricks. My final project for the course was a twelve minute documentary about the "Science of Aesthetics", meant to be one part in a three part series.  Part ...

18. Course: CEP813
(Academic/Courses Taken)

... 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 ...

19. Course: CEP800
(Academic/Courses Taken)

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. ...

20. Vita
(Professional/cv)

... State University Instructor for master's level courses for both the Plymouth, England and East Lansing, MI programs. Courses deal with distinct mixture of Educational Psychology and Educational Technology ...