Today is my first day of school for the Fall 2026 semester! After a few semesters off to work on my merchant mariner license renewal, I’m glad to be back to school at Ball State University (GO CARDINALS). As part of the Master’s program in Curriculum and Educational Technology, I am taking an Evaluation of […]
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Dusting it Off in the New Year
If you are reading this and thinking, “It has been a minute,” you are not wrong. Over the past year, I made an intentional decision to take little break from my Masters program for two semesters to focus on completing the coursework required for my merchant mariner’s license renewal. The break from school also gave […]
Digital Storytelling Reflection of Learning
This final assignment of the course allows me to reflect on my personal and professional growth throughout the semester and share a creative telling of my educational technology philosophy through a digital story. For this project, I made a short video about the development of my educational technology philosophy. The following are different assignment components […]
Faith in Technology
As a fan of Nautilus Magazine (a science publication that explores the intersections of science, culture, philosophy, art, etc), I was instantly drawn to this article by Greg Epstein titled, “Is Technology Worthy of Our Faith?” The article highlights some of the main points in Epstein’s recently published book, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the […]
Take 3 for Accessibility
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In the ed tech space, news abounds with accessibility headlines; see some news articles below. This might seem like an irrelevant topic, especially if you, like me, are of the privileged majority of people who have no limitations to accessing digital tools. As digital accessibility deadlines loom, […]
Project Based Learning Inquiry Project
This project is a key assessment for the course and is a culmination of the concepts of problem-based learning, learning theory, technology adoption and integration, and other theories, models, etc from the readings and other materials used throughout the course. About For this project, I developed a Marlinespike Seamanship lesson. Marlinespike seamanship skills are essential […]
Even More Musings on Assistive Technology, Universal Design, Equity, and Access
Have you ever learned something new and, shortly after that, you see or hear about that same thing? Me too! The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the frequency illusion, is a phenomenon where something you recently learned seems to appear everywhere. This happened to me this week. After completing the last assignment, a few different […]
Musings on Assistive Technology, Universal Design, Equity, and Access
This week, we were provided a wide variety of readings and resources covering the full spectrum of topics and issues about assistive technology, universal design, equity, and access. This module has been one of my favorites of this course so far this semester. I have always been interested in accessibility from a general sense, not […]
#USvsHate is more important now than ever
To be honest, I have not yet fully recovered from last week’s election results. Reading this article about hateful speech in schools today felt even more despairing. Everything the 2022 article says still tracks but is even more exacerbated and exists beyond schools and is fully entrenched in society. The article references 2018 and 2020 […]
Exploration of Digital Tools: A Web-based Tool Evaluation
For this assignment, I had the opportunity to explore a wide variety of digital tools, choose one to create an assignment, and complete the assignment as if I was a student. I have zero prior experience working with apps related to education, and no schools that I work with use any either, so I was […]