I am proudly at the ripe age of 40, right when my reading interests seem to be shifting a bit more toward history. My wife gifted me a book called Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug by Augustine Sedgewick. I love coffee and was fascinated, surprised, and disappointed to […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Digital Citizenship Training Certified
I just became Digital Citizenship Training Certified through Common Sense Education. Common Sense Education helps parents and educators support students to help them thrive in a digital world. They offer a wide variety of resources. One type of resource is through professional development training courses where one can earn micro credentials like certificates and badges. […]
Steal Like a Teacher – S1 E2 – Le’Aunna Rhodes
Episode Intro Next up in this podcast series, I interview Le’Aunna (Le) Rhodes, Compliance Manager at Open Doors Academy in Cleveland, OH. Continuing the conversation in the digital equity space, we discuss the non-profit realm; regulatory requirements, compliance, and audits; the importance of supporting families; how schools received support during COVID; and more! Thank you […]
Steal Like a Teacher – S1 E1 – Sara Vizina
Episode Intro Kicking off this podcast series, I recently interviewed Sara Vizina, a middle school and high school Spanish teacher in Cheboygan Public Schools in Cheboygan, MI. We cover a lot of ground in this 20 minute chat and discuss everything from rural northern Michigan schools, how COVID changed education, technology personnel to student ratio, […]
Thoughts on “The Enduring Classroom” (Chapters 5-6) – The End
The timing of reading the end of this book aligned with a recent conversation I had with a friend. They were telling me about a book club they had attended, and the book discussed was The School I Deserve: Six Young Refugees and Their Fight for Equality in America by Jo Napolitano. Their brief summary […]
Thoughts on “The Enduring Classroom” (Chapters 3-4)
“Schooling and teaching are complex processes deeply nested in one another and the society that provides it. Nested is a fair word to use in capturing the interrelatedness and steadiness in patterns of schooling. Each classroom is part of a school that, in turn, is part of a district, which is located in a state.” […]
Steal Like a Teacher
Introducing my new podcast, Steal Like a Teacher! One of the larger projects for this semester’s EDTE 650 course is to create a watershed podcast / interactive presentation focusing on an important issue within educational technology and teacher education. Inspired by the works of Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, I have titled this podcast […]
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 […]