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 […]
EDTE 650
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, […]
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 […]
Communicated Learning Environment
In one of the course assignments this week, I was supposed to develop a digital artifact that portrays a classroom culture I would hypothetically like to establish with my students. Within this, I am also supposed to include the role of technology within the instructional context of my classroom. For this assignment, I used Canva […]
Learning Paradigms – Interactive Infographic
This week’s assignment was an interesting and multifaceted one. First, we learned about the various learning paradigms. And then we worked in group with a few other students in our class. Each of us took one of the learning paradigms and designed an infographic highlighting some of their features. We then integrated them into a […]
TPACK / SAMR Lesson Deconstruction
We are learning about the decision-making processes teachers go through when considering technology integration. For this assignment, I made a visual diagram of the decision making process of a hypothetical lesson and detailed the considerations of technology integration. Intro to TPACK and SAMR There is a lot that goes into TPACK and SAMR models. For […]