KATIE KRCMARIK'S EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSCRIPT
Fall 2014
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Summer 2014
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CEP 807: Capstone in Educational Technology
Dr. Matthew Koehler , Spencer Greenhalgh, Brittany Dillman, and Sarah Keenan The capstone course focuses on development of a teaching or professional portfolio. As a graphic designer, I have developed several portfolios over the years using both print and electronic technology. However, the development of a teaching portfolio is new, but quite beneficial for my long-term goals. A teaching portfolio focuses on different types of material than a design portfolio does. My goal with my portfolio is to obtain employment as an instructional designer. CEP 816: New Media Literacies for Teaching & Learning Across Curriculum Paul Morsink With a focus on reading strategies, specifically in regards to “new media”, the course invites us to explore a variety of new media text tools alongside delving into reading strategies. I find this course particularly beneficial as I teach at a community college where a good portion of students come in with reading levels at less than college level and in many cases below even high school appropriate levels. This course provided better ways to improve student interaction with the material and to provide them with better strategies when reading challenging material. The final project focused on taking an existing assignment or lesson and updating it to utilize new media text tools with the assignment or lesson plan in a purposeful manner. My final project focused on using new media text tools in my final manifesto assignment for my ART 122 Graphic Design Survey Course. |
CEP 800: Learning in School and Other Settings
William Cain and Joshua Rosenberg The Learning in School and Other Settings course focused on two main ideas: the integration of technology into lesson plans to meet learning outcomes and to gain a better understanding of what learners actually understand. We both looked at video examples of students bring preconceptions into the classroom that affect their learning in our classroom and we also conducted our own “experiments” to show what students understand about a subject. Towards the end of the course, we explored incorporating technology into an existing lesson plane. The goal with the exercise was to use the technology to positively effect student learning outcomes instead of just using technology to use technology. The class provided me with a better focus on the things the can impact student understanding of a topic and how I can overcome these. CEP 815: Technology and Leadership Dr. Leigh Wolf and Benjamin Gleason The course focused on solving professional problems both with technology and from a leadership perspective. The course focused on defining and exploring different styles of leadership. It also focused on how to frame thinking about problems that satisfy the mission of our college instead of just on what technology may be available. Because of a great deal of feedback and support from the instructor, I have pitched some of my ideas at my college and will begin implementing them. The course helped me solidify my thoughts on several issues around my campus especially the issue of low participation in professional development opportunities. I came away from the course feeling more confident in my ideas and with a greater ability to take a leadership role in pitching solutions to the problems found on campus. CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research Dr. David Wong and Tatyana Li While this course primarily focused on how to conduct research related to educational topics, it also delved into collecting data, ethical issues with data collection, and statistical analysis of the data. I have never taken a statistics course before so that part of the material was the most challenging for me. However, I found it beneficial to delve into this subject, as I may want to pursue a PhD at some point in the future, which would necessitate a better understanding of statistics. I also gained a far better understanding of the different types of research methodology you can choose and the ethical concerns you must sometimes weigh out in order to protect potential research subjects. |
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CEP 817: Learning Technology through Design
Dr. Punya Mishra and Jonathan Good This course focuses on exploring the ideas of good and bad design while also exploring new technologies possibilities. We discussed what makes for effective or ineffective design with each module focusing on examples chosen by either the instructors or our classmates. We also spent a good deal of time exploring various technologies and how we could employ them in the classroom. The course culminated with a website where I explored a range of methods for teaching a particular subject, typography in my case. The course really challenged me to think about the user, in this case the student, and what would be most beneficial from both a technological and pedagogical stand point to teach them most effectively. CEP 820: Teaching Students Online Dr. Anne Heintz, Sandra Sawaya, and Spencer Greenhalgh This course focused on developing effective online courses. Over the course of the semester, we both explored best practices in online teaching and began to develop our own online courses. I have already taught online for several years, but the course allowed me to spend time focusing on some areas of weakness such as accommodating students with disabilities and provided more thorough introductory material for the course. I was helpful to also get feedback from classmates who offered a new perspective on my course materials. In general, the course helped me fine tune my online teaching practices. CEP 882: The Nature and Design of Compelling Experiences Dr. David Wong and Ha Thanh Nguyen The Nature and Design of Compelling Experiences course provided an exploration of creative mediums like film, advertising, photography, design, and architecture to discover how these mediums create compelling experiences. The course sought to show the parallels between creating compelling experiences in any of these mediums and how these same techniques can be applied to classroom. As someone with a strong background in the arts, this helped me to better connect that knowledge to my teaching. The course culminated with making a top ten list of techniques learned over the semester that could be applied to the classroom. |
CEP 810: Teaching for Understanding with Technology
Kim Powell and Michelle Schira Hagerman This course marked my first exposure to the TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) principles that serve as a foundation for many courses within the MAET (Master of Arts in Educational Technology) program. The course focused around the idea that technology was just another tool in the teaching arsenal. Over the course of the semester, one project focused on trying to teach yourself a chosen skill using just videos and forums. The project demonstrated both the potential benefits of this technology along with many of the limitations of the technology. The course also focused on the successful incorporation of technology into our classrooms by developing a lesson plan using technology in an effective manner. Finally, we also spent some time on professional development subjects like personal learning networks and productivity tools. CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education Craig McMichael and Michelle Schira Hagerman Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education focused on a wide range of topics from re-purposing technology to MOOCs to creating the classroom of the 21st century. This course challenged me to think past initial assumptions and to think deeper about the possibilities around me. The maker culture is nothing new to me as an artist and designer, but thinking about how those same ideas could benefit my teaching practices was a new thought. The final project for the course focused on developing a conference proposal with a group of classmates. Our proposal focused on how storyboarding is a helpful tool to create better instructional videos. We actually submitted the proposal to the conference and will presenting it October at the Teaching Professor Technology Conference. |