This page showcases a diverse range of projects (both independent and collaborative) that I completed as a part of my MAET degree at MSU. These projects were created in coordination with the courses that can be found on my Coursework page.
STAIR - (Stand Alone Instructional Resource) A lesson on plate boundaries
This PowerPoint presentation is designed to allow students to view information, and then get immediate feedback in a quiz format. The only program needed is PowerPoint. Students will see different slides depending on their answers in the quiz portion of the presentation, or will be encouraged to try again. The Universal Design for Learning and its principles is behind the concept of this STAIR project.
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Wicked Problem Project
This project was designed to help solve a problem of the rising cost of the Microsoft Office Suite for school districts. This Screencast describes my plan to implement Google Docs (now Google Drive) in a K-12 Michigan school district.
Professional Learning Plan
This professional learning plan showcases my goals for my experiences in the MAET program as I first began the program in my first course. Some of these goals I have met, but many have changed with time and experience. This was created using PowerPoint, Camtasia Studio, and Screencast to narrate this presentation into a video format.
Online Course Design - Moodle
This is a Screencast introduction of the CMS Moodle, and the course I created for my sixth grade science students. The video will discuss the main parts of the CMS and how it would work in my classroom.
Demotivation Poster
A little comic relief! We did some research on what keeps people and students, in particular, motivated. The task was to come up with the antithesis of that, a comical demotivation poster. This was a group project completed by the MSU (My Summer Uploaded) group.
Why Students Don't Like School (Ch. 7 & 8) via Mind Meister
For this activity, we were asked to dissect chapters 7 and 8 of the Willingham text, Why Students Don't Like School. We needed to communicate our findings via a collaborative concept mapping tool, in this case Mind Meister. In the presentation that is linked to the paragraph to the left, not only will you find a detailed description of chapters 7 & 8, but also pros and cons to Mind Meister.
Exploring Key Topics in Technology
This site is an exploration of three components that are an essential part of a student's education. Creativity, critical thinking and technology must be taught, fluidly incorporated and at the forefront of all curricula. As educators it is our responsibility to use technology to facilitate creativity and critical thinking skills in our students. By helping our students develop these skills we are enabling them to think in NEW (Novel, Effective, Whole) ways, as well as giving them critical thinking experience which allows them to transfer their understandings to new concepts. This site was created in collaboration with the MSU (My Summer Uploaded) group on campus at MSU.
Behaviorism: Reinforcement, Shaping & Fading
For this project, designed to explore practices in educational research, we were asked to find an online game that demonstrated the behaviorism principles of reinforcement, shaping and fading. The game we chose was called Dance Mat Typing Game. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
The reasons why we chose this game are discussed in the Google Presentation linked to the picture at the left. This was a group project by MSU (My Summer Uploaded).
The reasons why we chose this game are discussed in the Google Presentation linked to the picture at the left. This was a group project by MSU (My Summer Uploaded).
Physics Video - Group Video Editing Assignment
For this assignment, we were asked to consider the following problem. When you drop a ball while standing, does the ball land in front of you, behind you, or at your feet? This same scenario was considered also for when the subject was walking while dropping the ball, and running while dropping the ball. We were also asked to consider the path of a ball dropped straight down versus the path of a ball dropped at an angle. The basics of video were addressed with this project, especially the "CFL ABE" technique, which stands for "Camera Footage Looks Awesome Because of Excellence". Essentially, the details matter while creating a video. Here is what our group came up with.
Understanding Understanding
For this group project in the summer cohort program, we were asked to explore a common public misconception. After selecting a misconception, we were to interview the public about their understanding of that particular topic. We compiled the interviews into a video, organized our data, and also clarified the misunderstanding. The misconception we chose to address was "How long does gum stay in your stomach after you swallow it?" and then further explored the subjects' overall understanding of the digestive process.
Dream It - A project based grant proposal
The goal of this project was to develop a grant proposal that integrates something we would like to do in our own classroom with educational technology key ideas, concepts and tools. I focused my Dream It proposal on using one to one tablets to foster and improve student critical thinking skills and search engine techniques.
Reflection Paper
For this independent writing task in the Year 2 summer cohort course, we were asked to reflect upon our experiences in the six weeks that we participated in the summer cohort program. We looked back to what we have learned, and were asked also to look forward to how these experiences will shape what we do in the next five years of our careers.