Persuasion WebQuest
This WebQuest was created in the course CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education, the second course taken in the program. It is centered around a persuasion unit for the 7th Grade Language Arts classroom. In addition, it is designed as an interactive, student driven experience with teacher support as needed.
StAIRS Project: Becoming a Grammar Guru
‘Becoming a Grammar Guru’ is a grammar project that was also created in CEP 811. It is designed to help students better understand, identify, and apply the basic parts of speech to improve their reading and writing skills. Students are able to achieve this through implementation of this interactive PowerPoint.
Prezi Presentation: Instrumental Thinking vs. Missional Thinking
In CEP 815: Technology and Leadership, I was able to investigate different technology tools and what it means to be a leader, especially in education. One of the last assignments created was geared towards combining both of those areas. This presentation was created in Prezi, an online presentation tool that can be facilitated in an array of fashions.
Blog: Creativity with Literacy
CEP 818: Creativity in Teaching was a course that centered around developing a new outlook on how one teaches. This blog, which was kept throughout the duration, documents that journey with teaching literary texts. Highlights include: videos, graphic design, journaling. Overall, the assignments, provided me, as a teacher, with a new creative perspective on how to teach one area of Language Arts.
Online Course Creation: Poetry with Holaday
Created in the course CEP 820: Teaching k-12 Students Online, this online course is geared towards the 7th Grade Language Arts classroom, more specifically for a poetry unit. The entire unit may be completed online through step-by-step instructions, examples, discussions, etc. My goal was to create a complete poetry source for students who cannot be in the typical classroom.
Research Proposal
In CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research, an assignment I progressed towards throughout was a research proposal on an educational issue. Through studying and understanding the key aspects and attributes of research, I was able to compose a proposal in regards to higher level questioning and its affects on critical thinking skills in the classroom.
Video Production: The Nature & Design of Music That Moves
This video was created for the course CEP 882: The Nature and Design of Compelling Experiences. Throughout the course, studies were conducted on the nature and design of compelling experiences. This particular assignment involved selecting a song that I personally found compelling and analyze the nature and design of the piece for its compelling components. Overall, I was able to learn the work of art behind music and development an appreciation for that work of art.