Amiee Stiverson's Master of Educational Technology annotated transcript
CEP 810 (Summer 09)
Teaching for Understanding with Technology Instructor-Sue Way CEP 810 introduced the five foundational topics that are essential for advanced study. Those topics were the theories of learning and understanding, essential mindsets for teaching with technology, professional learning networks, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), and creative uses of technologies for learning. This course taught me a lot about the basics of using technology within the classroom. The most prevalent concept of this class was to ensure technology was used for making a 'change with a difference' and not just to simply say you used technology. I still use some of these course requirements today. |
CEP 811 (Summer 09)
Adapting Innovative Technologies in Education Instructor-Susan Wright CEP 811 introduced us to the idea of repurposing the world around us. We took existing ideas and reworked them to introduce technologies into our classrooms. I created a multiplication StAIR (Stand Alone Instructional Resource) to help individual students show their expertise with multiplication. I also used an established lesson plan that I recreated into a webquest that students used in my classroom the very next school year. This course also introduced Web 2.0: blogs, wikis, podcasting, and photo sharing. |
CEP 812 (Spring 10)
Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice Instructor-Susan Wright CEP 812 used a range of technologies to show a variety of teaching and educational problems. As students, we explored problems associated with technology and how to overcome those problems. We also looked critically at technology, the potentials and the pitfalls. I used knowledge from my CEP 811 class to set up a blogging website with another educator in North Carolina. We learned about North Carolina and taught them about Michigan. This allowed me to use a type of collaboration that would otherwise be absent...'change with a difference'. |
CEP 800 (Summer 10)
Learning in School and Other Settings Instructor-Barbara Thelamour/Ammon Wilcken CEP 800 was about connecting theories of learning to experiences as learners. We used ideas about learning and associated them with an actual student and his/her learning. I used my niece who was in third grade at the time. I focused on when a learner feels uneasy about new concepts and helping them learn strategies to overcome their anxieties in order to engage in the lesson. This was using Piaget's cognitive structures to make thinking and learning possible. |
CEP 820 (Summer 10)
Teaching Students Online Instructor-Laeeq Khan CEP 820 focused on getting assignments online for collaboration and communication on said assignments. We discussed and explored different course management systems to use as our online course tool. In this course I developed an online course focused on an interactive study of Michigan's Native American History. I kept a data notebook on the interactive lessons. I used Edu2.0 to develop my class. This assignment helped me understand the process of creating an online learning environment. |
CEP 822 (Summer 10)
Approaches to Educational Research Instructor-David Wong CEP 822 was about finding an educational problem that we have experienced. This course focused on us finding a real life problem and creating a literature review to look in depth at the problem. My research focused on standardized testing and its effects on students. I focused specifically on students and how they learn Michigan History in third grade, but are tested on this information on the sixth grade MEAP. My research topic was to see if a Social Studies special for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades would help them retain the information learned in third grade. |
CEP 815 (Spring 11)
Technology and Leadership Instructor-Nick Shetrown CEP 815 focused on being managing of the relationship amongst technology, teaching, and learning. Professional development, project management, planning, and evaluating were all discussed in this course. This course enabled me to see potential problems with technology being a cure-all. For example, a school purchased an overabundance of Smart Boards that went unused because the staff didn't have the need for them or the proper training. This course also focused on teaching us how to be technology leaders instead of just general education teachers. CEP 816 (Summer 14)
Technology, Teaching, and Learning Across the Curriculum Instructor-Rand Spiro This course teaches about using technologies to improve learning, primarily focusing on new media. This new media makes learning and teaching that were once hard to achieve much easier. This is one of the few courses that use a book. The book that we used was written by Will Richardson and was titled Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. This course highlights a new idea for teaching on the web, Read/Write Web. Examples of this are open educational resources, the social web, flickr, podcasting, and social networks. This course also fostered collaboration with peers within the Master's program, which we know as teachers is a best practice in learning. |
CEP 807 (Summer 14)
Capstone Portfolio Educational Technology Instructor-Matthew Koehler CEP 807 is a capstone course taken at the end of all the Master's coursework. Students create an online portfolio summarizing all of their work throughout the Masters courses. So far I have used a new online web building program to create a new website. Weebly has been extremely easy and fun to use. I would recommend using it to anyone. This course was a review of all courses and coursework created within the Masters in Educational Technology program. TE 846 (Summer 12)
Accomodating Differences in Literacy Learners Instructor-Paul Crutcher This course satisfies Michigan's new reading course in order to receive a Professional Certificate. This was a course that used two texts; Best Practices in Literacy Instruction and What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction. I highly recommend the best practices book; I continue to use it every year to improve my literacy instruction. Within this course we learned about assessment tools within reading and writing and accommodations/modifications for reading and writing. I also assessed a student and used strategies to help improve her reading skills. This is another course in which I used a family member, my niece. |
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