CEP 815: Technology and Leadership
Summer 2012, Nick Sheltrown and Luke Rapa
Summer 2012
This course is designed to motivate educators to look at how technological advances have altered the way we teach within our classrooms. In order to have a well-rounded classroom environment for all students, educators have to create equilibrium between the technological tools we use, our curricula, types of learners, and our teaching pedagogy. This course continued to challenge graduate students to consider every aspect that goes into lesson planning and teaching with technology.
CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research
Dr. Danah Henrikson and Leigh Wolf
Spring 2012
This course educated graduate students on the detail, bias, data, and opinions involved in educational research. The projects, assignments, and labs were designs to exercise our reflection skills and inquiry-based learning. Students were able to critique, analyze, and collect a great amount of educational data that relates to our teaching careers and overall personal interests.
Carlie Ferschneider's MAET Course Work
This page is designed to communicate the path that I have taken to complete the Educational Technology Master's program at Michigan State University. Along with the time period, instructor, and brief synopsis, I have also included several links to course assignments and tasks that I completed throughout the program.
CEP 804: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Teaching Internship Program
Patricia Bills
Fall 2009-Spring 2009
Although I completed my internship program before I knew what graduate program I was going to pursue, this portion of my life taught me a great amount about unit planning, collaborating with teachers, accommodating materials, integrating more than one subject into a lesson plan, and a variety of pedagogical strategies. The teaching internship program provided opportunities for me to develop my teaching style, strategies, supplementation techniques, classroom management tips, and several forms of assessment that continue to guide my teaching career today.
TE 846 Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Chad Waldron
Summer 2011
Although this class was not a required course within the MAET program, this course fulfilled a new state law requiring educators within Michigan to fulfill a specific literacy class requirement. However, since I was already accepted into the MAET program, I chose to connect several of my literacy assignments to my interest in educational technology. Graduate students were encouraged to learn a variety of teaching and research strategies in order to assist a variety of readers, writers, and learners within each classroom.
CEP 810: Teaching for Understanding with Technology
Jodi Spicer
Summer 2011
This was the first course needed in order to fulfill the MAET certificate program. This course introduced ways that technology can be utilized to enhance learning within the classroom. This course also encouraged students to integrate specific technologies into the classroom, challenged students to analyze an available technological tool, and allowed students to form an argumentative presentation of the relevance of technology use in education.
CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technologies in Education
Carolyn McCarthy
Spring 2012
As the second course in the MAET certificate program, this specific course exposed how familiar technologies can be modified to fit the needs of individual students and classroom environments. We created a stand-alone instructional resource (StAIR) geared towards the subject and grade level we teach. Among the StAIR project, we also got the opportunity to create a blog, edit our school district wiki on Wikipedia, design an educational website, and evaluate a WebQuest. Overall, I learned specific ways that certain tools can be used to effectively support classroom learning with hard work and dedication.
CEP 812: Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice
Sandra Plair and Jodi Spicer
Spring 2012
This was the last course required to earn the technology certificate and provided graduate students with the opportunities to work individually and in small groups to complete a number of technological assignments. One assignment allowed us to use a particular technology to generate a Personal Learning Plan that showcased how technology has impacted our lives. Students were also given the chance to devise a plan of action to address a specific problem that exists within our own classrooms.
CEP 820: Teaching K-12 Students Online
Anne Heintz, Sean Leahy, and Michelle Hagerman
Fall 2012
Throughout the MAET program, students have been encouraged to explore how technology can be effectively integrated into the classroom to enrich each student’s educational experience. This class allowed graduate students to experience ways that teachers can bring the classroom to students through the use of online courses. We were able to discover course management systems, compare their features, and build an online course unit that applied to our current career situations.
CEP 807: Capstone in Educational Technology
Dr. Matthew Koehler
Spring 2013
As the final required course within my MAET journey, this course was a culminating experience to wrap up all that I have experienced and learned within the MAET program. Throughout the semester, I was taught how to take the projects, assignments, tasks, and tools that I have learned and organize them within an online portfolio to present what I have learned to the world. I was also given the opportunity to reflect on the courses that I took, the world of education, and how I plan to implement what I have learned throughout the program into my classroom and the world around me.
CEP 800: Learning in School and Other Settings
Dr. Danah Henrikson and Ammon Wilcken
Summer 2012
CEP 800 created opportunities for educators to research and understand the vast amounts of prior knowledge and experiences that students hold prior to learning material in your classroom. This course stressed the importance of providing ways that students can express any prior understanding and trying to clarify any misconceptions students may have. All-in-all, teachers need to build upon experiences students have gained from outside of school and create opportunities to further their understanding on specific school content.