MSU's Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program has prepared me to thoughtfully use technologies to support teaching and learning in a range of educational environments. This technology showcase represents some of the projects I've completed in the program.  Many of the concepts, ideas, projects, and/or technologies are now being applied in my classroom. Please click on the thumbnails to visit webpages, videos, presentations, and images!

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Cyberbullying Glog

Glogs are interactive posters which can be loaded with text, graphics, music, and videos.  This glog is designed to raise student awareness about the issue of online bullying.  I teach a unit on internet safety and as a formative assessment, have students choose one of the topics from the unit to focus on and create their own Glogster about that topic.
Technology:  Glogster

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Who Are You? It Matters for Your Future!

In order for middle school students to explore careers in a meaningful way, they need to know themselves. This video describes an assignment that will help students on this voyage of self-discovery through digital storytelling. I had the "flipped classroom" idea in mind when I made this video. I think it would be a good assignment for them to watch at home, because students would want to immediately begin collecting some photo resources for their own digital stories!
Technology:  iMovie, YouTube

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Exploring Topics in
Technology & Education

A wiki containing an annotated list of on-line resources for educators about using technology to facilitate and develop creativity and critical thinking skills in students.
Technology:  Wikispaces and Jing

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Web 2.0 Tools for
Quizzes and Polls

Collaborative group review published on a wiki of five different technology tools for creating quizzes and polls.
Technology:  PBWorks, Quibblo, Jeopardy Labs, Testmoz, Survey Monkey, Poll Everywhere, Quizlet

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Behaviorism Theory

Group presentation conveying the meaning of positive and negative reinforcements and punishments in the behaviorism theory.
Technology:  Prezi

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Cognitivism Theory

Group presentation on cooperative learning and its' relationship to Vygotsky's Social Development Theory.  Assignment included use and critique/analysis of an assigned concept mapping tool. 
Technology:  Webspiration. Prezi, Camtasia, and Jing

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Understanding Understanding

Website and group video research project about misconceptions and their impact on student learning. Technology:   video camera, Weebly, Camtasia, iMovie, and iTunes

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Naturally Occurring Alphabets

Making the familiar new by looking at things you look at everyday, but in a different way.
Technology:  digital camera, photo editing software

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Ball Drop Video

Group video presentation exploring misconceptions and the effect they have on how we learn.
Technology:  video camera, iMovie, YouTube

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Dream IT

Webpage detailing a technology based grant proposal.  Best practices in teaching (pedagogy), subject area knowledge (content), and technology (TPACK) come together in the project outlined in this proposal for transfomative learning in the classroom.
Technology:  Weebly, Scribd, web-camera

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Just Shoot Me

Our first assignment of the summer program was to upload a photo of ourselves taken on campus that would somehow represent us personally.  That's me doing a round-off in front of the Education banners at Erickson Hall.  I did a round-off because I coach cheerleading and also wanted to show the  exuberance I was feeling the first day of the program. The education banner reads, "Teaching for Tomorrow"s World."
Technology:  Picassa Web, digital camera

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De-Motivational Poster

The topic was behaviorism and what motivates students to learn. The group task was to create a poster depicting exactly the opposite!
Technology:  digital photography, Google Presentations

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Wicked Problem Project
Video Podcast

This project involved looking at an existing problem in my educational setting and designing, implementing, and  evaluating a technology-based solution for it.  This podcast details how using technology is useful for building academic vocabulary.
Technology:  Windows Movie Maker, video camera, YouTube, PowerPoint

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StAIR Project
Stand Alone Instructional Resource

The purpose of this project is to help the learner understand similarities and differences between word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software programs and then to be able to apply this knowledge when choosing which type of software to use in a given situation. The material is presented in Powerpoint in kiosk mode and is interactive and engaging. It was written to be used with middle school students.  It is published material on MERLOT.
Technology - PowerPoint in kiosk mode, AFS (netfiles)  storage space

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Educational Leadership/Tensions

Photography assignment illustrating the rigid vs. flexible tension in educational settings today.
Technology: Digital camera with tripod, Pixlr

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