The following blog post is a final project for one of my graduate classes this spring at Michigan State University – TE872 – Teachers as Teacher Leaders. The project encouraged us to address a problem or issue in education, provide reasons why it should be changed, modified, or widely known or available to teachers, make…
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The Hate U Give – Identity and Activism Text Set
The following blog post is from a final project for a graduate class taken in the Fall of 2018 at Michigan State University – TE849: Methods and Materials for Teaching Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Blog post updated in November 2020 and December 2022 with resources utilized in the classroom for the teaching of The…
Article of the Week – Revision for Literacy Support
The following blog post is a final project for one of my graduate classes this fall at Michigan State University – TE846: Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners. Disciplinary Literacy Project The project calls for a unit that I teach to be reviewed and revised to embed literacy support and accommodation. Instead of sharing unit and…
What is the Maker Movement?
Prior to taking CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technology to Education, my understanding of Maker Movement was limited to a few social media posts from Master of Arts in Education Technology staff and students, along with the few makerspaces I had heard about in libraries and various school districts and classrooms. Other than those limited vantage…
Learning Space Design Activity
In a perfect world, teachers would be able to create their ideal classrooms with all the supplies and materials they could ever want … no questions asked. In today’s world, teachers are able to claim up to $250 off of their taxes for personal spending that was used towards their classrooms and students. They are…
CEP 810 Reflection
My first graduate course, CEP 810 – Teaching for Understanding with Technology, is complete! It has been a fast paced seven weeks! I will be reflecting on aspects of the course that I enjoyed and struggled with, a recent proud moment concerning education technology, and the next steps of my education technology certificate and graduate…
My Professional Learning Network
This Popplet begins to showcase my Professional Learning Network or PLN. I say “begins” because the blue section representing the sub-PLN of Twitter is cut off and the Popplet is not very easy to read. Let’s take a closer look at the sub-PLNs in the slideshow below: These are the resources I reference when looking…