STEPHANIE LEE
ED 870 - Capstone Seminar
Instructors: Matthew Koehler, Joshua Rosenberg, Spencer Greenhalgh, and Brittany Dillon | Summer 2014
ED 870 explores the building and use of electronic portfolios to demonstrate the culmination of learning that took place throughout the course of the Master of Arts in Education program at Michigan State University. The course is divided into weekly assignments to build up the a website and a series of feedback from the instructors and classmates. This Wix website is the product of my participation in the ED 870 course. Here, I use Wix web space to reflect on my experiences in the program and set future goals. The ability to design a website has been enpowering.
CEP 813 - Electronic Portfolios for Teaching and Learning
Instructors: Patrick Dickson and Catalina Park | Fall 2013
CEP 813 explores the concept of the electronic portfolio, or e-portfolio, in depth. The course aims to familiarize students with technical and conceptual tools for creating the final capstone portfolio. I learned how to use the website design program, Weebly. How I was able to manipulate a template in Weebly proved very useful in my ED 870 Capstone course.
ED 800 - Concepts of Educational Inquiry
Instructors: Steven Weiland and Nathan Clason | Spring 2013
ED 800 explores the foundational and theoretical aspects of the study of education. The units covered different topics including pre-school inquiry, learning biographies of historical American figures, and an anthropological look at education as an outsider looking in. The most interesting assigned reading in this course was Howard Gardner's Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter because Gardner presented insightful ideas about our responsibilities to our minds and thought processes.
EAD 882 - Education in the Digital Age
Instructor: Steven Weiland | Fall 2013
EAD 882 explores the influence, use, and incorporation of digital technologies in education. In order to cover a range of topics related to the new digital technologies, the course was divided into five categories: history and demography, new literacies, online teaching and learning, the digital infrastructure, and the status and prospects of educational institutions. Different formats for reading can co-exist even as we learn more about just what we are losing with the rush toward screens. Essentially, this course probed the everyday usage of technology and critically analyzed what exactly people make, or can make, of any technology.