EdS+Courses

Includes:

 * timeline of degree completion
 * course names and descriptions
 * course syllabi
 * links to work portfolios for courses completed

Prerequisite: Basic computer skills; restricted to Ed.S. students only; Advanced topics in the theory, selection, production, and utilization of technology-based instructional materials will be examined, and issues, trends, and problems in instructional technology will be emphasized.
 * ===Semester=== || ===Course Description=== || ===Notes=== ||
 * ====**Fall 2008**==== || **MEDT 8463 Issues in Instructional Technology ([|syllabus])**

Portfolio Link (download folder, unzip, open //PowerPoint//, go into //Slide Show// mode, and click links) || The transcript name of MEDT 8463 will be MEDT 7485, which is an independent study section. || This course is a study of human growth and development from birth through aging and death. The course focuses on the physical, cognitive, social, personality, and emotional development as a series of progressive changes resulting from the biological being’s interaction with the environment. These changes will be studied within historical, multicultural, and special-needs contexts of development. ||  || Exploration of basic principles of photography including the elements of light, subject, camera, film, and composition. Digital and 35mm instructional applications of photography in the workplace, developing black and white negatives and prints, shooting high-quality digital photographs, and how to enhance digital photographs are covered. Portfolio Link
 * ====**Spring 2009**==== || n/a || n/a ||
 * ====**Summer 2009**==== || **CEPD 8102 Lifespan Human Development ([|syllabus])**
 * ====**Fall 2009**==== || **MEDT 7466 Digital and 35mm Photography ([|syllabus])**

This course will study effective communication skills, group dynamics, time management, and facilities planning with special emphasis on applying these skills to facilitate the integration of newer technologies into school library media centers and classrooms. Portfolio Link || The transcript name of MEDT 8461 will be MEDT 6462 N01: Admin of Instr Tech Prog. || To earn credit in this independent study course, I have served as the project manager for a online course review project. As a part of their coursework in MEDT 7472: Introduction to Distance Education, graduate instructional technology students reviewed online courses from both a blended middle school setting, and a fully online high school setting. Students reviewed in teams of 3-4, using an adapted //iNACOL National Standards of Quality for Online Courses// instrument and a curriculum alignment document to ensure proper coverage of the Georgia Performance Standards.
 * MEDT 8461 Diffusion of Innovations ([|syllabus])**
 * ====**Spring 2010**==== || During this semester, I am actually doing most of the work for the upcoming Special Topics course for summer 2010. || During this semester, I completed NCATE self-assessment documentation as follows:
 * Field Experience and Impact Log
 * Standards and Conceptual Framework Chart --aligns my work with NETS
 * Dispositions Rubric ||
 * ====**Summer 2010**==== || **MEDT 7485: 21st Century Media &... (formerly called Special Topics in Media) (Henry County Project)**

As the project manager, I designed this new portion of the course (covering approximately 50% of the semester) inside of //BlackBoard//. I created a private wiki in which our students could interface with one another and with the teachers and administrators of the participating school district. Use of the wiki has facilitated both transparency of communication and effort; as well as created a natural place to capture data.

As project manager, I have been responsible for setting timelines, imposing deadlines, creating assignments and discussions, creating learning modules, creating video tutorials, managing the wiki space in which students collaborated, and interfacing between the Henry County school educators and the MEDT graduate students. I also modified the iNACOL standards document, created the GPS alignment documents, and co-created pre and post surveys of the participating teachers. The project took place from December 2009 through July 2010.

This independent study arose as a result of presenting at the Georgia Educational Technology Conference in November 2009. The initial ideas began at that conference, and project planning was fully underway in December and deployed the first instance of it from January through May 2010. The second deployment occurs during summer 2010, and the same learning modules will be used.

For a more in-depth look at the project, please see [|Enhancing quality in K-12 online learning: Course reviewing through a project-based partnership]. ||  || This course examines mixed methods (both quantitative and qualitative) used in media and instructional technology. Because the course addresses both theoretical and practical dimensions of educational research, every student is expected to study exemplary research studies through printed materials. Students are also expected to conduct action research studies in school settings and start developing an electronic research portfolio. This seminar will also introduce computer-based data analysis packages commonly used in instructional technology research. Portfolio Link Class Page
 * ====**Fall 2010**==== || **MEDT 8484: Research Seminar ([|syllabus])**

The course provides an overview of systematic approaches to instructional planning, development, and evaluation. Portfolio Link Class Page || I will probably complete Data Networks as an independent study. The reason is that Dr. Bray and I are working on a way for me to complete the course work prior to his next semester to teach the course. I will complete the projects in the course, and I will additionally create new tutorials of the entire process. Why new tutorials? Dr. Bray is using an entirely new tool-set, and therefore, the tutorials aren't yet made. As a result of this collaboration, I will know how to build a server, work in //XAMPP//, //Ubuntu//, //Virtual PC//, //Joomla//, //Moodle//, and possibly //Elgg//. We will meet in summer 2010 to firm up the exact plan of action. We will build the course for spring 2011 deployment. || The design and development of data networks for instructional settings will be covered. In addition to current trends and issues, students will also explore how to use data networks for a variety of instructional contexts and how to perform basic network trouble shooting and repair.
 * MEDT 7461: Instructional Design (syllabus)**
 * ====**Spring 2011**==== || **MEDT 7471: Data Networks for Instruction (syllabus)**

This course is designed to prepare students to effectively and efficiently participate in program evaluation at the school sites. Students are expected to evaluate efficacy of existing programs and/or the appropriateness of programs being considered for implementation. ||  ||
 * MEDT 8480: Program Evaluation ([|syllabus])**
 * ====**Summer 2011**==== || 1 class may spill over into this semester, if needed. ||  ||

University of West Georgia Graduate Catalog 2009-2010

Notes to Self:
1 class I would like to take if I can squeeze it in is MEDT 7468: Introduction to Multimedia (syllabus ) (web design & //Dreamweaver//).