Larry Jacques
Masters of Arts in Education Technology
Annotated Transcripts
Welcome to my annotated transcripts, a detailed list of courses taken to earn my Masters in Educational Technology
Summer 2013
CEP 810
Teaching for Understanding with Technology
Instructors: Emily Stone, Dr. Leigh Graves Wolf
In this introductory course we were initatied to the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework. This framework can be used to help make decsions about how to keep technology in balance with lesson planning and pedagogy. In this course we explored various technologies and thought about how they could be used in the TPACK framework. We created videos, screen shares, and blogs to create documentation as we progressed through the course. In this course we started to try out tools that can enhance collaboration between parties. I immediatly applied tools such as springpad to share websites, data, presentations, and notes with my collegues on a smoking cessation project
CEP 811
Adapting Innovative Tech to Education
Instructors: Dashika Missy Mccarthy,
Amy Pietrowski, Dr. Leigh Graves Wolf
This course taps your individual creativity by asking you to join the Maker culture. Each student is required to purchase some sort of mini computer that can be interfaced with the world often through sensors. We were then challenged to create a lesson around that piece of technology and teach it to others. The technology that I used was called a MakeyMakey. I wanted to use the device to teach about livestock management. In this project I combined the concepts of experiential learning, re-imagined learning (tech focus) and the MakeyMakey to create a plan for experiential technological learners.
The course allowed for reflection on how much we can do with out having the best and most expensive technologies, and that some of the best lessons in life are built not boughten.
CEP 812
Apply Education Technology to Practice
Instructors: Dr. Michelle Schira Hagerman
Emily Stone
CEP 800
Psychology of Learning in School and Other Settings
Instructor: Dr. Danah Henriksen
Fall 2013
This course allowed for the integration of some powerful tools that I am excited about using in the future. I really enjoyed using Audacity to record and edit an audio story. I used those recordings in a Prezi presentation to create a simple story about an individuals first time performing a marriage. See my Blog and embedded link. The tools have a great capacity to be used in the field of agricultural/natural resource education. I could see recording the wisdom of current farmers and educators and create a presentation that can be shared, and used within communities.
This course was focused on the use of technologies to help solve well-structured, ill-structured, and wicked problems. The course also created an opportunity to become aware of and engage in our information diets. The info diet assignment was about treating information like food, and labeling good information and bad information. There most important component of this project is that once we have information we are able to make choices, after reviewing my informational diet I decided that I needed to be consuming more case studies. The point is that we all deserve the power to make choices about our lives, and often good data is what fuels those choices.
Spring 2014
CEP 817
Learning Technology through Design
Instructors: Dr. Punya Mishra, Jon Good
EAD 877
Program Planning and Evaluation in Postsecondary Contexts
Instructor: Dr. William Arnold
Design is a process that can be used to enhance our educational products. When we create something the process may take many paths, and even many iterations, but there is always thought behind the work. This course had us create an educational tool that was an e-tool. My project Farm Builder is a means for reflecting on who you are and what your capabilities are for farming. The website and embedded presentation is designed to get new farmers to go through a series of thought tools. As the user progresses through the presentation they will be prompted to stop and fill in data. As they answer the questions they will become more confident in their abilites to farm, or they will recognize that they need more training. We were pushed to create something aesthetically pleasing, as individual users will respond better to good looking work.
Program Planning and Evaluation is an important part of creating effective programs. With program plannning we can ensure that all parties are involved, as many problems as possible are identified ahead of time, resources are properly allocated, and that all actions are measurable. WIth measurable actions we can evaluate outcomes. With evaluations we can determine what is the next best course of action. This course was immediatly rewarding as I was creating a logic model for the development of an agricultural certificate program in sync with the class. I was able to explore concepts in the course and directly apply it towards a program in development.
Summer 2014
CEP 820
Teaching Students Online
Instructors: Dr. Anne Heintz, Dr. Leigh Graves. Wolf, Sandra Sawaya
Online courses can be delivered in various formats. In this course we assessed tools that could be used to create an educational web site. The course included the creation of a fully functoning website that was called larrysagbiz.weebly.com. This site is an example of some of the concepts that we have been learning. First off simplicity is key in an educational website, therefore everything is in a very basic format, and an introduction is included to get students familiarized with the course. Second there is a focus on representing the material in various formats with images, text, and audio. The studetns are given assignments, but are allowed multiple means of representation, and engagement. This is and adoption of the Universal Design for Learning framework which allows for a greater number of students to participate in the coursework.
CEP 822
Approaches to Education Research
Instructors: Dr. E. David Wong, Tatyana Li
The culture of creating new research material moves the field of education along its path of better understanding learners and learning. The Approaches to Educational Research course prompted us to look into the edge of the field where perfect data has not yet been collected, and identify what we should collect for quality data sources. We practiced data collection, descriptive statistics, and looking for Bivariate relationships within the data. I explored questions relating to the future of extension as it relates to small scale farmers, and native communities. The information that I collected will allow for greater impacts as I continue working in these communities.
Fall 2014
CEP 807
Capstone Education Technology
Instructor: Dr. Matt Koehler
CEP 813
Electronic Portfolios
Instructors: Sandra. Sawaya, Dr. Michelle. Schira Hagerman
This course has us reflecting over the program summarizing all of the parts that make up the MAET program. By creating a web presence we can explain how the individual courses have given us value that employers seek. A high quality electronic portfolio has the ability to demonstrate specific areas in which we excel as learners and teachers. The act of reflection is one of the greatest tools in life, by reflecting we are giving ourselves the ability to make meaningful choices. If we take this concept of reflections via a portfolio we can apply it to other learners and give them the power to control their learning process, and their choices in life, and in the end come out of a program with confidence and a sumnation of their completed work.
This course is about the power of assessments, and how assessments can give students and teachers the information they need to create valuable future decisions. In the instructor's case assessment data can create more effective lesson plans. The students can clearly see goals and is engaged in creating solutions for making those goals. The course also has us making connections acorss various articles to synthesize ways in which assessment based education may be implemented. By applying this course I can create courses that are structured around continual imprvement, and enhanced transference of knowledge. Sometimes we find that students have trouble applying their theortical understanding of a concept to the real world, with this class I was able to create a peer-based method for enhancing transference of knowledge.
Please note that I intend to use the courses above to enhance my ability to educate others in Agriculture Buisness Management (my undergraduate program)
MSU Bachelors of Science Agriculture Business Management Courses
ABM 100 Decision Making in Agri-Food
ABM 222 Agribus/Food Ind Sales
ABM 225 Commodity Marketing I
ISS 305 Evaluating Evidence
ABM 210 Seminar in ABM
ABM 435 Fin Mgt in the Agri-Food Sys
FIM 220 Food Product Marketing
MGT 325 Management Skills
STT 200 Statistical Methods
IAH 206 Self, Society, Technology
MKT 327 Introduction to Marketing
ABM 130 Farm Management I
ABM 337 Labor & Pers Mgt in Agri-Food
ABM 410 Advanced Seminar in ABM
EEP 260 World Food Popul & Poverty
ABM 400 Public Pol Agri-Food System
ABM 422 Vert Coord in Agri-Food
ABM 437 Agribusiness Strategic Mgt
EEP 405 Corp Environ Mgt
ABM 493 Prof Internship in ABM
SCM 303 Introduction Supply Chain Mgt
ANS 110 Introduct Animal Agriculture
HRT 102 Plants for Food, Fun, & Profit
ISB 208L IS Biology Lab
ISP 203A Global Change
KIN 101M Great Lakes Sailing