Technology Leadership has been a great course for me and has solidified my desire to move towards leadership. After conducting the SWOT Analysis for an assignment, my administrators invited me to participate in a SWOT Analysis for our school regarding a variety of topics. So, I would certainly consider this course relevant. My experience from this course will greatly impact my school improvement because my assignments (SWOT Analysis, Shared Vision Survey, and Action Plan) provided the evidence I needed to present to my administration in order to begin a Technology Committee. This committee will develop a school-wide Technology Plan, along with other initiatives. We will have our first meeting before the end of the school year, and we will begin with data from my Tech Planning Project. My hopes are for us to review the analysis and plan to modify as the committee sees fit, and use those to develop our Technology Plan for 2017 – 2018!
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This course, Educational Research, has been my toughest course so far! Luckily, its professor was great at walking us through the content. I think this course was most difficult because it has been furthest from my comfort zone. I knew very little about quantitative and qualitative research, nor did I think I could successfully analyze it. However, Dr. Dias has been great with walking us through analysis of research. I thought the synchronous session with a practice run of our "Annotated Article" was highly beneficial because we were able to work through it together before attempting it on our own. In addition to the practice before our independent work, I like the way Dr. Dias split up our Capstone Proposal into sections. This made my proposal seem like a manageable "mountain" to climb. Her timely feedback was great because she provided specific details AND reasoning behind it. This helped me actually learn, rather than feeling like I was just "jumping through hoops".
The Capstone Proposal and the analysis on multiple research articles have built my confidence in this area. I am no expert, but I feel as though I can trust myself to analyze research for my school. This is a quality needed for anyone working with Instructional Technology. One of our standards requires us to analyze and evaluate tools, so my new understanding of how research is conducted and then presented will help me exhibit this within my field. |
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