New adventures in my own education
10 years ago last December, I graduated from SIUE with a master’s in Instructional Technology. At the time, I had no idea where that degree would take me or where I would be 10 years later. Over those 10 years, I have spent time as a corporate trainer, classroom teacher and Technology Integration Specialist. As 10 years passed, I took some time to think about why I even started that program and the goals that I had then. At that point, I was teaching a class called Modern Media and had a room full of computers that I need to figure out how to use with my class. I began dabbling in web design, video editing and productivity applications to make my class work the way I wanted it to.
Upon graduating, I took nine months before returning to the classroom and establishing my “paperless classroom” in 2004. One of the things that I’m grateful for is that I use my degree on a daily basis and it has guided much of my career including being an adjunct professor. Now I find myself back in the classroom as a grad student enrolled in the Web-based Learning certificate that didn’t exist when I was enrolled before. This spring I am taking a class called Performance Technology. We are in our first week and I find it fascinating. I’m just getting started, but I’m seeing even more of the big picture when looking at the inner workings of districts and schools that I read about and work with. As a part of the class, we are required to find various articles dealing with our text and write summaries and reactions to them. I plan to post them on this blog to document my learning and thinking.
