Annotated Transcript
Students in the Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program at Michigan State University (MSU) are afforded great flexibility in selecting courses tailored to their interests and needs. I completed half my courses through MAET program's summer abroad in Galway, Ireland. In addition to the master's degree, I also chose to pursue a Graduate Certificate in Educational Technology and a Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning.
This annotated transcript provides an overview of my coursework. All courses are coded "CEP" for the Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education department.
Summer Semester
2024
Overseas 2024:
Mindsets for Innovation
CEP 810
Teaching for Understanding with Technology
CEP 811
Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education
CEP 812
Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice
Dr. Christopher Sloan
This course combined the three courses listed above into an intensive, in-person, four-week course in Galway, Ireland. In completing these elective courses, I earned a Graduate Certificate in Educational Technology, and began my journey toward a Master of Arts in Educational Technology degree at MSU.
Using Warren Berger's book A More Beautiful Question as a through line, we explored a new topic each week. Projects overlapped the learning goals for all three courses, which included theories of learning, the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework (Mishra and Koehler, 2006), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), maker learning space design, and various types of problems of practice, including ill-structured and wicked problems.
The foundation of my website is the personal learning portfolio I created for this course. I also explored a broad range of topics, through group and individual projects, ranging from the how to ethically and effectively use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the classroom, to the wicked problem of standardized and alternative assessments. The highlight of the summer was the maker lab, for which I enlisted the help of my fellow MSU Galwegians to make pizza without a recipe.
Dr. Anne Heintz
This online, asynchronous course addressed issues of design in education using the Stanford design thinking process. It was the first of three courses required for my Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning, and an elective for my MAET degree.
The seven unit structure of the course provided a framework in which we creatively implemented the design process to solve real problems relating to teaching and technology. After an introduction to design, the course units followed the five steps of the design process–empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. In each unit, I applied a different design thinking step to my problem of practice, which was managing inventory in a culinary arts teaching kitchen. My final project for the course was creation of a comprehensive inventory management plan designed to meet teaching and learning objectives, as well as program management needs.​​​​
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Spring Semester
2025
Summer Semester
2025
Mr. Kyle Shack
This asynchronous, online course explored the wide variety of leadership skills and roles in education, as well as critical issues that face leaders, particularly regarding technology. It was an elective course for my MAET degree. We explored technology integration issues using the TPACK and SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) frameworks. In addition, we learned how to engage in critical conversations, employ leadership communication strategies, and plan and lead organizational change. My culminating project for the course was articulation of a personal leadership philosophy.
Dr. Anne Heintz
This asynchronous, online course prepared students for designing and teaching online courses. It was the second of three courses toward my Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning, and an elective for my MAET degree. In each unit, we were tasked with creating a teaching tool using the best practices for online learning environments, including UDL, humanizing, alignment, communication, and active learning. The culmination of the course was the creation of a personal manifesto of online teaching and learning.
MAET Overseas Summer 2025:
Educational Technology Abroad
Dr. Liz Owens Boltz and Dr. Christopher Sloan
This combined and condensed course integrated the two courses listed above into an intensive, in-person two-week course in Galway, Ireland. This learning abroad experience fulfilled two of the three major course requirements for the MAET degree. Using Shane Safir and Jamila Dugan's (2021) book Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation, we explored the intersection of theories of learning and action research. We learned, synthesized, created, and reflected on our learning through two major projects: a multi-modal theory of learning reflection and an action research plan.
Dr. Katherine Beleja
This course explores four major aspects of assessment: intention, alignment, meaning, and manageability. It is the third and final course requirement for my Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning, and the last elective for my MAET degree. This course first addresses the history and impact of grading and assessment in the United States, then challenges students to produce assessments within a variety of constraints, including technologies. The culminating activity is researching an assessment topic and creating a lesson and assessment on that topic to present to the class.
Fall
Semester
2025
Dr. Matthew Koehler
This course provides students with a structured process to engage in deep reflection about their work in the MAET program. This course is the final major course requirement for my MAET degree. In it, students in their last semester consider how their MAET program coursework changed them personally and professionally. This course allowed me to look back at who I was and what I expected from the program, and look forward to what I see in my future as a result of my MAET experience. It helped me capture these reflections in this digital portfolio, as shareable record and showcase of my accomplishments, and evidence of my learning.
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