Tag: grad school
The End is Near!
A recent email from a former classmate reminded me I should update my academic portfolio. It also made me want to figure out how many classes I’ve taken, how many more I need to take, and when I might graduate. A quick perusal of the unofficial transcript enabled me to update my academic portfolio. In…
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Studying
Last week was the second week of classes and the first real week of the semester. Both classes I’m taking are online and asynchronous, so the first week was mainly about introducing ourselves, while the second week was when the real work of the classes began. When I was in grade school, I hated doing…
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Vacation and school
Last week I took a week off from work to mentally prepare myself for going back to school, which started this week. I didn’t do anything spectacular for vacation, other than staying home and doing a bit of cleaning. The heat wave we’ve been having kept me inside most days, where I would plop down…
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A second look at Second Life
Since starting work on my master’s degree, I’ve found myself thinking more and more about Second Life, the online virtual world that once seemed to hold so much promise. Back in the day, I used to be a member, but eventually left because it was no longer this new, shiny, interesting thing. Last October, I…
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EDUC-R511 Instructional Technology Foundations
This will be sort of interesting. This semester, one of my professors wants us to blog about our thoughts on the assigned readings instead of discussing them in Canvas. The posts for the class will all be put in the same category to them easy to find. It gives me an excuse to write some…
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Academic portfolio
Many years ago, during the recession that started in 2008, I started going back to school to earn a TESOL certificate. I was thinking about this the other day when explaining to someone that I started working on a master’s degree this year. It seemed interesting that I started going back to school again in…
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