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I choose to center on the third point here, but all of these points resonate with the use of educational technologies to advance our studies and fields of learning. In the picture to the right, you see a student at one of our laboratory tables getting a big kiss from a yellow lab. That yellow lab is my dog, and his name is Tucker. Hands-on activities are a staple of this college as we have a 350-acre classroom right out our back doors. So integrating technology must be done in a way that will assist our teaching strategies, strengthening the students ability to learn and understand the information while allowing them to get the most out of their hands-on experiences.

The Functional Anatomy of Domestic Animals is one such lab that I believe would benefit greatly from the introduction of new technologies, allowing students to expand upon their laboratory time.

The goal is to create a learning environment based upon new methodologies of how students learn and use technology both outside and within the classroom to further the students learning. This project will be used to create the framework to employ different technologies to offload the content covered in lab and to strengthen the learning-centered laboratory environment (McLaughlin, et.al., 2013). I am looking a 3 different phases of the project, the first and second being immediate changes that will take place this Spring of 2015, and evaluated at the end of the course. The third consists of additional technology and room design that will rely on acquiring the funding first. However, there may be some parts that we can adjust in the meantime while we await the full renovation.

Please enjoy the site and I hope you get to learn a little more about what goes on "over the bridge" here on South Campus!