While completing all of my assignments, I adhered to the ISTE Standards for Teachers, and this portfolio contains artifacts that demonstrate my dedication to those standards. Below you will find

Reflection

My motivation for pursuing a master's degree in educational technology was not only to elevate my own instructional practice, but also to support my colleagues as they began navigating online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. My coursework has absolutely empowered me to be an agent for change in any educational setting.

Both the Workplace Technology Plan and the Needs Assessment equipped me with the skills and experience necessary to identify a technological need either at the workplace or curriculum level, perform a needs analysis, create a plan with a budget, and implement that plan, all with the stakeholders in mind. Compiling this portfolio allows me to further support my professional learning community by sharing what I have learned broadly over the internet.

Artifacts

Workplace Technology Plan

Needs Assessment

National Standards Capstone Portfolio

Reflection

This portfolio is perhaps the best artifact to illustrate that I am a connected learner. By constructing this portfolio, I demonstrate that I am a part of a global community of educators who strive to implement educational technology for the good of my field as well as any other to which my work could be useful. Further, my grades in my courses demonstrate that I have attained the level of expertise that is expected for one who holds a master's degree in educational technology.

Artifacts

National Standards Capstone Portfolio

Grades

Reflection

Throughout this program, I have collaborated with my colleagues at the English Language Institute in order to create a needs assessment for an intermediate reading and writing class and generate a practical workplace technology plan that meets the technological needs of all faculty members as well as provides individualized or group support depending on their comfort with technology. The professional development course created for the instructional design project is designed to help instructors consider alternative means of student assessment in order to better serve students in a digital learning environment. These opportunities to support and collaborate with my colleagues have been invaluable in my professional development on the path of becoming an educational technology specialist.

Artifacts

Needs Assessment

Instructional Design

Workplace Technology Plan

Reflection

One of the many challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic was the need to make online content engaging for learners without overwhelming them with too many apps and websites. To that end, I collaborated with many colleagues to come up with a multimedia eLearning environment that provided a variety of support in order to support all learners and conducted a needs assessment to better tailor an intermediate writing course to the interests of students. Throughout all of my projects, I gave special attention to digital tools that would support student assessment without posing a burden to instructors given their already overwhelming workloads.

Artifacts

Multimedia eLearning Environment

Needs Assessment

Curriculum Project

Action Research Project

Instructional Design

Reflection

Throughout the M.Ed. in Educational Technology courses, I have had many opportunities to practice designing and presenting professional learning opportunities through a number of presentations on topics ranging from relevant pedagogical theories to the use and implementation of specific educational applications. The culmination of this dedication to designing effective, engaging professional learning was my curriculum design project, in which I designed an asynchronous professional development course to support teachers in designing creative assessments using Canva.

Artifacts

Needs Assessment

Action Research Project

Instructional Design

Reflection

One of the motivating factors for the professional development course that I created for my curriculum project was a common concern among instructors in my department about the potential for academic dishonesty when students are learning remotely. One potential solution to this problem is to modify assessments to be project based and have creative elements that are much more difficult to plagiarize. Having accurate assessment data will allow instructors to better plan and modify their instruction to meet student needs. The data gathered from the action research project will help instructors create more effective asynchronous instructional material.

Artifacts

Curriculum Project

Action Research Project

Reflection

Throughout this program, I have made an effort to build responsible digital citizenship into several projects. However, I believe that responsible digital citizenship cannot be taught in a simple module, but rather must be an ongoing conversation between educators, school leaders, and learners that both meets them where they are and evolves along with the available technologies. As digital misinformation becomes more sophisticated, so too must learners become more critical in their analysis of the veracity and bias present in the content that they consume.

Artifacts

Multimedia eLearning Environment

Curriculum Project

Workplace Technology Plan