Wicked Problem Project Preview

Here is a preview of our Wicked Problem Project for the CEP-812 course at Michigan State University.  I am a member of the Failure as a Learning Mode – Group 2.  My other team members include Destiny Moore & Jamie Veld.  Please use the following link to our project draft:

Problem Based Learning & Failure as a Learning Mode

We look forward to your comments!

Community of Practice Survey

This week in CEP-812 we looked at our “Community of Practice”. Lave & Wenger describe a “Community of Practice” as “a set of relations among persons, activity, and the world”. Your community includes your colleagues at work, where you work, and the type of work that you do every day. A person can be involved in more than one community. For instance, you may have a community for your professional career and another for you hobbies.

Our assignment was to survey the technology habits of our educational community of practice. Not being a teacher myself, I had to extend my “Community of Practice”. I reached out to the instructors that I work with, the Kettering University Graduate Program Faculty.

Here is the report on the data collected.

 

References

josephluis. (2012). Extended Community Circle [online image].
 Retrieved February 21, 2014 from URL http://openclipart.org/image/800px/svg_to_png/170352/ExtendedCommunityCircle.png

Lave, J. & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Community of Practice. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved February 21, 2014
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice

Info Diet

What is your info diet?  Are you a healthy info nut, or a junk info junky? Most of us fall somewhere in between. Your info diet is the range of information that you consume every day, and sometimes we consume healthy products like BBC.com, and sometimes we consume junk like TMZ.com. 

This week I went on a diet.  I took a challenge to expand my info diet to include sources that do not line up with my typical personal ”tastes”. Let me take a moment to share the process and outcome.

Let me know what you think or what is in your info diet. Please leave a comment below.

References

BBC News. (n.d.). Home. BBC News. Retrieved February 12, 2014,
From http://www.bbc.com/news/

dpencilpusher (2011). Information Overload [Online image]. Retrieved February 12, 2014
From http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/060/f/7/information_overload_by_dpencilpusher-d3aphgc.jpg

TMZ. (n.d.). Home. TMZ. Retrieved February 12, 2014,
From http://www.tmz.com/

Video Captioning as an Inclusive Tool

The challenge presented to the students in CEP-812 this week was to build our own learning adventure. The focus of this adventure is based on how we can use technology to support students with special learning needs.

The technology that I selected to research is video captioning. In my work at Kettering University, we create many hours of video lectures each week for our graduate program. In my fourteen-year tenure, we have not had any students that require this assistance. When the request does arrive we want to be prepared to handle it, understand how to stay compliant with the applicable laws (Title 2 of The Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act), and most importantly how can we be more inclusive of all our of our students and their needs.

Here are my findings and suggestions.

References

Closed Captioning. (2014) in Wikipedia. Retrieved February 7, 2014,
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captioning

Close Caption Symbol [Online image]. (n.d.).Retrieved February 7, 2014

from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closed_captioning_symbol.svg

Kettering University (n.d.). Home Page. Kettering University Retrieved February 7, 2014,
from http://www.kettering.edu

US Department of Education-NIDRR (n.d.).  Overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Retrieved February 4, 2014,
from http://www.adaportal.org/General/ADA_Overview.html

US Department of Justice (2009). A Guide to Disability Rights Laws. Retrieved February 4, 2014,
from http://www.ada.gov/cguide.htm