EPET – Page 2 – Andrea Zellner

And so begins the second year

It is an exciting and bittersweet time for me in my program. We began the second year of our program this past Monday with staggered synchronous Skype calls with our instructors. I am a member of the hybrid EPET cohort, you see, so we have folks all over the world and all of us are… Continue reading And so begins the second year

Festival of Awkward: First Committee Meeting

According to my handbook and my advisor, an initial gathering of my committee would have a few, relatively painless elements: I would discuss my career goals, talk about my research interests, and end up with a plan of courses I pledge to take over the duration of my program. So in the past weeks, I… Continue reading Festival of Awkward: First Committee Meeting

How to Hack it on Twitter

by Andrea Zellner and Leigh Graves Wolf (cross posted on each blog) Recently we have had conversations with fellow grad students about the value of Twitter. This post is targeted towards those of you who may have a foot in the stream, but aren’t quite sure how to navigate the waters. One colleague tweeted [approximately]… Continue reading How to Hack it on Twitter

I think I’ve found religion, or was that stats?

One of the goals I have identified for this blog is to chart some of my growth as a student over the course of my program. I feel like I need to state that from the beginning of this post, because I am going to proceed to explain my new love and obsession: methods of… Continue reading I think I’ve found religion, or was that stats?

Know thyself, Researcher

I’ve been thinking a lot about research design lately, mostly because I am a graduate student (and really, what else do we think about?) but also because there are so many interesting studies I’ve been reading that employ a wide variety of design, philosophy, and methods. In the first chapter, Creswell lays out a general… Continue reading Know thyself, Researcher

The Educational Affordances of Flash Mobs: Our SITE 2011 preso

The SITE (Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education) conference is going on in Nashville right now, but I was already on the hook for the National Writing Project’s Rural Sites Network Conference in Little Rock. While I can’t be there in person for the SITE presentation, I wanted to use this space as a… Continue reading The Educational Affordances of Flash Mobs: Our SITE 2011 preso

Using the iPad to hack the grad school workflow

I am lucky to be a member of the inaugural cohort of the hybrid Phd in Ed Psych/Ed Tech at Michigan State University. Not only do we do the majority of our coursework online, but we were lent an iPad to assist in our studies. As I’ve gotten to know said iPad, I’ve discovered a… Continue reading Using the iPad to hack the grad school workflow

#Jobs4Phds or Finding a Job Outside of Academia

Yesterday, the MSU Grad School hosted an event called “How to Find a Job Outside Academia, Even if You Aren’t Sure that You Want One.” The speaker was Dr. Susan Basalla, co-author with Dr. Maggie Debelius of “So What Are You Going to Do with That?” Finding Jobs Outside Academia. Clearly, this whole question has… Continue reading #Jobs4Phds or Finding a Job Outside of Academia

What am I doing again? PhD update

photo © 2008 Stephanie Hawver | more info (via: Wylio) There are two questions I hear most about my recent undertaking of a doctoral program: 1) What’s it like? and 2) What are you going to do with that? First, in case you haven’t known me for very long, a bit about my personality. I’ve… Continue reading What am I doing again? PhD update

I bubble “Why?”

photo © 2008 woodley wonderworks | more info (via: Wylio) When I think of the people I know who do tech stuff really well, from integrating it into their classrooms to overseeing district policies to those working in the private sector, they hold in common that they tend to tinker, they question what the rest… Continue reading I bubble “Why?”