What a year this has been! While I have taken much away from my experience as a Kenan Fellow, the culmination of the program is the completion of our projects as a product to be used by other teachers around the state. As a game design teacher, I struggled with this portion for a number of weeks last summer before it… Read more »
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8&w=420&h=315] One cannot discuss the changes undergone as a Kenan fellow without at least giving a nod to the late David Bowie. As he says in his song Changes: I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm impermanence and So the days float through my eyes But still the days seem the same… Read more »
As teachers, we know the value of providing excellent mentors for our students but we often find ourselves pigeon-holed in terms of making such connections for ourselves. Sure, we have our coworkers and fellow department members and, of course, we have to do our required annual professional development sessions/activities, but these connections and activities typically don’t challenge us to think… Read more »
Thanks to my Kenan Fellowship, I have had the opportunity to take part in a number of new experiences, on top of learning new skills and techniques to be a better teacher in my classroom. Although I have not posted this sooner (we all know how busy a teacher’s life can be!), I wanted to mention my latest experience as… Read more »
Having nearly completely the first two weeks of the 2015-16 school year, I am starting to see how the Kenan experience is currently and will continue to have an effect on me, my individual students and my classes overall. Besides connecting me with some of the most knowledgeable and professional individuals I have ever met, taking part in the training and… Read more »
This week’s post is all about connecting how my internship relates to to my classroom. For me, there are a couple of connections used in the lessons I designed for the ASSIST Center and ultimately for my Kenan Project. One of the curriculum I teach is Scientific Visualization, which contains a unit on data visualization. My internship at the ASSIST Center involved working with… Read more »
This week’s post examines what it was like to be involved at the ASSIST Center for my internship and what I got out of my experience while there. For starters, my internship wrapped up last Friday, before the second Kenan Professional Advancement Institute. And, while others are still working at theirs, I am comfortable in the knowledge that the wearable… Read more »
While I fully expected my time at the ASSIST Center as part of my Kenan Fellowship to be challenging, I was not fully ready for what I experienced! This week’s post will discuss some of the challenges I faced along the way as well as the success I ultimately encountered during my time at North Carolina State University. Perhaps the biggest challenge… Read more »
This week’s prompt asks the Kenan Fellows how we see our internship benefiting our mentor’s organization. And, because I need to do a lot of work on this exact topic prior to next Friday’s poster session, I have to say this week’s post will be considerably shorter than past posts. As a member of Team Nano, I feel it is pretty… Read more »
After having a great time while attending the Kenan professional advancement workshop at NCCAT last week, I was ready to return to my internship at the ASSIST Center and find out more of what is expected of us as well as learn more about sensor devices. And, although it was a short week due to the holiday weekend, what a… Read more »
