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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
I have a number of goals in mind for how I plan to use the knowledge and experience I gain as a Kenan Fellow doing an internship at the NC State ASSIST Center to improve my curriculum. As I have on the About My Fellowship page, one of my goals relates to learning about the different kinds of visualization techniques that… Read more »
In applying to become a Kenan Fellow, I had a number of goals in mind. First, I have now worked as a teacher for 12 years, with a number of years of experience outside of education prior to that. While I love what I do, there is something about seeing what goes on outside of education where employers/employees use many of the skills… Read more »
