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 »
One of the lessons I learned many years ago after I started teaching is the importance of continuing to be a lifelong learner myself. As a CTE teacher, it is critical to one’s career to know that the material and curriculum we teach changes quickly and typically more frequently than most other educational areas. Technology constantly progresses and to help our… 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 »
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 »
It is hard for me to believe that most of the cohorts in this fellowship have only spent a single week together. Friendships were formed and bonds created among the members of this truly amazing group! Over the course of the week, we spent the time talking, learning, experiencing and laughing together. While each of the cohorts is involved in… 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 »
What a great start to my Kenan experience! I am enjoying taking in all the information our group is receiving from Jess Jur and his fellow staff members at NC State’s Assist center as well as interacting and sharing with the other educators who are involved in the wearable devices group! I have already learned a lot about sensor devices, gotten… Read more »