The US1100 Seminar for Seniors is actually an asynchronous online course that provides graduating seniors with a last chance to complete a required course for graduation at Texas State University as part of a Common Experience. For freshmen, the course is meant to serve as transition to college life course. The curriculum is a bit different for the graduating seniors, focusing on their graduation from college and entrance into the work field. Students use LinkedIn for making connections in preparation for job seeking, find a job they would like to apply to, create resumes and cover letters sent to Texas State University’s Career Services for critique, identify likely interview questions, and conduct mock interviews with each other. Students also learn about social media professionalism and the notion of a “quarter-life” crisis. One assignment most particularly enjoy is interviewing family or friends who have graduated before them to learn more about their post-graduation life.
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This course was originally a part of the university’s New College program, which was developed specifically for non-traditional students (working adults, with or without families) to complete their degrees. The topic for this course is online communication and collaboration and is experiential in nature as it has students work together online to complete research, write a paper, and develop a presentation. Students also participate in discussion boards, LinkedIn posts, and Twitter, and use of a variety of online tools for getting the work done, including Facebook for discussions on a private page, HootSuite for Social Media Management, Google for developing wikis and co-writing, Doodle for scheduling, Zoom for video-conferencing, ASANA for project management, Penzu for journaling, Blogger, and Prezi. As leaders in their field, a critical part of this course has the students evaluating the types of online tools they are encountering for use in their work.
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This required course takes a close look at the phases of change experienced by employees when change occurs in the workplace. It contains opportunities for personal reflection, discussion boards, and application of concepts to personal professional experiences. Traditionally, this had been a face-to-face course, but with the decrease in the number of students, it has become hybrid with once weekly meetings via Zoom. There are two major projects in the course, including a research paper and an organization analysis paper.
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This required course takes a close look at the phases of change experienced by employees when change occurs in the workplace. It contains opportunities for personal reflection, discussion boards, and application of concepts to personal professional experiences. Traditionally, this had been a face-to-face course, but with the decrease in the number of students, it has become hybrid with once weekly meetings via Zoom. There are two major projects in the course, including a research paper and an organization analysis paper.
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This required face-to-face course is a pre-capstone required course of all St. Edward’s students. It takes a closer look at the social dilemmas facing our society today. Students begin researching their specific area of interest in preparation for their capstone paper. Each year, St. Edward’s has a Capstone Paper of the year.
Below you will see a embedded spreadsheet used for Our American Life Project that served as a data collection point about social dilemmas in
America from 1890 forward. Flip through the book to see a sample syllabus, screenshots from the online course, and course evaluations.
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This required face-to-face course occurred simultaneously while students interned at a local middle school. The course focused on the changing landscape of the urban secondary school setting and the demands placed on teachers within secondary schools. Areas of focus will include: adolescent literacy, multilingual students, writing, and the 21st Century literacy skills. Students will consider the multiple literacies adolescents, especially those identified as long-term English language learners, bring into the secondary classroom, and the tools and techniques necessary to leverage those literacies in that classroom. This class looked at three books specifically: English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Things by Pauline Gibbons, Choice Words, by Peter Johnston, and Think-Aloud strategies: Modeling What Good Readers Do by Jeffrey Wilhem and introduced students to the idea of disciplinary literacies, which allowed them to use metacogitive strategies with their own middle school students. Students journaled, reflecting on mini teaches conducted in the classroom, practiced and critiqued metacogitive thinking, wrote a literacy memoir, and created and presented their own books.
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This hybrid course was one I taught for my chair. The purpose of the course was to provide Learning Technology graduate students (both master’s and doctoral) with experiential opportunities to become a part of the “participation culture” of the Internet by producing content, and giving and receiving feedback. Topics included how technology changes everyday living and learning experiences.
Flip through the following to see a sample syllabus, the course planning matrix, screenshots from the online course, and an course evaluation sample.
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