iMET 11

285 Technology and Modern Practices

This course will focus on modern communications technology, terminology, educational practices, and instructional technology strategies. Emphasis will be placed on mentoring, management, and leadership.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing (Courses is listed). 3 units.

iMet Course Objectives

• Experience mentoring as a step towards leadership in educational technology.
• Journal mentoring experience through digital means.
• Examine personal teaching style through reflective process.
• Select and create reflection using a medium of you choice (word processing, video, etc).

Weekly topics

• What mentoring is, what it’s not
• Personal Mentoring Philosophy
• Mentoring Roles and Relationships
• Mentoring Phases and Expectations
• Finding a Mentee
• Mentor-Mentee Plan
• Feedback from Mentee
• Connecting mentoring to leadership
• Scaffolding for final project
  

Class Structure

• Each Friday a task will be posted by 12:00 PM for the following Thursday. If the assignment is not a Tapped In session, the task will be related to mentoring project development and designed to officially to begin on the following Thursday - though students may work on the assignment at any time. Due dates, if there are dues dates,
  will be listed with each assignment posted.


• As part of the mentoring process, each student will create a Blog to serve as a journal for the duration of the mentoring project.


• Sometime between 02/15/09 and 04/19/09 (note: and not before 02/15/09) each student will conduct a minimum of 4 - 1 to 2 hour mentoring sessions with an adult mentee who is not a family member, wherein the student will take the role of mentor and teach a technology skill to their mentee. Students will use the Mentoring Process Forms
  to record the experience.


• Each student will record their feelings and experiences regarding the planning, design and implementation of the 4 mentoring sessions and at whatever other points they have thoughts regarding the mentoring process on their Blog.

Final Project

Grading Policy

Instructor