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Gabriel Metzger's Portfolio
Showcase: As a Technology and Educational leader, I use technology to change my teaching style (pedagogy). Welcome to the courses that I Completed in our Masters Program.
Item 1 I teach art throught English but the tool of technology can help teachers. I am with my students in this project for Creativity Online. The act of truly observing an object for what it is, changingmy ideas about art and recycling for example.
Could plastic bottles be seen as part of the creative world? Click the link to see how I perceived plastic bottles in a creative way. The plastic bottle is on the right.
Item 2 How to look at Perception: I had to look at a topic in different ways to see all the ways of teaching about subjects. Click the icon to read the text about how to perceive different topics.
Item 3: Using technology to create my creative writing class through the software online through Weebly. In this program with a focus on Educational and Technological leadership I needed to take the step and learn about teaching and grading online. Here here the link to my course. It is unfinished but I am changing my teaching process using technology. Click on the button to go to the site.
Item 4: I learned that learning online can be challenging working with another person from another part of the world and in my case we had to teacher other teachers through technology about Art history. This was interesting and challenging for us.
Item 5: Learning how see the world how people see race was very important in my studies and my educational goals. I had include Stuart Hall's ideas on media and representation of race and the distortions that are there. I included the pdf transcript his talk about media and race.
Item 6: My creative writing class through Weebly has been one of my best leadership tasks and here is my screen cast showing the the site had to have videos embedded and added on and a blog and a means to grade. Click the link and see how I would run my class
Item 7: I learned via the Internet how to become a better teacher for an online class by discussing items back and forth via the Internet and getting used to the technology afforded me. Click the link to see my online discussion with my classmates for our Educational psychology course.
Item 8: Working out a group presentation for Educational Psychology was a challenge, this was not a focus of mine but of interest, and a group of school counselors working out a school based problem. Here is an embedded video that shows what I learned.
The problem we worked out what getting African American girls students to graduate from highschool and not drop out.
Here is a gallery of trying to to perceive recycling and creating art with a recylable object. Click photo above.
Working out our presentation for a group of teachers at a school. This was a 'mock' demonstration for a school but it still helped me learn a lot about teaching other teachers and running and educational seminar. Here is the pdf for the presentation.
This is the transcript of the above presenation that the teacher recorded of Stuart Hall's lecture about how the media shapes how we see people.
Gabriel Metzger's Portfolio
My essay on perception and looking at ideas.
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