[Edu] Degree

[Carol Townsend]

Ryan - I am going to somehow find a way to put this up on the Academy's
Treehouse page!!

this SO rocks....

and congrats on the MAT!!!

Carol
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On 4/27/07, miyu <xmiyux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well today I presented and defended my work for my grad degree and
> successfully passed everything to finish up my MAT.  Go me. :)
>
> What was interesting though is I got into a semi-heated discussion of the
> role of technology in the classroom and I was arguing that it is being
> misused and there are far cheaper and easier alternatives to teach the
> children.  A professor was explaining to me how easily a PowerPoint
> demonstration could be used to visually illustrate teaching above, below,
> behind, in front of, to the side of, etc. in Spanish.  Unbeknownst to him
> this was the exact thing I had been working on recently.
>
> I reached into my school bag and pulled out a Treehouse stash.  I then
> demoed Tic-Tac-Doh! and showed how it could be used to teach all those
> concepts as well as colors and had the added benefit of the children
> actually participating instead of passively watching a screen.  Then my
> final clincher was to tell the panel my method costs 9$ retail plus
> shipping.... and asked what their computer, software and projector cost.
>
> :lol:
>
> You could have heard a pin drop.
>
> Everything though went very well, I passed with flying colors, and the
> only comment was that I wasn't dressed as professionally as the others (they
> were in suits and ties... I didn't even wear a tie when I got married let
> alone for a class).
>
>                             -Ryan
>
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