CEDO 599 Week 2 Capstone Project Timeline & SMART Goals

This week after meeting with our professor, we were supposed to not only flesh out our project, but also to come up with a timeline for the completion of our project. This is one of the most difficult things I have had to do during this MEIT program. I know how to build sites, but to be able to plan how long each part will take in order to do a good job is the difficult part. The first site I made public was a robotics website that dealt with the basic physics of how a combat robot would work. This was built in 2001, and when I was done with my research, contacting people for permission to use their photos and also figure out how to create a site using HTML I have a feeling that 100 hours of work went into my site. With the advances of WYSIWYG site creation, I am sure the creation of the site will not be the major issue. Deciding on the applications and making sure there are how to FAQs or video so that people who are not familiar with the applications can use them will be the most time consuming part of this project. Making everything flow well and make sense will also consume lots of time since I am very picky about how things look. Here is a link to my timeline and SMART Goals. Let me know what you think.

CEDO 599 Week One

This is the first week of the last class in the MEIT cohort from Cardinal Stritch University that I have been part of for the last two years. In some ways, I am happy that I will soon have my Masters Degree (if I successfully complete this capstone project). I am somewhat at an impasse at this moment. I would like to be able to include most of the programs and applications that we have used over the last two years, but I know that will be too time consuming to be able to complete. I was thinking about creating a web page that could be used as a resource by my students (present, past and future) to integrate technology a bit more into their learning. My next task is to run this by my instructor and hope that it is a idea that is approved.

Week 6 CEDO 565

Good leadership is much more than someone telling others what to do. This class has made e reevaluate my ideas and thoughts on what leadership fundamentally is. It's not just a position, it is much more than that. Leadership can happen at any level of an organization, not just from a person who has the title of leader. Even though we have taken a leadership quality survey, I really had a hard time seeing myself a leader with regards to my peers in addition to my students. But I guess with my peers, I do lead in different things. There is a reason that people come to me when they are having trouble with technology. There is a reason that people seek me out to fix things that are broken (not only items, but even implementations of ideas). I have always seen myself as somewhat of a Renaissance handy man. If there is something that needs to be fixed, regardless of if it is technology or something else, I have no problems in attempting to fix it. I also have no problems in recognizing when fixing something is beyond me (either due to ignorance on my part or lack of time or equipment). So in all, I have learned lots about leadership, how the stress of leadership can cause some of the "goofy" actions of those that lead (usually due to feeling like they are banging their head against a wall) why leaders tend to ask the same people to help them over and over again and how I function as a leader at my site. Instead of having a "useless theory" class like many have had in undergraduate, this class really has led me to understand more about leadership, both good and bad.