Monday, December 8, 2008

Career Presentations, cont'd.

Notes from Class:
Aaron- Foreign Language “Concerned Professor”

- Journals: CALICO (Computer-Aided Language Instruction Consortium)

- How can we create something for this type of math course and make it so that other people can use that in a different course and be able to change it according to their needs?

Mike Johnson, Project Manager at the CTL-

Ric Ott, Director of Research & Evaluation at the MTC

- “I love the challenge, and I like to do things that are hard to do.”

- A lot of writing

- Excited about data crunching

- Measures success by quality work

Foreign Language Professor Michael Bush (Anneke)

- Keep a journal of how you learn the language- ideas you have

o Could do through your blog

- Challenge your own belief system of how you learn a language

Virtual Tours of Church History Sites

- Something a little beyond paper

- WE can give a vision to people. We can SHOW them what happened

- All of this has come together, right now, right here. We can do this.

- If you can think it, you can do it. Take time to produce something of church quality, you need the Spirit of the Lord as you’re putting this together

- Give others a vision through technology- SHOW them so that they too may know.

Jason Mitchell, Manager of Training at MTC

- Loves his job—has passion for learning about learning

- Background in Public Administration

Steve Hume

- “There is no typical day.”

- Make sure every person has the class they need; that their CPR certification hasn’t expired

- A lot of running analyses of data



Personal Summary:
I really liked class today. I thought all of the video presentations were well-done. It was interesting to see the one about the MTC because that's a bit of a mystery to me, and it was neat to see what it's like to work there. I also enjoyed the comment that we as designers might consider writing down our ideas in a notebook somewhere so we can have them. I know a lot of times I think of things I want to follow up on but then I forget them before I can do so. It's hard to think of a medium that will always be easy to access, though. But it's a really good idea.

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