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Zoe and me. I am in the Certificate Program in Online Teaching and Learning Practices. R622 is my first course.

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Hometown: Sao Paulo, Brazil

Current location: Fishers, IN

Current Occupation: Education Coordinator for the IU Histotechnology Program (Pathology Department, School of Medicine). This course is offered 100% online with synchronous and asynchronous portions. It also has a practicum portion where students work on hands-on lab assignments at the laboratories where they work (and/or train)

What do you want to do all day?
It depends on the day. Spending time with my daughter comes in first place. I also like staying at home and cuddle with my pets. Cuddling in general is A-OK with me. I wish I had time to make more drawings  There's much more, but these come to mind first.

But what do you really do all day?
Interact with my students, come up with ideas to make our recorded lectures better with technology use, take care of Zoe, my awesome daughter, try to keep the house in order, cook, clean, and do small home repairs.

Who is your superhero alter ego:
Captain Mar-Vel. Probably the mightiest and most overpowered Marvel superheroes. I like girls who kick-BX&@!

When you are not cramming your brain in class, you are:
doing what I really do all day, described above ↑

Last thing I learned:
How to screen a porch by myself.

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Hello! I'm a 2nd Year Ed.D. student in the Instructional Systems Technology program.

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Current Location: Roanoke, Virginia

Occupation: Instructional design supervisor at PowerSchool Group, LLC (K-12 EdTech company)

Academic Background:

B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia

M.Ed. in Instructional Design and Technology from Virginia Tech

What I do all day: Develop curriculum and training content for in-person and online learning.

Hobbies: Training for and competing in triathlons (full distance Ironmans, half Ironmans, and other distances too)

Alternate Universe Experience:
I would be a 2D/3D cartoon animator!

The Last Think I Learned:
Dave Merrill's First Principles of Instruction (R547 summer class)

What I hope to Learn in this Course:
I'm looking forward to learning from Dr. Bonk, my advisor! I'm also looking for strategies, tips, techniques, and resources on building effective learning environments.

Let's Connect on Linkedin!

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Running in the winter wearing my "The Devil made me do it" t-shirt from running 666 days in a row. My dog Oliver is on the front. He is crazy cool.

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Hometown: Milwaukee, WI

Current Location: My basement man-cave home office looking out over the forest. I emptied my IU office at the end of 2021. Took 35 suitcases of books and papers to the Bloomington Recycling center and a few things to Goodwill.

What do I do when not working: You have to remember that I worked every day since December 2, 2019 until this summer when I visited my relatives and took a few days off. That is 1,300+ days in a row. Well my hobbies are running (1,255 days in a row as of today...Forrest Gump was toast on June 5th)...and listening to audio books and traveling. My nickname was TravelinEdMan b4 the pandemic. And I now created a 365 day calendar with pictures of southern Indiana and my quotes on Leadership, Learning, and Life.

The Last Thing I Learned: How to use ChatPDF.

Alternative Universe Expertise: Of course, a rock and roll guitarist and singer and songwriter or a New Age musician like Kitaro or Yani. Or a calendar maker and poet. Or a New York Times bestselling author. I have lots of alternative personas for all these alternative worlds.

What I hope to learn in this class. Cool stuff during my visit to the American University of Cairo at the end of September to present to this class.

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Hometown: Schererville, IN

Current Occupation: Program Chair and Clinical Associate Professor at IU Northwest

What I do all day (at work): teaching, advising, and meetings.

Hobbies: Running, weight lifting

Last thing I learned: How to Research & Write Using Generative AI Tools from LinkedIn Learning at the same time I am learning to train our new puppy.

What I hope to learn in this course: I am an open book and just want to take it all in to improve my f2f and online teaching environments.

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Hometown: Hefei, Anhui Province, China

Current Location: IU, Bloomington

Current Occupation: Associate Professor, Director of English Teaching Department,

School of Foreign Languages of Hefei Normal University; Now a visiting scholar in IU

What I do all day (at work): teaching (blended teaching and teaching based on technologies), meetings, lectures, writing, and advising

What I do when I am not working: reading, listen to the music, watch movies, drink coffee\tea\wine, blogging, chatting online, take care of my daughter, doing housework

Hobbies: fitness, blogging, reading, watching movies, traveling, dancing, wine tasting

Last thing I learned: How to use Canvas and Padlet; Never say “I’m too busy” (Quoted from Professor Bonk’s suggestion)

What I hope to learn in this course: To read more academic papers, do more research and ultimately producing a paper relevant to AI based language teaching and learning; Learn more about how to design a creative syllabus for an online course and motivate students.

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Name: Yuhan Li (she/her/hers)

Hometown: Anhui, China

Current Location: Boston, MA

Current Occupation: Associate Director of Learning Design at Boston College

What I do all day (at work): too much time talking in meetings, and too little time thinking, planning and reflecting.

Hobbies: crafting and designing

Last thing I learned: how to make playdough for my kids

What I hope to learn in this course: 1) How to design effective online learning environments that foster student formation/whole-person education in the age of genAI 2) how to cultivate and maintain hybrid workplace learning environments that foster better outcomes and collaborations

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Name: Claudio Eduardo Pinto

Hometown: Arequipa, Peru

Current Location: Dallas, Texas

Current Occupation: Global Inclusion Office, Faculty member - Language Department, Coordinator - Mexico and Peru exchange programs, Jesuit Prep School of Dallas.

What I do all day: Design and facilitate initiatives for curriculum integration and programming in the Global Inclusion Office and Language department. Coordinate international trips and recruit students. Teach AP courses. Advising.

What I do when I'm not working: Read and drink a lot of coffee, travel, try new restaurants, and cook fusion food.

Alternative Universe Expertise:  If I were in an alternative universe, I would be a physician.

Last thing I learned: Populate Outlook calendars from Excel Sheets. Very useful when you have several school calendars.

What I hope to learn in this course: Read more academic papers, explore current educational approaches using technology, learn more from IST professionals, and learn how to design better courses using LMSs.

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Name: Michelle Gilbert

Hometown: none, I moved a lot! Chicago, NYC, Erie PA

Current Location: Cleveland Heights, OH

Current Occupation: Instructional technologist at an online holistic health institute for adult learners based in Vancouver, BC.

What I do all day: Bend a no-frills LMS to the stakeholders' wills, design student and team workflows or tutorials (all of which I enjoy tremendously), and liaise with SMEs and strategize on how to best deliver their content.

What I do when I'm not working: Drink the best coffee I can find, listen to jazz, restore a historic home, embrace my inner cat lady.

Alternative Universe Expertise:  I'd finish my American Sign Language interpreting degree or become a linguist.

What I hope to learn in this course: I'm 100% focused on adult e-learning. I want to know how to transform a static asynchronous and self-paced environment (no cohorts) into something more dynamic in order to prevent student attrition/frustration when they are thrown from "read and test" into a sudden in-person practicum - sustainably and efficiently. I want to know how the content we're covering in the weeks that are *not* focused on e-learning can also inform my decisions.

LinkedIn - connect with me

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Name: Ed Lewis

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA area

Current Location: Pflugerville, TX (Austin area)

Current Occupation: Product Manager at tech company. I am planning to move to educational services and training within the organization.

What I do all day: Right now, it is learning Jira to manage software development.

What I do when I am not working: Golf, weight-training, traveling and roller skating.

What I hope to learn in this course: Collaboration with classmates on the creative use of learning environments.

For more information about me, please look at profile in Canvas under People tab.

Ed

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Hi there, my name is Madi Stepherson. Looking forward to learning with and from you all this semester!

Hometown: Baltimore, MD

Current Location: Arlington, VA

Current Occupation: Knowledge Manager

What I do all day (at work): Write, research, present, facilitate, and design

Hobbies: Triathlon, hiking, traveling, reading

Last thing I learned: How to say a few words in French for a trip to Montreal!

What I hope to learn in this course: How to leverage my creativity to design engaging learning environments

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Name: Rachel Herman

Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri

Current location: Fort Washington, MD

Current occupation: Accreditation Staffer

Last thing I learned: Blistering tomatoes makes them more delicious.

What I hope to learn in this course: I want to learn to choose /design a learning environment that is sustainable and can also evolve with the needs of a cohort of learners.

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Hi! I am Luci Mello. I am originally from Brazil, but I am also proud of being a citizen of this beautiful nation (the USA). I live in Port Saint Lucie, FL. I graduated from the IU Instructional Systems Technology (Ed.D.) in 2021, and I am currently a practitioner in the corporate sector (HR Learning and Development).
Dr. Bonk has been my advisor and allowed me to be part of R11 this Fall. I look forward to having great discussions with you!

Luci

My Portfolio

Let's connect on LinkedIn

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Hometown: Macau
Current Location: Georgetown, IN
Current Occupation: College professor
Hobbies: Tai Chi, yoga, hiking, jogging
Last thing I learned: Adobe Express. I attended a workshop to get an overall idea, and then watch the recorded videos a couple times to follow the steps.
What do I hope to learn in this class? Use different strategies to design a learning environment.

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My name is Evan Ward and I currently reside in Washington D.C. as an Active-Duty Coast Guard (USCG) member. After serving in the USCG for 13 years, I was fortunate enough to be selected into a higher education program targeting human performance technology and related studies. I'm starting my first online semester at IU seeking a MSEd in IST. Professional follow-on assignments will include a position at either one of the USCG Training Centers, our Force Readiness Command conducting analysis of workforce performance gaps, or even possibly developing e-learning & instructional design. It’s all certainly exciting!

An interesting fact about me is that even though I am attending IU and pursuing a "secondary" career path within IST and the USCG. For the past 13 years my primary career specialty has been as an Afloat Officer, where I have served in numerous roles working at sea aboard USCG ships navigating through the Southern Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and the eastern U.S. enforcing federal laws and treaties.

Looking forward to meeting everyone and go Hoosiers!

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Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan
Current Location: Bloomington, IN

Current Occupation:

1. Teacher (16 years+)

2. Writer (2 books)

3. Researcher

VR co-creation

self-directed learning in communities

learning prediction)

What do you do all day:

TALK; talk to my students, talk to my son, and talk to myself (Welcome to talk to/chat with me; I really love interacting with people)

Read

Write

Walk (since arriving Bloomington lol)

When you are not scramming your brain in class, you are:
*writing, reading, cooking, doing housing chores, and exploring (Welcome to explore/ invite me to explore what's new in neighborhoods/the world together)
*(hope exercising could be added soon)

Last thing you learned:
Salsa dancing, and machine learning basics

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Full Name: Emily Killen

Hometown: Atlanta, GA

Current Location: Fort Worth, TX

Current Occupation: Instructional Technologist

Alternate Universe Expertise: If I were in an alternate universe, I would be a neurologist. I have learned bits and pieces about the brain as an educator and found it fascinating. I didn't choose this route because I don't handle the sight of blood well.

The last thing you learned: I learned that when you have an iPad opened to Safari and in guided access, students can still open another tab even if the address bar is greyed out. Students are always keeping us on our toes. :)

Favorite piece of educational technology:  This one is tough but if I have to choose one, it would have to be Nearpod because of the versatility. Nearpod is an interactive lesson platform that allows teachers to create engaging, interactive lessons as teacher-paced, student-paced, or both.

What you hope to learn while in this course: I hope to learn more about how to design learning environments that promote learning so that I can further support teachers and also improve my professional development.

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Hometown: Three Rivers, MI

Current Location: Vicksburg, MI

Current Occupation: College professor (small, rural community college): Southwestern Michigan College

Habits, Hobbies, Hangups and Have-to-Have:

Caffeine, exercise, timeliness, die hard sports mom

Fictional Academic:

Michelle Pfifer in Dangerous minds because art imitates life. I was a young underpaid professor who dealt with a diverse group of students, and I found a way to help them believe in themselves and encourage them to be successful. (Sidenote: I am a rule follower, so making up some of my questions, following another students’ lead, and still answering some of Beau’s here, feels like I am breaking them. I will add to my comments if I figure out my alternative universe.)

Last thing I learned/How I learn:

Padlet; I have never used it; I have heard good things and I am learning it exactly how I learn—by doing. In that spirit, sorry the pic is so big! So far, so good. I have one of those fun combo learning styles: visual, kinesthetic, and auditory. E-books, while I read along, and walk on the treadmill.

What do I hope to learn in this class?

To begin with, I am so excited to take a class with Dr. Bonk. He is my advisor and I have been waiting for this. Reading his course materials, I see some similarities to how I construct my courses. So, just learning through his style will be beneficial. One thing I really hope to learn is how to motivate my students to attend something synchronous. 😊

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Favorite Fictional Scholar:
Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. I've always loved how her strength is demonstrated through her intelligence!

Alternate Universe Expertise:
If were were in an alternate universe, I would be an artist. The reason I opted not to go down this route however is due to being colorblind.

The last thing you learned:
Today, I learned how to play Roblox! My 9 year old son has been trying to get me to play for a long time and I finally managed to sit down with him and play this afternoon!

Favorite piece of educational technology:
My favorite piece of educational technology is a tool called Miro. Miro is a wonderful, interactive white board that can be used to collaborate with teammates or students, engage with one another in a variety of ways and you can even use it as an exceptional presentation tool.

What you hope to learn while in this course:
One thing I've learned from taking Dr. Bonk's classes, is that you never know what you are going to learn. Even though I'm not actually taking the course, I'm just excited to interact with all of you and to hear all the amazing guest speakers Dr. Bonk has lined up for the semester!

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Hometown: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Current Location: Kyoto, Japan
Adjunct University Instructor for business English and digital literacies

Alternative Universe Expertise:

If I were in an alternative universe, I would be a Japanese Art Collector.

I did my undergrad in East Asia Studies with an emphasis on art. In my free time, I go to art museums, exhibitions, and galleries in Kyoto and in Osaka.

Favorite piece of educational technology: This might be an unpopular answer, but I like MS Teams. Even after the pandemic, I am still using it as a LMS for students and for my personal use (like parceling out this class’s readings). In February 2023, I signed an NDA to be part of a Microsoft focus group and cautiously await the full integration of AI into their existing and upcoming products.

Second, I teach architecture and comp sci majors and do VR projects using Frame - Immersive Meetings, Classes, Events (framevr.io) Frame is a VR platform for students to create amazing VR environments using 360 images, links, 3D objects, and audio. I am interested in exploring other platforms as well for student projects and for my dream of having a virtual reality art gallery.

Last thing I learned:

I started watching Ethan Mollick’s YouTube series called Practical AI for Instructors and Students: Introduction to AI for Teachers and Students. https://youtu.be/t9gmyvf7JYo

I had some hits-and-misses with an open tech policy last semester, so I am trying to find or design a learning module, so students and I are all on the same page.

One thing you hope to learn in the course:
I am excited to be part of a learning community with like-minded people and to deepen and question some of my ideas about learning environments.

(Last answer ChatGPT edited version) One thing you hope to learn in the course: Anticipation bubbles within me as I embark on this journey, for within this course, I aspire to cultivate a harmonious learning community brimming with kindred spirits. My goal is to delve deeper into the realm of learning environments, questioning and enriching the very foundations of my educational beliefs. This opportunity promises growth, collaboration, and the chance to refine my pedagogical approach in ways that will undoubtedly resonate with my innate passion for cultivating knowledge.