April 24, 2008
That’s right, I successfully completed my public presentation and defended my portfolio for my Ed.M. in College Student Services Administration (CSSA) through the College of Education’s Adult Education and Higher Education Leadership program. The paperwork indicating completion of my program has been submitted to the Graduate School and I will attend the College of Education [...]
April 15, 2008
Hello, I am pleased to say that the blog is now in a final draft state. I have added a new color to the legend on the right. Green text indicates my response to a committee member comment on sections of the competencies. Feel free to continue to leave comments on each of the competency [...]
April 11, 2008
Melissa has finished her review of my portfolio. Her comments are openly available to view at the bottom of each competency page. I will add some additional content to the competencies in response to her comments very soon. Look here for a message indicating that I am done adding new content. Thanks again! Paul
March 28, 2008
That’s right, the first draft is completed and ready to be submitted to my advisor. Feel free to have a look through the pages to see the huge amount of content that has been added. I added a text color legend on the right sidebar because I think I will leave the notes in red [...]
March 20, 2008
The content is coming – full steam ahead! I am adding as much as I can this week. Next week I am off work for spring break to focus my attention on portfolio completion. Now that all of my CSSA classroom work is done, I can really give this project some special lovin’! In the [...]
February 5, 2008
Now when you look at each of the pages you will see RED and BLUE text. RED = My notes, thinking process, questions – INCOMPLETE BLUE = My final reflections – COMPLETED PRODUCT Thanks
January 31, 2008
It’s official. I will defend on Wednesday, April 23rd in ED Hall 107. The public presentation is from 1:00-1:30pm. Then I will have tea and crumpets privately with my committee from 1:30-3:00pm (sorry, private party). If you are here to look at what I have done so far, you will only find reflections on competencies [...]
January 14, 2008
Have a look at the pages for competencies 5, 6, 7, and 8. You will see that I have started to fill in the sections with text about what I have learned. I have stopped writing for the time being as I await feedback from my committee. Thanks!
December 21, 2007
This week I added just about every assignment that I have done in the CSSA program to the competency pages. The main projects and assignments are indicated as “Document:” or “Link:” – additional materials that I scanned are indicated by a thumbnail of the scanned image. This makes it easy to tell which documents already [...]
December 10, 2007
Today I am going through each of the competencies and making notes on applicable courses and asking questions of myself as they arise. Filling the pages with content requires me to first have a thorough understanding of each of the competencies. While I have been aware of them throughout my time as a CSSA student, [...]