Commencement

commencement [n]: the ceremony of conferring degrees or granting diplomas at the end of the academic year

The day I have been waiting for finally came after 2 years of waiting and working hard to earn my Masters in Curriculum & Instruction with Educational Technology.

I have gained so much knowledge during my additional two years at Winthrop, but it was not just the knowledge but also my growth as a professional educator.

Graduation day was Thursday, May 6, 2010, and flew by just like these past two years have. John came to support me as well as my family.

The Macfeat Ladies (Amber, Brittany, Me, and Mary) before we took the plung and graduated :)

In addition, this has been a busy week with graduation, visiting with family, and traveling home for John's graduation from Augusta State University. John attended Augusta State University the past year and a half to obtain his Masters of Arts in Teaching with a concentration in History. His commencement exercises were on Saturday at the James Brown Arena.

Now, we are both done with our Masters Degrees and eagerly searching, awaiting, and praying hard for God to help us finally get to put to practice what we have learned via having teaching jobs.

With 3 weeks left at Winthrop, it is kind of bittersweet. I will definitely miss my memories I have made as well as the memories Winthrop have left for me.

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" - Nelson Mandela

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." - William Arthur Ward

Masters Graduates of Augusta State University & Winthrop University - Class of 2010

Blooper

Done...Done....Done

With only less than a week away, graduation is quickly approaching. The wedding was a blast this past weekend (will post my photos soon). We managed to turn a 7 hour drive into a 9 hour drive with stopping, traffic, my obsessive need to go to the gap outlet (in darien, ga), etc.

We also met up with our friend's The Coopers (Erin's father-in-law, Derek's dad) in St. Petes and went to the Tampa Rays game & to a really cool bar before and after the game called Ferg's Sport Bar and Grill.

Knocked out two presentations and a reflection paper this week and after Wednesday night, I was officially done with my relationship with Winthrop University. These past 6 years have been great Winthrop, but it's time for me to move on, and kind of make a real pay check :)

This weekend I am going to Columbia to the Carrie Underwood concert with my friend Trish! I cannot wait!!!

More Later.....

I Feel Smart...

So while doing this whole grad school thing for a while, I have done alot of papers, projects, etc; you catch the drift. Well one of my projects last fall was to write a White Paper. According to Wikipedia, a White Paper is an authoritative report or guide that often addresses issues and how to solve them. White papers are used to educate readers and help people make decisions. I chose to write a white paper on iPods and their use in an educational setting. Dr. Jones has our papers online and made each of us put a blurb about copyright. Over the past 6 months, I have had 2 people request to use my information and also cite me in their paper. Cite Me? What?!?! Whoever would of thought when doing APA citation for papers number of times, that someone would in return mention my name.....

For this assignment not only did we have to write a white paper but we had a share fair for teachers, principals, school officials to come and see what we had to offer to technology and education.

So we were supposed to make a poster, and of course I cant do anything just normal....instead I made a life size iPod as my poster.