I'm delighted to begin my Ph.D. program in Educational Leadership and Technology (EDLI) at the University of Colorado at Denver in the Fall Semester of 2002. Students, colleagues, family and friends may want to know more about my work and research interests. This link will serve as my 'personal study guide', and I'm happy to share my professional development with you. I'll not only articulate my research focus and upload my annotated bibliography here, but also detail interests of the Faculty who'd be helping me with the research.
Professor Brent G. Wilson, Professor and Coordinator, Information and Learning Technologies, will be my advisor. You'll be fascinated, as I have been, with his papers and research interests over the past 25 years. Please click on Professor Wilson's link above, to study and reflect on areas that might interest you.
I outlined my research interests during a presentation in February 2002 at the Teachers-Teach-Teachers workshop. You may want to read the long Word version or the shorter Power Point version, available in the link above. There are numerous hyperlinks to interesting websites and articles. I've also added detailed annotations to technical words that may be found there. I'm sure as I plunge myself into the study, my interests will change gradually. A first iteration of my interests follows.
You can read a pdf version of my goals, philosophy, and reflection working paper (December 2002) by clicking on: Smart Education: Blending Subject Matter with the Concept of Career Development for Effective Classroom Management. I will be happy to read your critique or feedback on this paper. Thanks much in advance.
What is a portfolio?
You might have heard about an art of financial portfolio, or a minister's function or even carried your papers in a flexible carry-case. The word 'portfolio' as you might have guessed has Latin roots. The doctoral portfolio is something I'm going to carry with me through the program. To quote from page 8, EDLI Doctoral Degree Student Handbook (Revised 01/15/02), "A portfolio is a selective collection of work and reflection gathered across diverse settings over time, framed by topic foci and refined by professional and peer interaction. The purpose of the portfolio is to promote and represent the student's command of content, research, and leadership knowledge and skills leading toward independent scholarly work on complex problems of educational practice"...
What role does the portfolio play?
To quote from pp. 9-10, "The portfolio provides the focal point for interactions with your committee about your progress toward independent scholarly work. The products in your portfolio should directly reflect your professional growth and development in each of the main domains. (Core knowledge, Interpretation and Synthesis, Disciplined Inquiry, Professional and Scholarly Leadership). The portfolio and its products are not the ultimate point of the program of study. Rather, it represents the learning and growth that occur as a result of developing the products included in the portfolio".
Taking the cue from p. 10, "We encourage you to find ways to publish and disseminate your portfolio products as they meet a high standard of quality. You may wish to place materials on a website to allow convenient access by your committee and other students and professionals. Other students and faculty will find your work to be of value as they work on related problems".
Leadership and Innovation in Education
The Doctoral Portfolio
Doctoral Pro Seminar
Required Texts for Leadership
Required Text for Innovation
Recommended Texts for Leadership
Recommended Texts for Innovation
Papers
My Annotated doctoral Bibliography
Leadership Plan