Classroom-based Space Flight Simulator Best in Show Award by ISLT Doctoral Student

Florida State University Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies (ISLT) doctoral student, Peter Carafano, won Best in Show for Innovation for his space flight simulator at DIGITECH for his Classroom-based Space Flight Simulator.

 

Peter Carafano

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2018 Alumni-Student Knowledge exchange (ASKe) Awards Banquet

Thursday, April 19th and Friday, April 20th, the Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies (ISLT) program at Florida State University (FSU) hosted the 2018 Alumni-Student Knowledge exchange (ASKe).

This is the event of the year that faculty, staff, students, and alumni all look forward to each year. It allows both Master's and Doctoral students to connect with alumni and learn from one another. This is one of the many features that makes the ISLT program so unique.

Thursday evening, students, alumni, and faculty met at the FSU Alumni Center for some hors d'oeuvres, drinks, socializing, and an awards ceremony.

Gagne Briggs Outstanding Doctoral Student Award 

Finalists

Taehyeong Lim

Yasin Yalcin

Weinan Zhao

Winner

Yasin Yalcin

Liliana Muhlman Masoner Outstanding International Student Award 

Finalists

Taehyeong Lim

Jewoong Moon

SeyedAhmad Rahimi

Winner

Taehyeong Lim

Gagne Briggs Outstanding Masters Student Award 

Finalists

Curt Fulwider

Jeffrey Phillips

Brandon Schumann

Rebecca Simms

Winner

Jeffrey Phillips

Gagne Briggs Outstanding Distance Student Award 

Finalists

Trisha Bennett

David Servello

Winner

Trisha Bennett

Gagne Briggs Outstanding Student Service Award 

Winner

Zhichun Liu

Ruby Diamond Future Professor Award 

Finalists

Hajeen Choi

Jewoong Moon

SeyedAhmad Rahimi

Ginny Smith

Winners

SeyedAhmad Rahimi

Ginny Smith

Article Published by Dr. Klein

Applying the First Principles of Instruction in a short-term, high volume, rapid production of online professional development modules

Journal: Journal of Computing in Higher Education

Citation: Klein, J.D. & Mendenhall, A. J Comput High Educ (2018) 30: 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-017-9166-9

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Article Published by Dr. Dennen and Jiyae Bong

Cross-cultural Dialogues in an Open Online Course: Navigating National and Organizational Cultural Differences

Journal: TechTrends

Citation: Dennen, V.P. & Bong, J. TechTrends (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-018-0276-7

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FSU Moves Up In Best Graduate Schools

Exciting news for Florida State University's graduate programs!!! FSU's College of Education Graduate schools move up 6 spots from No. 46 to No. 35 nationally among public universities.

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A Day in the life of ISLT Student, Ray

Whether you are a faculty member, a new student, or a prospective student, you may be curious what a typical day is like in the life of a full-time PhD student in the Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies (ISLT) program at Florida State University (FSU). 

Ray offered to allow us to follow her around campus one day and capture a typical day in her life on campus. Ray moved here from China and started her doctoral program in the Fall of 2013. She hopes to complete her doctoral studies and dissertation by the Spring of 2019 and hopes she can stay in the US and become a professor at a University or Community College. 

Ray just successfully defended her prospectus. The prospectus is the first three chapters of the dissertation which include the introduction, the literature review, and the methods section. Now she needs to collect the data, analyze the data, then write the result, discussion, and conclusion sections, as well as defend her dissertation.  

Each day, Ray wakes up and heads into her office area on campus to work on her dissertation. She always starts off the morning with breakfast and tea. 

You will usually find Ray reading articles found online for her dissertation or hardback cover books for classes she is currently taking.

After some time, Ray usually has the urge to get out and take a walk. She stresses the importance of  taking time away from her studies to stop and smell the roses 

She gathered some great ideas to continue working on her dissertation while thinking on her walk, so she headed back to the Stone Building, where the College of Education and the Instructional Systems Technology program is located, to continue typing away for a few hours. 

For lunch she went to the Seminole Cafe right around the corner from her building. 

 

She then decided to keep reading her book for a class she had the next day. She walked around outdoors until she found a nice bench in the sun to sit down and continue her book. 

 

After lunch and catching some rays, she went back to her desk again to continue working on her dissertation. 

She came to a road block and needed to step outside and listen to some music. Her favorite song is "Losing My Mind" by Charlie Puth, hence what she was listening to at the time of this picture.

 

As she got on the elevator to head back to her desk, she noticed a flyer in the elevator advertisting for an event the next weekend. She explains that there are always events going on around campus and lots of things to keep you active if you would like. 

 

After several more hours of working at her desk, it was time to get out again. She decided to sit outside in the sun for a few minutes to make a phone call then she headed to the gym for a swim where she ended her day on campus. 

2018 ASKe Agenda

Below is the agenda for the 2018 Alumni Student Knowledge Exchange (ASKe) conference. The event will be held in the Stone Building at Florida State University at the College of Education starting Thursday evening 4/19/18 and running throughout the day Friday 4/20/18.

Hope to see you there!

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CORE’s 2018 Marvalene Hughes Research in Education Conference

Instructional Systems and Learning Technology (ISLT) Presenters

The 2018 Marvalene Hughes Council on Research in Education (CORE) was hosted at the Florida State University College of Education on Friday, April 23, 2018. The following are some of the conference presenters from the Instructional Systems and Learning Technology (ISLT) program.

For more information on the Council on Research in Education (CORE), visit: https://education.fsu.edu/research/core

Peter Carafano
Modeling Group Problem Solving Using a Classroom Based Space Flight Simulator

James Klein
Informal Learning in the Workplace: A Study of Instructional Design Professionals

Dr. James Klein pictured with Dr. Stacey Rutledge after the presentation

Logan Arrington
When is "Productive Failure" Most Productive? A Meta-analysis

Jiyae Bong
Featured Student Profiles: An Instructional Blogging Strategy to Enhance Student's Peer Awareness and Interaction in a Blog-integrated Blended Classroom

Hajeen Choi
A Review of Computer-mediated Collaborative Writing for L2 Students

Fabrizio Fornara
Developing Students' Intercultural Awareness of Products, Practices, and Perspectives through Instagram

Xi Lu
Evaluating Instructional Strategies in Second Life: Implications for Design

Jewoong Moon
Virtual-reality Based Role-playing and Design on Social Interaction Skills Development of Children with High-functioning Autism

Seyedahmad Rahimi

The Effectiveness of Digital Games on Problem-solving Skills in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Meta-analysis

Jenay Sermon
Black Males Using Cultural Wealth as Metacognitive Success Strategies in Community Colleges: A Case Study

Elementary School Teacher to Professor of Instructional Systems

Florida State Universtiy Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies (ISLT) professor Dr. James Klein, went from being an elementary school teacher to a professor of instructional systems. In this YouTube video interview by AECT, watch and learn about the doors that opened leading Dr. Klein down the path to were he is today.

A Day in the Life of ISLT Professor, Dr. Vanessa Dennen

A day in the life of an ISLT professor.

What does a professor do all day? Especially when it’s not a teaching day? Here’s a glimpse at how Dr. Vanessa Dennen spent Monday, March 26.

I am lost without my morning tea. It helps me do my best!

My work day started at 8 am, when I woke up. I spent 15 minutes checking in with email and double-checking that everything for my online class successfully opened up to my students overnight. Then it was time to get my first hit of caffeine brewing – earl grey tea with local honey – and get the kid off to school. By 8:45 I was drinking my tea out of one of my favorite mugs, and checking out my to do list for the day.

Butter and candy ... a 9 year old's dream?

I spent the bulk of the morning working through some data and creating tables, and then realized that I needed to finish preparing slides for a Webinar. In the midst of my work I discovered the grocery list my daughter had sent to my printer. Needless to say, I do not plan to shop from this list.

Ready for webinar!

Before I knew it, it was 12:40 and I had 20 minutes to get situated for the Webinar. I cleared my desk, discovered that my desktop computer wanted to restart, and quickly substituted my laptop.

The Webinar was recorded -- a full hour of my day documented!

Feel free to watch. 

I worked with Dr. Tami I'm on this study and we're finalizing a manuscript to send out for publication.

 

Lunch, aka leftovers converted into a salad. It was yummy.

When the webinar ended at 2, I assembled lunch. A great perk of working at home on Mondays is that I get to eat lunch with my husband, who is also a professor and who also works from home on Mondays. We don’t see each other most of the day, because he works in the apartment in our back yard while I work in a little office nook off the kitchen (or in the dining room, or in the living room).

Getting some fresh air while talking ISLT business. 

And ... back at the computer again while we finish the call.

After lunch I had a call to return. Dr. Klein! I started the call outside on my screened porch – after being inside on the computer all morning I wanted some fresh air – but then I had to look something up and ended up inside on the computer again as we finished our call.

Spinster? Really? That term is still in use?

Once we ended the call I started to catch up on email again and work on some visa paperwork for an upcoming conference trip to Hong Kong.

Working hard? or hardly working?

On a typical Monday, I would head to campus by 3:15 for the Graduate Policy Council meeting, but this week it was canceled. Lucky me! I got some extra time to work. I had some administrative tasks to take care of, checked in with my online class (it gets relatively little action on Mondays), and then grabbed another cup of tea while I triaged my to do list. I feel like the afternoon just evaporated, which happens sometimes when I do a lot of smaller tasks. As you can see, my co-PI wasn’t being very helpful today, either.

When I next looked up, it was 5:15 and time to head out the door for Pilates. I find that it’s really important for me to have some interests outside of work, and to make sure I get out and stretch. One of the things I like about my Pilates class is that I’m a student, and I’m not in charge. I’m happy to listen, follow directions, and learn new things.

When I returned home, it was time to focus on being a learner in another context. This year I started taking viola lessons, and I had to practice. As a beginner, I only practice for about 10 minutes at a time. I get tired quickly, and discouraged easily. Tonight I sounded so scratchy, and felt like I couldn't remember the new bowing technique my instructor taught me next week. Being a novice and having much to learn in this context helps me remember that my own students may also get tired and frustrated.

I love having a garden. I visit my garden when I feel stressed. Or when I need fresh herbs.

Next, I took a trip to the garden, grabbed some rosemary for dinner, and proceeded to cook while watching a show on Amazon Prime.

Manuscripts. So many manuscripts.

 After dinner was over and cleaned up, it was around 9 pm. I’d taken almost 4 hours of a break from work, and it was time to get back to work. The evening’s work? Editor stuff. Several new submissions accrued over the weekend, and I started going through them.

 Sleepy time tea, updating the bullet journal, and then off to sleep.

 The day ended, and I felt like I’d accomplished relatively little. Looking at all of the items crossed off in my bullet journal, I see that I did quite a lot – it was a jam-packed day, even if I did mostly sit at home on the computer.