Tony Lockhart - Instructional Design & Technology

 This is the final blog post for the 4300 class in the MA in Ed Tech program at CSULA. When thinking about the class and my performance this semester, I feel proud of the quality of artifacts created to show my learning. I feel that it is fitting that the last assignment is a portfolio site populated with projects, a resume, teaching philosophy, and other resources to improve the design of the site. Here's a link to my site: https://sites.google.com/view/lockhart4300portoflio/home Some highlights embedded in the site include various Adobe Spark videos, a simple blog style layout, my resume, and teaching philosophy. Projects that I have included are the lesson plan, explainer video on Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, the infographic, and the data collection assignment. I feel that this was a good selection of work given that there is a strong emphasis on design, technology, and detail-oriented structure. Before ending this post, I am proud of the diligence and hard work that I displayed this te...

 In the second installment of the computational thinking project, we learned about binary coding. By using a special alphabet, we translated our favorite color using a different alphabet focusing on a base 8 set of open/close sets. The combinations were substituted with 1's and 0's as a way to connect computer language.  My favorite color is blue, and here is the binary coding with the special alphabet: 10111101 10110011 10101010 10111010 Students had a collaborative assignment having to do with data entry. At the time I pulled information, 13 students had reported information to the document. Here is some data: As of Sunday, 5/3/21, only 13 students populated the collaborative sheet so the data I am reporting on will differ from peers. There are currently 3/13 students who selected blue (23%). None of the students selected colors starting with the letter T. The same goes with students selecting school spirit colors. The top three colors include blue (3/13 students accounting ...