Douglas+Haman

Hello All! I'm Doug Haman. Can you find me in this picture?



... unless you've seen me in class, probably not! (Hint: I'm the guy lying down in front of everyone else.)

This was me my senior year of high school. I was big into theater. So much so, I still work in my high school theater, now as an adult mentor. I posted this picture for two reasons:

(1) I HATE pictures of myself. I do I do I do. So I avoid having them taken whenever possible, and therefore don't have many handy to share.

(2) I had such good times as a student in high school, in no small part due to the warm, supporting environment my teachers created - the kind I think students deserve and the kind I want to create in my classroom. I think this photo is emblematic of that.

**So, who am I now? Well I'll tell you!**

I'm a 40 year old grad student who can't seem to decide what he wants to be when he grows up. I had no less than 4 different majors as an undergraduate, finally settling on business. Not content with that as a career, I went to law school and obtained my first graduate degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1998.

Even after beginning to practice law, I still worked with students - I tutored elementary students, did theater with high school students, and served as an adviser to college students. Eventually, I decided to throw in the towel and get my education degree, so here I am today.

**My Hope for this Class**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Very simple answer here: to learn stuff.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">My Fear for this Class **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Also very simple: that I won't learn stuff. Unfortunately, my experience with UC has been that some classes are pretty hit-or-miss, and <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">some instructors have seemed to confuse giving students lots of busy work with them learning things. I hope this class does not.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A Pictorial Description of what Educational Technology Means to Me **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Here it is:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Oftentimes in graduate school, students are asked questions where there is an assumed response. Here, the question assumes that <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">educational technology does mean something to me. It really doesn't. If anything, sometimes educational technology gets in the way of <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">learning instead of enhancing it. Though we convince ourselves that educational technology is somehow always this great tool ("kids are <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">really engaged by ___!"), I think the truth is that sometimes low-tech or no-tech is the best way to go.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The challenge of the instructor in this course is to demonstrate techniques using educational technology that are not employed for the <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">sake of using technology, but rather actually enhance the learning experience.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A Recommended Blog **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">I'm not a huge fan or user of blogs, but since identifying one is a requirement of this course, I found one I do rather like because it aggregates much of the same information I have or would have already found on my own into one place, and establishes that I am not the only government geek out there. []


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">My Blog **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">My blog for this course can be found here: []