Yay us!
The Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Program, at Michigan State University won the 2013 Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology awarded by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE).
http://aacte.org/news-room/press-releases/aacte-honors-michigan-state-university-with-innovative-use-of-technology-award.html

The Task: Students in the new hybrid phd program were given a rather ill-defined task. In order to better learn about behaviorism, they were first given a weekend to individually come up with script ideas to “sell behaviorism” as a commercial (1 minute or less). In class, they worked in groups of 3 for just 3 hours to come up with one joint script, shoot the video, and edit it. The results of these videos were posted on youTube and can be seen below:
The Thinking: After showing the videos, we …

Based upon the comedy stylings of despair.com, students in the 2010 summer, on-campus cohort of the MAET program used their understanding of the motivational literature to make some “De-Motivataional Posters.”
Some good stuff! (Click on the image below to view their work)

Students in the hybrid phd program made an informative, if humorous, video about the need to have an “elevator pitch” for your research interests.

The Task: Students in the new hybrid phd program were given a rather ill-defined task. In order to better learn about behaviorism, they were first given a weekend to individually come up with script ideas to “sell behaviorism” as a commercial (1 minute or less). In class on Monday, they were assigned to groups of 3 or 4, and given just 3 hours to come up with one joint script, shoot the video, and edit it. The results of three of the four were posted on youTube and can be …