TO: Mr. Dennis Larney FROM: Paul Okoye DATE: December 29, 2015 RE: ECTS 519, Winter 2015, Competency Verification Please accept this memo as verification of competency for ECTS 519 based on previous work and scholastic experience. I have 3-5 years experience in Class-Room teaching and After-School tutoring respectively. I currently teach Engineering classes (Engineering Essentials, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering), which focuses on exposing students to the varied arms of engineering, as well as the varied skills required to be successful in the different engineering professions captured in the courses. Previously, I worked as an Architect/ Project Manager, in the construction industry, during which time I mostly utilized the computer for drawing houses. I however, once in a while, used other computer programs for other some office related purposes, such as writing letters with MS Words, make presentations with Power Point and Photoshop, tabulate and check data using Excel spreadsheet. and also communicate through e-mails with Internet Explorer. In the Spring 2015 quarter I completed both the ECTS 501 and ECTS 518, with a grade of "A". Attached is my resume, which includes my job description, my report for ECTS 501 and 518, as well as the course description for ECTS 518 (and ECTS 501) from the 2015/2016 CSUSB course Syllabus/ Catalog to serve as verification. I have also included several letters of recommendation from previous employers, describing my exemplary work. . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Based on the above documents, I offer the following descriptions to serve as a verification of the specific ECTS 519 competencies. 1. Establish a blog, using free sites of my choice. 2. Develop a lesson plan for a course I teach. 3. Use a digital camera to take a self-portrait photograph. Crop and reduce the size of same photo. 4. Graphic skills applied to develop a Power Point presentation, integrating interactive pedagogical or andragogical appropriate strategies for English Learners. 5. More advanced capabilities addressed respective to the computer literacy, posting slide shows and lesson plans on my blog (as attachments/links), with a memo describing how English Learners and Pedagogical or andragogical strategies were implemented. Competencies 2 and 4 were met via the final exam foe ECTS 518 in which I was required to develop lesson plans, as well as, prepare a 'Media Presentation' which entailed developing an instructional slide show using power point. Competencies 1, 3 and 5 have been met in my years of teaching and preparing teaching tools and learning plans for my students. For competency 1, listed below are blogs I established, the first being a 'Weebly' site in which I set up a blog site to which students who missed a class could go to get updated on pending assignments to be turned in when they do return to class. The second is a google blog I recently set up for practice in using the google blogger tool. http://springs-okoye.weebly.com/ pokoye.blogspot.com Regarding competency 3, in some of my assignments for both ECTS 501 and ECTS 518 (particularly in my 'Data Sheet and School Site Documents') and in my Weebly site account, I cropped and reduced the size of my self portrait photo, which I incorporated in the assignment sheets, and my Weebly site (in the 'About- Teacher/ Course'). Finally, competency 5 was met by a mix of my ECTS 501/ 518, my blog (web-sites) where I prepared course information and posted same on the internet, as well as in ECTS 504 where in most of my assignments I sought to understand what strategies would be most beneficial to English Learners, as well as pedagogical or andragogical learners. Although I have opted for the Competency Verification Option for ECTS 519, my personal development in the use of technology will be ongoing. I hope to acquire further skills (such as audio and video capture) to add to my Web site and slide show presentations. I also aspire to becoming more proficient in digital photography manipulation in Photoshop. 9 Attachments