Master's Degree

I graduated from Lamar University in Dec 2025 with my master's degree in Applied Digital Learning. The biggest requirement of the master's degree was to create an ePortfolio, which is a big section of my website (this website). To get an overview of the degree plan click here.

I started the master's program in the summer of 2024. It was only supposed to take a year but that required you to take (2) 3 hour classes every 8 weeks (so 6 hours of classes on top of my normal teaching responsibilities). Knowing myself, I decided to stretch out the program to a year 1/2. Therefore I would only be taking (1) 3 hour class every 8 weeks during the school year and (2) 3 hour classes every 8 weeks during the summer, when I could focus on the classes.

Now this seemed like less stress but it meant that I would start the program with a group of classmates and end the program with a different group of classmates. The main thing this did was make me not know the people I graduated with and I was constantly looking for group members (because many of the assignment required you to be in a group). It also meant that at graduation they had a "Meet & Greet" which I didn't find out about so I missed that event and I was only able to see my professors and fellow classmates was during the few hours of the graduation ceremony.

About the ePortfolio I mentioned was to document and a big part of everything done in each class, I already had a basic personal ePortfolio. So I had to decide to somehow merge the two or create a whole new website. After much discussion with family (my father-in-law) and different professors, I decided to merge the two (personal/educational) into one ePortfoilo.

Now, after graduation, I am trying to decide how to best persue making the most of this new achievement.