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This site is intended to be a resource for people with similar interests to my own and as an introduction to me for those who might want to work with me in one capacity or another.
I have devided the site into six interest areas:
- Second Life and Other Virtual Worlds
- Distance Education
- Open Source Applications
- Web 2.0 Applications
- Instructional Design
- Teaching First Year Experience Classes
These are all areas I am either currenty working in or am doing research in. I will be adding to this information as I find more or discover errors in what is posted already.
My Background
My current employer is Wright State University and also my only college level almamater. I have had a relationship with the university since 1977. The present phase began in 1999; currently my position is Promotionss and Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Music in the College of Liberal Arts.
I hold a B.F.A. in Art from the Department of Art and Art History awarded in 1987 and a Master of Humanities degree awarded in November of 2010. Currently, I am working on a Master of Arts in Computing and Technology in the College of Education and Human Services at Wright State; I want to become an instructional designer of distance education programs.
My work history is varied; positions I have held include:
- negative retoucher (This shows my age; there isn't even an enty in Wikipedia! I applied graphite to black and white negatives to help enhance the image - very primtive PhotoShoping.)
- Operations Specialist 2nd Class in the US Navy
- photo shoot fusser (Nothing in Wikipedia - I was surprissed. Someone who fusses over the details at a commercial photo shot to insure all of the details look good. I could tell you stories...!)
- bookkeeper
- office manager
- warehouse supervisor of an off-site, college bookstore warehouse
- college bookstore manager
- manager of a vibrational medicine manufacturing plant (yes, really)
- secretary (This is a more meaningful job title than administrative assistant; secretary just got a bad rap.)
- graphic designer/web administrator (I don't care for Webmaster; gender specific and kind of kinky sounding.)
- event planner
- technology coordinator (A catch-all job title for a computer generalist.)
And now, just about all of those things rolled into one! Except maybe the vibrational medicine thing.
As I mentioned above, I hold M.Hum. from Wright State; for my project I developed an Approaches to Women's Studies class (WMS 200) to be held entirely in Second Life, the 3D, virtual world. I believe that Second Life, or something like it, will be an important part of distance learning in the near future and I hope to be a part of it. Follow the Second Life link, on the left, and see my area of Wright State Island that is set up as a class area.