Ocotillo Textbook & Technology Day 2005
September 16, 2005, 8:00am - 4:00pm, Mesa Community College
Text & Tech Authors
Rick Effland (author for Kendall/Hunt)
Richard Effland was a co-founder of Archaeological Consulting Services Ltd. and served as its first president for eleven years prior to joining the faculty at Mesa Community College in 1989. He is recognized as a leader in the use of instructional technology within the Maricopa District over the past 16 years. He teaches a variety of courses in Anthropology but focuses on Buried Cities and Lost Tribes (both Old World and New World versions of this popular course) and Bones, Stones and Human Evolution.
Brad Franklin (author for Wiley)
Brad taught calculus, college algebra and teacher's math for 10 years while working toward his doctorate in stochastic differential equations. It was Brad's work from 1998 to 2000 with an NSF grant on the use of web-quizzing to foster student success in "mathematics across the curriculum" that first exposed Brad to eGrade, and revealed to him the potential of web-based instruction. Seeking to contribute in this field, he worked from 2000-2003 at UNL in the design and development of a wide range of web-based distance learning projects for programs at the high school, college, and doctoral levels, as well as commercial training and public service programs.
As a mentor in the Wiley Faculty Network from 2001-2003, Brad worked with and led virtual presentations for faculty nationwide on the effective use of learning technologies, including eGrade. This experience convinced Brad of the value of peer-to-peer networks as a resource for faculty employing new learning technologies, and in 2003 he joined John Wiley & Sons to work full-time with the Wiley Faculty Network. As part of this team, Brad aids in the development of the network, and manages the network website at www.WhereFacultyConnect.com. Brad also continues to serve as a faculty mentor by training and supporting faculty who use Wiley's flagship online learning product, Wiley PLUS.
Dr. Hult is Professor of English at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, where she has been teaching and working as an administrator for the past twenty years. Before coming to USU, she was the director of writing at Texas Tech University. Currently, she serves as the Associate Dean in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Prior to that appointment, she served for ten years as Associate Department Head in the English Department.
She teaches in the writing, honors, and English education programs, including an online graduate course in online pedagogy. Professor Hult's research interests include computers in the writing classroom, research writing, program and teacher assessment, and women in academia. She has published 12 books, 12 chapters in edited collections, and over 30 articles in various composition journals including WPA, Computers and Composition, the Journal of Advanced Composition, The Writing Instructor, and Liberal Education.
She served as the Principle Investigator for several grants which supported the design of an online version of English 1010 and English 2010 and the development of a teacher education program focusing on computers in the writing classroom. She has authored or co-authored several very successful writing textbooks: The New Century Handbook, 3ed and The Brief New Century Handbook, 3ed (Longman 2005, with Thomas Huckin), Researching and Writing Across the Curriculum, 3ed (Longman, 2005), three writing in the disciplines textbooks (Longman 1996), A Writer's Introduction to Word Processing (Wadsworth, 1987), and Readings from Across the Curriculum (Longman 1997).
After teaching English and language
arts in public schools for 9 years, Fred Kemp received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric
and Composition, with an emphasis in Computer-Based Rhetoric, at the University
of Texas at Austin in 1988, where he was instrumental in founding and directing
UT's Computer
Writing Research Lab. Dr. Kemp is currently a member of the NCTE
Instructional Technology Committee and is a past chair and current member
of the CCCC Computers in
Composition Committee. He is co-director of the Alliance for Computers and Writing,
for whom he manages a set of World Wide Web Pages.
Fred is also founder and
current president of The Daedalus Group, Inc,
a company prominent in the development of educational software, and is
co-author of DIWE, the "Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment"
(1990 EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL award winner for best writing software). The Internet
email discussion lists he has founded include Megabyte University (MBU-L), ACW-L, and WCENTER. He has written and
presented extensively about computer-based writing pedagogies.
Kendall has been teaching since 1988 at a number of institutions, including Villanova University, DeSales University, Arcadia University, Ursinus College, County College of Morris, and Montgomery County Community College, at both the undergraduate and master's degree level.
Kendall's education includes a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She has industrial experience in research and development environments (AT&T Bell Laboratories) as well as experience with several start-up technology firms. She is a co-author on a textbook for the introductory computer concepts market, Technology in Action.
Mike Palmquist is a Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he directs the composition program and co-directs the Center for Research on Writing and Communication Technologies. His scholarly interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and the use of hypertext/hypermedia in instructional settings.
His work has appeared in journals including Computers and Composition, Written Communication, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Engineering Education, Kairos, Council of College Teachers of English Studies, and Social Forces, as well as in edited collections. He coordinates the development of Writing@CSU, the University's Online Writing Center and is the founding editor of Academic.Writing, a refereed journal focusing on interdisciplinary perspectives on communication across the curriculum. He also coordinates the Online Writing Center Consortium.
He is the co-author, with Kate Kiefer, Jake Hartvigsen, and Barbara Godlew, of Transitions: Teaching Writing in Computer-Supported and Traditional Classrooms, published in 1998 by Ablex, and co-author, with Don Zimmerman, of Writing with a Computer, published in 1999 by Allyn and Bacon. He is the author of The Bedford Researcher, a research-writing handbook published in August 2002, with a second edition to be published in December 2005. Other Bedford/St. Martin's books include Writing by Design, and a forthcoming brief rhetoric. In addition to Bedford/St. Martin's books, he has been active in the design of software and associated WWW sites, both for the books and as a general resource for Bedford/St. Martin's, he has also authored The Bedford Research Room WWW site.
Dr. Randall VanderMey is a full professor of English at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA, where he teaches composition, creative writing, theory, British literature, classical mythology, Dante, and world visionary literature. He has also taught at Iowa State University, Dordt College, and the University of Iowa. He is the lead author of Houghton Mifflin's groundbreaking first-edition rhetoric, The College Writer, and, with other members of a writing team, is bringing several new textbook projects toward completion.
George Woodbury has been teaching mathematics at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA since 1994. He served as the division chair of the Math/Engineering division from 1999-2004 at College of Sequoias. He has been honored as an instructor by students as well as by his colleagues. He earned a bachelor's degree in math from UC Santa Barbara in 1990 and a master's degree in math from California State University, Northridge in 1994.
In addition to teaching, he is the author of an elementary and intermediate algebra book to be published in 2005 as well as an introductory statistics textbook that was published in 2002. George has been teaching an online/telecourse version of Introductory Statistics since 1998, and also teaches elementary and intermediate algebra online.
