Ocotillo Textbook & Technology Day 2005
September 16, 2005, 8:00am - 4:00pm, Mesa Community College
Text & Tech Discussion Faciliators
The following faculty members will be helping facilitate the topicsl breakout sessions in the morning and afternoon sessions
John Arle
Facilitator for Science & Math Editors & Authors Discussion (morning sessions)
John is serving his 2nd year as Faculty in Residence at the MCLI assigned to Chair the Ocotillo group. Currently a residential biology faculty at Phoenix College, as a thirty year teaching veteran, John has taught nearly all BIO courses offered through the community college system and served for 15 years as the Sciences Faculty Chair at Rio Salado College. Over the past decade he has pioneered online instruction for lab sciences. His current work with anatomy & physiology has brought national attention and resulted in a faculty consultant position with John Wiley & Sons publishing. Within recent years, John successfully experimented with hybridizing his Environmental Biology class resulting in dramatically increased successful completion rates. He is also a current co-chair for the Curriculum and Instruction Committee within the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society.
Susan K. Miller
Facilitator for Humanities & Social Sciences Editors & Authors Discussion (morning sessions)
Susan K. Miller is a faculty member at Mesa Community College in Arizona, where she teaches writing, linguistics and ESL. She has published articles in Composition Studies, Computers and Composition, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and various edited collections. She is also a co-editor of NCTE's Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition (with Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, and Eric Waggoner) and WPA: Writing Program Administration, the journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.
Greg Pratt
Facilitator for Business, Economics & Computer Science Editors & Authors Discussion (morning sessions)
Greg Pratt, an economics instructor at Mesa Community College has been involved in campus, district and discipline specific activities designed to increase active involvement in learning environments. Pratt teaches macro and micro economics in the traditional, hybrid and online formats at MCC and works with his colleagues to explore the efficacy of instructional technology on student outcomes. In addition to his participation with the MCC Distance Learning Committee, WebCt Users Group and TLTR, Pratt is active in the Arizona Council on Economic Education, National Council on Economic Education, and National Council for the Social Studies.
Laura Stock
Facilitator for Course Management Systems & Content Delivery Discussion Group (afternoon sessions)
Laura is the Coordinator for Employee & Organizational Learning in the Center for Teaching & Learning at Mesa Community College. She is responsible for coordinating MCC's employee development and training opportunities. She is also adjunct faculty in the English department. Prior to this, Laura worked in Technology Training Services at the District Office as the Technology Development Coordinator. While pursuing her Master's at ASU, she worked as an instructor and researcher under the PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology) grant. She began her career as a high school Language Arts teacher and Fastpitch Softball coach in Washington State. Laura has an M.Ed in Learning and Instructional Technology from Arizona State and a B.A. in English/Language Arts and Secondary Education from Washington State.
Kim Grady
Facilitator for Interactive Simulations Discussion Group (afternoon sessions)
Kim is a graduate of the Educational Technology Department at Arizona State University. She spent 15 years working in the semiconductor industry as an educational technologist and was responsible for implementing the first alternative delivery education systems at Motorola and Intel. She is currently the director and principal investigator of the MATEC - National Resource Center, an NSF funded project with the purpose of creating an online clearinghouse of exemplary instructional resources for manufacturing and engineering.
Lisa Young
co-Facilitator for Supplemental Website Discussion Group (afternoon sessions)
Lisa Young, co-chair of the Ocotillo Reusable Learning Objects Action Group, is a faculty member and Program Director at GateWay Community College. She has taught classes in water resources and occupational safety and health and managed the programs for over eleven years. She was one of the first faculty members at GWCC to use online resources and online and hybrid delivery methods in her classes. She holds a M.Ed. in Learning and Instructional Technology from Arizona State University.
Donna Rebadow
co-Facilitator for Supplemental Website Discussion Group (afternoon sessions)
Lisa Young, co-chair of the Ocotillo Reusable Learning Objects Action Group, is a faculty member at Paradise Valley Community College, having taught in the Maricopa District for 23 years as both adjunct and residential faculty. She received her Bachelor's degree from Wayland Baptist College (Plainview, Texas) in Psychology and Physical Education and her M.S. from Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. She's been involved with the utilization of technology in education since 1982 and helped to create numerous online and hybrid courses for a variety of programs at PVCC. She has presented at institutional, local and national, and international disciplinary and interdisciplinary workshops about technology, including: "Technology for Learning: Mirage, Reality, or Magic," "What a Site: Finding, Evaluating, and Integrating Web Sites," and "©opyright Doesn't Mean "Copy it Outright!". This is her second stint with an Ocotillo project, having served as Chair for "The Authoring Group" in 1995.
Peggy Johnson
Facilitator for Assessment & Secure Online Quizzing/Testing Discussion Group (afternoon sessions)
Peg Johnson taught biology and microbiology at Mesa Community College for over twenty-five years. In 1998, she created and began teaching an online biology laboratory course that was designated as a WebCT Exemplary Course. In addition to her teaching duties, she has led the Distance Learning Mentoring Group. As an active retiree, Peg works as a faculty development consultant in the Center for Teaching and Learning.
