Campus and District Service
Grants | Students | Committees | Staff Development | Curriculum Development | District/Campus Leadership
Grants
- VTEA One-Time Funding (Fall 2006) - proposal
- Lego Robotics mini-grant (Spring 2006) - proposal
- Title V Distance Learning Activity (Spring 2003) - Porterville College
Students
- Students Intrigued by Technology - faculty advisor [website]
- Goals
- Social - hang out with other people who like to explore technology and play with LEGOs.
- Academic - visit university campuses with computer science programs, participate in robotics competitions, challenge ourselves to solve interesting problems.
- Community Service - create educational experiences for fair visitors, outreach to elementary and high school students.
- Activities
- Preview Day - Spring 2006
- 5th Graders "I Can Go to College" day - Spring 2006
- High School Preview Day - Spring 2006
- Rotary Club Phillipenes Demonstration - October 2006
- Desert Empire Fair - Fall 2006
- CIS Advisory Board demonstration - October 2006
- High School Preview Day - Fall 2006
- Murray Middle School Demonstration - November 2006
- China Lake NAWS tour - December 2006
- Guest Speaker: Dr. Steven Kurti - December 2006
- Kern River Valley Robotics Workshop - January 2007
- China Lake Rotary Club Presentation - January 2007
- Guest Speaker: Mr. Jim Weston - March 2007
- Ridgecrest Library Presentation -March 2007
- UC Riverside/San Diego trip - March 2007
- IWV Robotics Workshop - April 2007
- KRV Club Social Activity - April 2007
- Mammoth Career Day - April 2007
- Desert Empire Fair Spring Festival - April 2007
- Inyokern Elementary School RoboWeek - May 2007
- 5th Graders "I Can Go to College" day - May 2007
- KCCD Board of Trustees - May 2007
- Expanding Your Horizons - May 2007
- Antelope Valley Aerospace Walk of Honor - September 2007 (invited participant)
- Projects
- Abandon LEGO Rescue Effort
- Recycled Hardware Refurbishing Project
Committees
- Cerro Coso Community College
- Online Teaching Ad Hoc Committee (2007)
- Network Administrator Hiring Committee (2006-07)
- CCA Campus Representative (2006-07)
- Web Site Redesign committee (2006-07)
- CCA Membership Representative (2005-06)
- Technology Resource Team member (2004-present)
- Educational Technology subcommittee chair (2004-present)
- Distance Learning subcommittee member (2004-present)
- District Wide Information Technology member (2002-present)
- District Intellectual Property Task Force member (2004-05)
- Porterville College
- Distance Education subcommittee chairperson
- Educational Aide curriculum development
- Title V Grant distance learning project author
- Campus Information Technology member
- District Wide Information Technology member
Staff Development
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Cerro Coso Community College
- Campus Moodle Mentor: help faculty migrate their courses to the Moodle platform (2005-present)
- Workshop presenter:
- Communication and Collaboration with Moodle - January 2007
- "Moodler's Annonymous" - February 2005
- "Introduction to Moodle" - January 2005
- Porterville College
- Committee Member
- Techology track coordinator
- Arrange guest speakers: multimedia, accessibility, California Virtual Campus, teaching language arts online
- Arrange schedules, coordinate workshops, prepare handout
- Workshop presenter:
- "Moodler's Annonymous" - February 2005
- "Introduction to Moodle" - January 2005
- "Online Educational Opportunities" - August 2002
- "Online Open House" - August 2002
- "Infusing Technology into Your Classroom with Blackboard" - January 2002
- "Introduction to Blackboard" - December 2001
- "So Many Pages, So Little Time: Finding What You Are Looking for Online" - August 2001
- "Getting Your Class Online with Dreamweaver" - August 2001
- "Internet and Email" - August 1997
Curriculum Development
- Cerro Coso Community College
- CIS Degree and Certification Revision - Spring 2006 (lead developer)
- CSCI 081: Lego Robotics Special Topics class
- CSCI 101: Intro to Computer Information Systems (revision team)
- CSCI 251: Visual Basic (revision)
- CSCI 252: Intro to Computer Science (revision)
- CSCI 280: PHP (new course)
- CSCI 285: XML (new course)
- CSCI 199A: Introduction to LEGO Robotics
- INST 051: Successful Online Student (revision)
- INST 269: Developing and Managing a Course with Moodle
- Porterville College
- INFS P050: Introduction to the Internet (revision)
- INFS P051: Web Page Design (new course)
- INFS P053: Advanced Web Design (new course)
- INFS P055: Internet Research (new course)
- INFS P056: Web Page Practicum (new course)
- INFS P058s: Becoming a Successful Online Student
District/Campus Leadership and Service
- Cerro Coso Community College
- CCA Campus Representative
- Sungard IT Assessment: Organized student roundtable with Sungard evaluators (Fall 2006)
- District Distance Education Task Force: Cerro Coso Community College faculty representative. (2006-07)
- District Distance Education Task Force. Participated in writing proposal to the District Executive Council for the formation of a task force to facilitate distance education coordination and collaboration among the campuses. (Summer 2006)
- Compiled and edited department Educational Master Plan. [doc] (Spring 2005)
- California Educational Technology Collaborative Ambassador for Cerro Coso Community College. The Ambassador serves as a campus resource and liaison between the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and the array of technology services available to the California Community Colleges. (2005-present)
- Introduced Moodle to Cerro Coso Online and facilitated a pilot program for Spring 2005 and Fall 2005 semesters. Mentored numerous Cerro Coso faculty in the adoption and use of this course management system, for both online and face to face courses.
- Porterville College
- California Virtual Campus Region 4 (CVC4) Mentor. Training and facilitating workshops in online pedagogy, course management systems, work with online instructors and other faculty to develop online courses.
- Distance Education Coordinator. Porterville College. Support and train faculty in online course development; Blackboard administrator; file reports to campus, district, and state organizations; represent online education to curriculum committee, college learning council, IT committee, and other campus entities.
- Created an online help desk at Porterville College staffed by information systems students to help online students and campus personnel with technical issues relating to online classes and computers in general.
- Facilitated the adoption of a campus wide course management system for online and hybrid courses (Blackboard)
- Created a distance education online portal for faculty, current students, and prospective students.
- Instructional Technologist. Work with faculty and staff to better utilize technology in the classroom.
