Seeking new challenges in higher education and education technology, particularly in curriculum and instruction, research and evaluation, instructional systems design, telecommunications, and ed. tech. consulting.

Extensive experience in curriculum design and ed. tech. consulting, working for various agencies and organizations—both nationally and internationally.

Finding the Perfect Fit, Austin TX: Freelance Education Technology Consultant (01/95 - present)
In 1995 established Finding the Perfect Fit to work as a freelance education technology consultant. Work has included course design, workshop presentations and training, keynote addresses, and mediation.

University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX: Graduate Research Assistant-WINGS Online Program (01/01 - 08/02)
Worked to develop and maintain the WINGS Online telementoring program for the College of Education. The program provided telementors and facilitators for pre-service and induction year teachers in the state of Texas who received their training at the University of Texas at Austin.

University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX: Teaching Assistant-Student Teaching Supervisor (08/98 - 12/00)
Supervised pre-service teachers during their observation and student teaching blocks. Worked with pre-service teachers interested in regular education elementary positions and special education elementary positions.

Austin ISD-Casis Elementary, Austin TX: 5th Grade Teacher (08/88 - 05/98)
Worked as a teacher with gifted and regular 5th grade students. Leadership positions during the 10 years at this position included:

• Team leader (1989-1991; 1995-1997);
• District Technology Leadership Team Member (1997-1998);
• District Level Math Contact Person (1992-1996);
• Member of the Campus Leadership Team (1992-1994).

Austin ISD-Casis Elementary, Austin TX: Sp. Ed. Emotional disturbance unit for grades 3-6. (08/87 - 05/88)
In 1987, the unit previously at Gullett Elementary was transferred to Casis Elementary.

Austin ISD-Gullett Elementary, Austin TX: Sp. Ed. Emotional disturbance unit for grades 3-6. (08/86 - 08/87)
Worked in a self-contained unit for aggressive emotionally disturbed students. These students were either recently been dismissed from or about to be assigned to the state school for E.D. students or the state's youth correction unit.

Manor ISD-Manor Elementary, Manor TX: Special Ed. teacher. Resource unit for grades 1-2 (08/85 - 05/86)
Worked with mainstreamed low SES students.

Smithville ISD-Smithville Elementary, Smithville TX: Special Ed. teacher. Resource unit for 5th & 6th. (08/83 - 05/85)
Worked with mainstreamed low SES students.

El Paso ISD-Crosby Elementary, El Paso TX: Special Ed. teacher. Resource unit for grades 1-8 (08/77 - 05/83)
Worked with both mainstreamed and self-contained special education students. In addition, took part in school leadership positions (e.g. TSTA campus representative; PTA board member; City-Wide PTA Council).

Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction-Instructional Technology from the University of Texas at Austin, GPA: 4.0, Austin TX (2003)
Coursework included:

• design of instructional systems
• critical theory/ethnography
• multimedia and curriculum design
• design of online courses
• research and evaluation
• consultancy

The focus of my dissertation was on the perceptions of K-12 educators integrating telecollaborative and/or telecooperative projects into classroom curricula for the first time. It also focused on systematic and institutional change and professional development.

M.S.Ed.  Special Education-Behavior Disorders from the University of Texas at Austin, GPA: 4.0, Austin TX (1990)
Studies included exploration of various behavior disorders as recognized in APA's Diagnostic Statistical Manual. Intervention schemes and programs were part of the program and special emphasis was placed upon working with "emotionally disturbed" students, "autistic" students, and "gifted" students.

B.S.Ed.  Special Education-Behavior Disorders from Texas Tech University, GPA: 3.92, Lubbock TX (1977)
Studies included regular elementary education, K-12 music education, K-12 special education.

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD);
• International Society for Technological Education (ISTE);
• Texas Computer Educators Association (TCEA);
• Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT);
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE);
• The National Staff Development Council (NSDC);
• National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking (NCECT)

LOCAL:

• Volunteer Coordinator for AISD's Bowie High School Band (Fall 2001 to present)
• Americorps Technology workshop "Introduction to KIDLINK" (Feb. 1997)
• Austin ISD: Casis Elementary Technology Committee member. Campus Internet trainer, assistant trainer for other campus-wide technology workshops (1989-1998)
• Austin ISD: District Technology Leadership Team member, providing technology training for teachers at Casis Elementary and other A.I.S.D. schools (1996-1998)
• Guest Speaker on KGSR's Tech Ranch (Oct. 1998)
• Guest Speaker on KGSR's Tech Ranch (July 1999)

STATE

• Keynote at TechLinks in Lubbock, Texas (May 2000)
• Workshop presenter at TCEA "Finding the Perfect Fit" (Feb. 1999)
• One of 12 teachers in Texas to present at Texas Capitol Schoolhouse demonstrating ways to integrate technology in the classroom to Texas Legislators (Jan. 1997)
• Presenter at TCEA "You are Entering an Educational Chat Zone: The KIDLINK IRC" (Feb. 1997)
• Texas Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking "Web Searches: Using Critical Thinking to Implement Searches on the Web." (April 1997)

NATIONAL

• Keynote presentation at the Curriculum/Technology Conference held by Bartlesville Public Schools, Bartlesville Professional Development Center, Oklahoma Wesleyan University, and Oklahoma Technology Association (Feb. 2003)
• Designed a continuing medical education course on death certificates for the Texas Dept. of Health as requested by the A.M.A. and World Health Organization and as part of a course on instructional design at the University of Texas at Austin (April 1999)
• Designed a Web site to help explain critical theory and its impact on education as part of a course on systems of human inquiry at the University of Texas at Austin. The site is being use by colleges and universities internationally and has been written up in eDUCATE!, a critical theory journal (Nov. 1999)
• Technology consultant for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (April 1998)
• National Teacher Training Institute for Math, Science and Technology for PBS - Master Teacher. Developed curriculum units integrating math, science and technology with instructional video for KLRU/WNET. (1997)
• Workshop co-presenter, along with UT professor, Judi Harris, Ph.D. at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Boyer Summit, training teachers how to design global classroom projects (Sept. 1997)
• Guest speaker for the South Central Region-Technology in Education Consortia (SCR-TEC) training teachers how to integrate technology in the classroom (July 1997)
• Presenter at NTTI "Integrating ITV in the Classroom: The Erosion Project" (Feb. 1997)
• Consulted with Webmaster for American Airlines Pilots Association to set up workshops to train pilots in HTML (July 1996).
• Liaison and consultant to the producer of the PBS program Computer Chronicles for a segment about KIDLINK, filmed December 16, 1995, which aired in January of 1996.

INTERNATIONAL

• Worked with Canada's SchoolNet (part of Industry Canada) and the Association of First Nations to develop KIDLINK online forums for aboriginal peoples in Canada and to provide teacher training for Canadian teachers. Helped to mediate relations between the two Canadian organizations (April 2000)
• Workshop presenter in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the 5th Kidlink International Conference Program (Oct. 1999)
• Workshop presenter in Copenhagen, Denmark for Global Learning in the 21st Century "Finding the Perfect Fit" (Oct. 1998)
• Workshop presenter at Conferencia International sobre Telecomunicaciones en Educacion in Lima, Peru (Aug. 1998)
• Workshop presenter at ISTE's TelED Conference for two workshops: one workshop focused on KIDLINK, and the other workshop focused on the role of technology in collaborative learning (Nov. 1997)
• Presenter at Netd@ys, European Computer Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, as both a workshop presenter discussing integration of telecommunications in the classroom and member of a discussion panel discussing free-form telecommunications projects (Oct. 1997)
• Guest lecturer via Internet for a graduate course on instructional technology at the University of Iceland (Spring 1997)
• Workshop presenter at the Faciodade de Carioca in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil-training teachers in Brasil in the use of telecommunications (Aug. 1996)

ONLINE

• Management Team member of KIDLINK, a global telecommunications organization for K-12 students.
  • Manager of KIDLINK's English Language Area (Fall-1999-Present)
  • Texas Contact for KIDLINK (along with Tenet Master Trainer, Barbara Hunter).
  • Manager of KIDCAFE (Fall 1998- Fall 1999)
  • Manager of KIDCAFE-School (1996-1998)
  • Assistant Manager of KIDLINK's Listserv (1995-1996)
  • Began as Assistant Manager of KIDLINK IRC (1995).
• Host of global telecommunication classroom projects.
  • KIDLINK Inventions Project '96 earned recognition by the Dorothy Lemuelson Center for Inventions and Innovations, a department of the Smithsonian.
  • Host of KIDLINK Math Around Us Project '97
  • Moderator of KIDPROJ's Math Around Us '98 on KIDLINK
• Member of the KIDLINK INSTITUTE-Education Services Division. KIE is an international educational technology team responsible for designing and implementing training modules to help teach teachers how to integrate technology, particularly telecommunications, in the classroom.
• Member of the KIDLINK INSTITUTE-Research Division. KIR is an international educational technology research support team adding those interested in the area of educational research.