Statements of teaching and leadership
As Academic Director
My leadership style can be summed up by my willingness to facilitate excitement in bringing new ideas and working with current directions of best practices. Academic technology is a vast and changing field with unique service, management, and leadership challenges. I embrace this with enthusiasm.
I strive to manage people so they are empowered, listening carefully to their feedback and ideas, respecting and trusting people I work with as professionals.
I promote and facilitate the integration of technology as it fits the mission of the school through planning, programming, training, and consulting.
I strive to explore and implement the sharing of information electronically both locally and globally.
Above all, I maintain my sense of humor!
As Teacher
As a computer teacher and technology integrator for the past ten years I am committed to inspiring student learning and creativity.
In this rapidly changing world, my focus is to become a co-learner with my students and yet help them develop their technology skills.
Together with the leadership of the school I seek to develop a vision of technology infusion, which includes networking to facilitate students in responsible communication locally and globally.
Today’s students communicate in an online social world and they need leadership to be effective in this realm. My studies, teaching, and the independent work in my academic career has put me in a unique position to work with today’s students. Currently my work in school incorporates gaming as a learning tool across the curriculum.
Through my more than 15 years of work and research into on line communication (Masters and PhD in this area) I see delivering of educational material and experiences as a basis to synchronise with collaborative social networking of today's students. Social-cultural factors of what is trending influences the student's classroom ecology and it is with the working of what students use socially outside of the school environment that we can find what works within an educational format to create interest for students from all backgrounds.
It is my hope that I can use my own enthusiasm to inspire my students to achieve their technology goals, and become lifelong learners in this.
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