About Me
I started my career in education in 1994 as an English teacher in a
junior high. I taught seventh grade English, eighth grade English,
ninth grade English, reading language, and publications I stayed at the
same school for 17 years. In 2011, a new school opened in my district.
It was an experiment in running a 1:1 school. The students were issued
netbooks at the beginning of the year. There were no textbooks in the
building. I was selected to be part of the leadership team for that
school. I taught eighth grade and ninth grade English. In 2014 I began
work on my Masters degree in Instructional Technology and Learning
Sciences at Utah State University. I shared with my students in class
my progress. I loved that I could take what I was learning in my upper
division courses and apply it the next day in my junior high classes. I
graduated from Utah State in 2016.
After 23 years in the public education classroom, I moved to a
different field in education. I started working as a curriculum
designer at Brigham Young University in 2017. Two weeks after starting
there, I was asked to lead the team that would help convert all campus
faculty courses from one LMS to another. Apparently the last conversion
was traumatic for the faculty, so the powers that be wanted to baby
them through the next one. My team and I sat down and had one on one
dicussions will each faculty member about every course. As each course
was converted, we would sit down with the faculty member again to make
sure everything was right. It was a great experience.
In the fall of 2019 I had the feeling that I needed to return to school
to get my doctorate. I was accepted into the Educational Technology
program at Boise State University. I started in April, 2020. This
brought about the reason for this site. I need a place to keep my
writings.