Blogs

Online Teaching Blog
History Blog
Connectivism 2008 Course Blog

Education

Certificate, Online Teaching Program, UCLA 2005
M.A. History, University of California, Santa Barbara 1989
B.A. History, California State University, Bakersfield 1986

Employment

Online History Instructor, MiraCosta College (1998-present)
History Instructor, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, California (1989-present)
MiraCosta Home Page

Teaching and Technology Leadership

• Director, Program for Online Teaching, MiraCosta College (2005-present)
• Moodle Faculty Lead (2007-present)
• Chair, Technology and Pedagogy Committee (1999-2003 and 2005-06)
• Distance Education Committee (Spring 2006)
• Moderator, MiraCosta Online Teaching listserv (2005-present)
• Sabbatical Project: Multimedia for Online Classes (2004)
• Professional Development Projects:
      ADA compliance (2005-06), Blackboard conversion (2003-4), Hiroshima and Modern Art slideshows (2002-03),
      HTML and Online Classes (2000-01)
• Online Tutoring Dialogue, Retention Services (2003)
• Accreditation Standard III Subcommittee: Technology Resources (2002)

Recent Presentations

"Adventures in Onine Pedagogy" with Jim Sullivan (video) (January 2010)
    ""Online Instructors Roundtable"
"Getting Started Teaching Online" with Jim Sullivan (video) (August 2009)
    "Teaching a Hybrid Class" with Jim Sullivan
    "Online Teaching Class Showcase"
    "The Unconference Panel"
"Beginning Online Teaching" with Jim Sullivan (video) (May 2009)
Program for Online Teaching workshops (January 2009)
    "Online Pedagogy: Brain-Friendly Learning" with Jim Sullivan (video)
    "Serious Play: Online Discovery Workshop" (source page)
    "Online Class Showcase"
Program for Online Teaching First Friday Workshop (December 2008)
    "Serious Play: Online Discovery Workshop" (source page)
Desktop Seminar
    Building Community Online, Part 2: Blogging for Fun and Learning (Oct 2008) (slides)
Program for Online Teaching workshops (August 2008)
    "Beginning Online Teaching: Moving an Onsite Class to Online"
    "Pedagogy and Current Technologies Brainstorm" (podcast)
    "Using Moodle"
    "Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning" (for new faculty) (slides)
2008 Online Teaching Conference (June 2008)
    "Enhancing Online Teaching with Web 2.0" (video)
Program for Online Teaching Summer workshops (June 2008)
    "Teaching Well Online" (video, audio)
    "Getting the Most from Moodle" (audio)
2008 Online Teaching Excellence Symposium (April 2008)
    "Interactivity and Learning Styles"
Program for Online Teaching workshops (October/November 2007)
    "Beginning Online Teaching"
    "Online Class Showcase"
    "Dreamweaver and HTML"
Program for Online Teaching workshops (August 2007)
    "Roundtable: Course Design in Course Management Systems"
2007 Online Best Practices Showcase and Expo (April 2007)
    "Interactivity and Learning Styles"(video)
Program for Online Teaching workshop (March 2007)
    "Social Networks and Online Teaching"
Program for Online Teaching workshops (January 2007)
    "Advanced Interactivity Online: Blogs, Wikis, and RSS"
    "Online Teaching Advanced Presentation: Audio, Video, Slideshows"
    "Brief Introduction to Online Teaching"
    "Online Teaching Roundtable"
Program for Online Teaching workshops (August 2006)
    "Overview of Online Teaching at MiraCosta"
    "Creating Online Lectures and Activities"
    "Getting Online Course Approval"
    "Online Teaching and Learning Styles"
"Online Teaching Techniques", MiraCosta College (April 2006)
Program for Online Teaching workshops (January 2006)
    "Online Teaching: Advanced Practices"
    "Creating Multimedia: Audio, Video, Slideshows"
    "Interactivity Online: Blogs, Wikis, etc."

Publications

"Insidious Pedagogy: How Course Management Systems Impact Teaching"
   First Monday [Online], Volume 14 Number 10 (27 September 2009)
"Toolbox or Trap? Course Management Systems and Pedagogy"
    EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2 (April–June 2008)
Chapters: "Teaching with Style" and "Making Course Management Systems Work"
     Digital Discourse: On-Line Education and the Humanities
    S. Hoffman & K. Robison (Eds.) M. E. Sharpe (in press)
"An Alternative Way of Constructing a Class Website" [pdf], , A Collection of GIFTs:
     Great Ideas for Teaching, MiraCosta College Writing Center (Spring 2007)
Chapters for Modern Western Civilization: Rise of Absolutism to the Present,
    National Social Science Press (Fall 2006)
"Checking Student Preparedness for Web Technology" [pdf] , A Collection of GIFTs:
     Great Ideas for Teaching, MiraCosta College Writing Center (Fall 2006)
"Alternatives to Lecture for History Classes", National Social Science Association
     Proceedings Journal (1993)
"Problems in English Textile History: Case Studies in the Techniques of the Medieval and
     Early Modern Woollen Industry (Master's Thesis 1989)

Authored Online Resources

Lisa's Guide to Historical Thinking
History 103: Western Civilization lectures and slides

Class tutorial for students

Introduction and class info for students

Current Online Classes

U.S. History II -- developed in HTML 1998 (with Blackboard shell -- now in Moodle)
History of England -- developed in HTML 2003 (with Moodle shell)
Western Civilization II -- developed in HTML 2004 (with Blackboard shell -- now in Moodle)
Hybrid Classes: Western Civilization II (Spring 2005), History 111 (1999-2000)

Toolbox

Professional Development

Ed-Media: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (June 2009)
From Courses to Dis-course (May 2009)
Connectivism: Massive Open Online Course (2008) for graduate credit
EC&I: Social Media in Teaching and Learning (external participant) (Spring 2008)
Ed-Media (June 2007)
Future of Education Conference 2007 (June 2007)
2007 Online Teaching Conference (June 2007)
Technology, Colleges and Community Online Conference (April 2007)
TechEd 2007 (March 2007)
Illinois Online Conference 2007 (February 2007)
2006 Online Teaching Conference (CVC, @ONE) San Diego City College (June 2006)
New Media Consortium online conference on Personal Broadcasting (April 2006)
National Technology and Social Science conference (April 05 and April 06)
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies conference (March 06)
CVC online course: Quality Online (Fall 2004)

Memberships

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
Sloan Consortium
Moodle (Moodle.org)
EDUCAUSE
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Faculty Association of California Community College (FACCC)
Society for History Education
National Social Science Association
Organization of American Historians
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
H-NET: H-TEACH and H-EDTECH (listservs)

Professional Social Networks

Additional Experience, Awards & History

Consultant for Online Instruction, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (2009-present)
Professional Development Committee (2008-09)
Professional Advancement Committee (2000-01)
History Honors and Directed Studies Instructor (1993-98)
Director/Founder, North County Global History Project (1992-94)
NISOD Excellence Award (1994)
Outstanding Faculty Award (1992)
"Alternatives to Lecture for History Classes", National Social Science Association (1993)
"The War for Kuwait: Causes and Consequences", Fallbrook Democratic Club (1991)
Lighting Designer, theatre (1984-86, 1989-91)
Production Manager, Kern Shakespeare Festival (1985)

Contacts

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