Welcome to Freshmancomp.com, my teaching and learning website for South Mountain Community College. This will be my 11th year at SMCC, and my 19th year teaching overall.
I started teaching in 1990 right out of college. I taught 2 years at Deer Valley HS, 2 years at Westwood HS, and 4 years at Central Arizona College before coming to South. Before starting my teaching career, I studied communications at Phoenix College. I later changed my major and my location and earned a:
- B.A. in English Literature from California State University, Bakersfield in 1989, and a
- M.Ed. in English Secondary Education from Northern Arizona University in 1993.
In 2004-2005 I took a sabbatical from Maricopa to finish up my doctoral dissertation on the effects of hybrid courses on retention and student satisfaction, and I finished my:
- Ed.D in Instructional Technology & Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University in 2006.
I am a big advocate for the use of technology in the classroom, and I’ve been doing a lot of research on podcasting/vodcasting and many other Web 2.0 technologies that have popped up on the web in recent years. I share my experiences with these technologies on my various blogs:
- The Maricopa Experience
- Coop’s Word on Podcasting & Blogging
- Coop’s Word Wiki: Technology Use In & Out of the Classroom
You can find me online in various social networks:
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