Teaching & Learning @ Cabrillo
What is the TLC?
The Teaching & Learning Center, or TLC as we like to call it, is a technology resource center for faculty and staff. Our services are primarily instructional in nature. For example, any technology that's used to teach students, we support it. The most widely used technology is the web and faculty spend hours learning how to create web pages and use a learning management system to support student learning. We also instruct faculty on how to create podcasts, video tutorials, and teach online.
Teaching
Digital Media 70
Web Design Basics
using Dreamweaver
Applies Dreamweaver software to combine text and graphics to create, edit, and manage web sites. Taught on Macintosh; adaptable to Windows. Prerequisite: DM 60A or equivalent skills. Transfer Credit, CSU.
I am also currently Program Chair for the Digital Media Program.
TLC Services
The most requested services are related to teaching using Blackboard, an online learning management system. We administrate the software, create accounts for more than 200 faculty each semester, and provide helpdesk support to almost 9,000 students per semester. My favorite technology is web conferencing. One of the best tools I have found for teaching my class is a webconferencing tool called Elluminate. It's provided to all faculty/staff through CCC Confer, a projectt funded by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office.
About Me
My husband Mark and I lived in Aptos/La Selva Beach for over 35 years and raised our 3 sons there. We just moved to Scotts Valley and love being "above the fishhook." In our spare time we golf, travel, and cheer on the Cal Bears football team and Golden Gate Rugby Club (2011 National Super League Champions). Two of our sons still play rugby.
Education
Coursework, Library and Information Science, San Jose State University
MA in Education, Instructional Technology, San Jose State University, California, 1996 Outstanding Master's Project, web-based tutorial
BA in Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, 1993 Senior project with Dr. Sol Silverman, UCSF, Department of Oral Pathology
AS in Dental Hygiene, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California, 1978
Work
2011 to present
Digital Media Program Chair
1997–2005, 2006 to present
Director, Teaching & Learning Center, Cabrillo College
Distance Education, Technology Training and Support, Staff Development, Digital Media Instructor
2008–2010
Online instructor with @ONE, a technology training project funded by the California Community College Chancellor's Office
2005
Director of Enrollment Services Coordination of the Enrollment Services Center project.
1993–1997
Clinical Coordinator and Instructor, Dental Hygiene, Cabrillo College
1978–1997
Practicing dental hygienist in Santa Cruz County.
Synergistic Activities
DETCHE (Directors of Educational Technology, California Higher Education) Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2012
@ONE Online Teaching Conference, June 2011, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa
2010 Cabrillo College Web Team
@ONE Online Teaching Conference, June 2009, Cabrillo College
@ONE Advisory Committee member; provides technology support to faculty and staff through the California Community College system
2006-2008, California Educational Technology Collaborative Ambassador
Asilomar Leadership Skills Seminar, March 2007, sponsored by the Community College League of California
Cabrillo iTunesU application administrator.
2004 Sloan-C Online Research Workshop Forum
1996–present, worked with over 240 faculty on the design and development of technology-mediated instruction, including 19 online courses
Project consultant and designer, Design and Delivery of an Online Course, 2001, developed in collaboration with Valerie Landau, Associate Professor, California State University, Monterey Bay.
CVC1 Streaming Media Pilot Project, 2001
Distance Education, Flexible Options for Earning College Credit, video produced by Community Television of Santa Cruz County, Dr. Bette Hirsch and Francine Van Meter, 1999
Presenter, California Virtual Campus Project 2000 and 2001 Annual Conferences, with Martha Mills and Scott Hildreth, California Virtual Campus
Presenter at 2001 Alliance for Distance Education Annual Conference with Valerie Landau, CSUMB
Presenter at 1998 and 2000 TechEd and 2001 California Community College Trainer’s Network Roundtable
Trainer for the 1999 and 2000 @ONE Summer Technology Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay, sponsored by the Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges
Presenter, The Fun, Fear, and Foibles of Distance Education, California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Mega Conference, 1999, Monterey
Project consultant and trainer for the 1998 Bay Area Vocational Educators’ Technology Institute. Collaborators & Other Affiliations