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Objective

Working on a Doctor of Education degree with a specializations in International Higher Education and Higher Education Administration at Northeastern Univ in Boston.

Work History

Brevard Community College

Melbourne, FL, United States
Jan 1990 - Present
Associate Professor, Computer Science 

I worked at three Brevard Community College campuses: (I took leave for a year to have a second child.) Just click on the name of the college to visit the site or if you are using the Adobe Acrobat reader to view this resume, please click here to visit it.

 

1. Cocoa Campus: Spanish Adjunct Instructor and also Spanish Language Lab Specialist.

2. Patrick Air Force Campus: Spanish Adjunct Instructor ( This campus closed after the 9-11 incident.)

3. Melbourne Campus: Adjunct Instructor of Computer Science and presently as an tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science.

Brevard County Public Schools

Viera, FL, United States
Aug 1985 - Jun 1988
Teacher of English and Spanish 

Taught at 3 different schools throughout Brevard County, these are: ( Just click on the name above to visit the Brevard County Public School's site or if you are using the Adobe Acrobat reader to view this resume, please click here to visit it.)

 

1. Cape View Elementary School in Cape Canaveral: taught before and after school Spanish clases.

2. Roosevelt Middle School in Cocoa Beach: taught before and after school Spanish classes.

3. McNair Middle School in Rockledge: taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade English classes.

Education

Florida Institute of Technology

Melbourne, FL, United States
1990 - 1993
MS, Computer Education

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University of South Florida

Tampa, FL, United States
1975 - 1978
BA, Criminal Justice

Apparently, now the name of my prior major of Criminal Justice was changed to a major of Criminology. Just click on the name of the college to visit it's website or if you are using the Adobe Acrobat reader to view this resume, please click here to visit it.

Additional Educational Pursuits

I have also attended the following colleges and corporations:

 

The Universities are:

 

1. Univ of Central Oklahoma : Completed a 3 credit graduate level class in Visual Basic.net.

 

2. University of Central Florida : Completed various graduate level classes in the Education field.

 

3. Univ of Maryland Univ College: Completed a 3 credit graduate level class in Multimedia and the Internet.

 

4. Ball State Univ: Completed a 3 credit graduate level Technology Education Seminar.

 

5. Florida International Univ: Completed a 1 credit graduate level class in Geographical Information Systems.

 

6. University of Wisconsin: Completed a 3 credit graduate level class in Integrating Technology in Education.

 

7. Inter-American University: Completed my first year of undergraduate studies.

 

The Corporations are:

 

1. IBM Red Hat Alliance: I was awarded a certificate for completing the Red Hat Linux System Admin 1 + 2 course.

 

2. Sun Corp: I was awarded a certificate for completing a Java Programming Language Course.

Curriculum and In-service Projects

During my teaching career at Brevard Community college, I have created new classes for the Computer Science department, created a summer computer applications class for kids and even created and led faculty in-services for my college.

 

The following is a list of of these activities:

 

1. Developed and taught a two week summer computer applications program for kids. The class was offered as part of the Brevard Community College's Super Summer Fun Camps program for children. Many educational programs that were popular at the time were used. June 1995

 

2. Developed and taught a 1 credit hour undergraduate class titled: "Introduction to the Mac". August 1995

 

3. Developed and taught a two hour faculty workshop titled:  "Maximizing Your Mac". Jan 1996

 

4. Developed and taught a two hour faculty workshop titled:  "Introduction to Windows 95". Feb 1996

 

5. Created and taught a new 3 credit hour introductory programming class titled: "Principles of Programming" (Collaborated with professors from 4 Brevard Community campuses to create it.) June 2003

 

6. Created and taught a 3 credit hour class titled: "Web Programming Languages". August 2004

 

7. Created  and taught two 3 credit hour undergraduate level Unix courses for my college titled: "Unix Fundamentals"  and "Unix System Administration". Fall 2006

 

8. Worked with another professor to revise the course described in item # 6 above. We decided to create two classes under this subject titled: "Server Side Web Programming Languages" and "Client Side Web Programming Languages". Spring 2006

 

9. Due to the fact that few students were signing up for the advanced Unix class in item # 7, I decided to consolidate the most important parts of the two classes and create a new class. I also named the class: "Linux Networking and System Administration". Fall 2007

 

10. I created and taught a two hour faculty workshop titled: "Creating Better PowerPoint Presentations". Everyone loved the workshop and asked me to expand on it. I plan to teach an expanded version of this workshop again at the end of this school year. May 2009

Textbook Review Project

Java Programming Second Edition Book, Front Cover

BookFront
This is the front cover of a book published by Course Technology Publishing. The company hired me to review and recommend changes to improve it.

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Pg. XV where the author thanks me and other reviewers for our help.

acknowledgement
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Java Programming Second Edition Book, Back Cover

BookBack
This is the back cover of the book. Just double click on the image above so you can see an enlarged format of the image and be able to read the ISBN# of this book. Then just click on something else on this page to make the screen look normal again.

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Spanish Translation Project

Social Media Spanish Translations Section

Spanish
Since I am fully bilingual both in English and in Spanish, I was part of a team of volunteers that collaborated to translate the help sections of the Social Media classroom shown on this site. We also translated the internal Personal Home Page (PHP) code that formats these pages.

The classroom was created under the leadership of Professor Howard Rheingold of the Univ of California in Berkeley.

While I was translating both the PHP code and the help pages, I found that my knowledge of Linux, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and programming concepts came in very handy.

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Drupal Website

Drupal
This is a snapshot of the Drupal website.

Drupal, which is an open source content management system, was used by the programming team at the Univ of California in Berkeley, to develop the Social Media classroom.

This software is free for anyone who wishes to download it.

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Howard Rheingold's Vlog

Howard
Howard Rheingold and his team plan to port the Social Media classroom into the Spanish language so that Universities in Spain and other Spanish speaking countries can use it.

I met Howard Reingold on Twitter and volunteered to help when he posted that he needed volunteer translators.

The assignment was so challenging and time consuming. However, I learned so much about Drupal and the PHP scripting language. I also met the other amazing volunteers and had a great time working on this project.

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Computer Industry Certifications

A+ Logo

A+
I studied and took 2 exams to earn this certification.This is the industry standard for certification as a Computer Support Technician.

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Network+ Logo

Net+
I studied and took 1 exam to earn this certification. This is the industry standard for certification as a generic Computer Network Administrator.

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Linux+ Logo

Linux +
I studied and took 1 exam to earn this certification. This is the industry standard for certification as a vendor neutral Linux Network Administrator.

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My Faculty Webpage

Myfacultysite

This is a snapshot of my Faculty Website. I created it myself and have it in addition to the automatically generated faculty websites that my college provides for all faculty. I just love to continually update it for my students.

 

It has helped me to organize my teaching in a big way. Any and all handouts that I need are right at my finger tips. I find them quickly without having to to figure out or remember what file drawers I put them in or the names I saved the files under when I created them.

 

I also use the."Angel Content Management System", that is required by my college but feel that my site acts as a backup in case the Angel system is down at my college.

 

The full time faculty at my college are not required to teach during the summer semesters. Therefore, Angel accounts and automatically generated faculty web pages are not active during this term. This presents an obstacle for students who wish to learn more about college faculty or classes during the summer months.

 

My website helps to solve this problem for any of my potential future students because it provides them with a place where they can go to find out more information about the classes that I teach any time of the year.

 

My students also love the fact that they can get any handout that I gave out in class if they need a duplicate or were absent with having to remember a user name or password.

 

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My Microblogging Webpage.

Twitter

This is a snapshot of my Twitter page. I have met many fabulous educators from around the world on Twitter.

 

Many informal online Personal Learning Networks have been created on Twitter and I have certainly become a part of these groups. I  really enjoy sharing educational ideas and resources with them as much as I can throughout the year.

 

In a year and a half, I have learned more by participating in these groups about teaching and learning than any education conference, degree or in-service workshop combined. Their support, sharing and advice has totally changed the way I teach.

 

Through them, I have been introduced to great educational topic blogs with many amazing teaching tips and ideas. A lot of these blogs are authored by keynote speakers at Education Conferences around the world. Currently, I use the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader called, "Bloglines" to subscribe to these blogs.

 

I have also received invitations from faculty members from other colleges to attend their online open-based graduate level classes. I try to attend these as much as possible and always enjoy the chat based class discussions.

 

On Jan 2009, I attended an education conference in Philadelphia called, "EduCon" and met around 50 educators in my Twitter based Personal Learning Network face to face. I also just finished attending this year's conference which took place on the last weekend of Jan. 2010.

 

Both conferences were stellar and my educational experiences there were amazing. I learned so much and the conferences have renewed and increased my enthusiasm for teaching. Again, I met many more of my Twitter based Personal Learning Network members face to face.

 

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My Online Video Greeting

Teachakid

This image is a snapshot of a blog which contains a VoiceTread from some of the members of my online Twitter Personal Learning Network.

 

Just click on the image above to visit this website and scroll down. There, you can watch a small video of me leaving a holiday greeting for my group. 

 

My video greeting is on the bottom right side, under the name of Nycrican2 and I am the fifth person from the bottom.

 

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My General Topic Blog

My Blog

This is a snapshot of my blog website. I have been blogging on different websites across the internet since 2006.

 

I love blogging whenever I can because it helps me practice my writing and organize my thoughts. I have consolidated all of my blogs on this site.

 

Recently I started requiring one of my classes to blog about class topics and comment on each others blogs. At least two students so far have really learned to love blogging and have continued to blog after my class was over.

 

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NSF Grant Project

Project EMD-MLR: Educational Material Development and Research in Machine Learning (2008)

Scientific commons

This is a snapshop of the Science Commons website. It mentions a project that I was a part of.

 

The website contains an abstract of a  collaborative project that I participated in with 3 other colleges. Our group applied for and won a $100,000.00 NSF grant to implement this project.

 

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My Social BookMarking Website

M y Diigo Page

This is a snapshot of my social bookmarking site. Social Bookmarking sites are just fabulous and this one is a favorite of mine.

 

These sites allow people to share and keep their bookmarks online, eliminating the need to be present on the computer in which the links were bookmarked on.

 

The bookmarks also require the user to describe and tag them making them very easy for others on the Social Bookmarking site to search for and share them.

 

Also, I am a member of an Educators group on the site shown above and we group our links together in one location to make them even easier to share the links with each other.

 

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