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This month, TTT features Karen Ryan, UW-River Falls' representative to the Learning Technology Development Council. TTT: Please describe your work at UW-River Falls. KR: My key responsibilities: Additional responsibilities: I serve as co-director of the UW-RF's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant, and work with grant director, Mary Lundeberg and the 23 student members of our Technology Leadership Cadre (TLC). We develop preservice teachers who mentor faculty, provide technology support to fellow students, and outreach to K-12 teachers. We are presently collaborating with several UW System campuses to promote student TLC through a UW System PT3 VIVA grant. I am the UW-RF Blackboard site administrator, the LTDC representative, and director of the Idea Center, our campus learning technology center for faculty. TTT: How long have you been in your current position? KR: I began my work at UW-River Falls on November 1, 1997, leaving a 16-year directorship of an instructional media facility, and teaching preservice teachers at Harris-Stowe State College. HSSC is a Historically Black College in St. Louis, Missouri, with a teacher preparation tradition of more than 150 years. Prior to HSSC, I enjoyed teaching Media Design and 35 mm Photography in the Communication Department at St. Louis University. I have been teaching since 1961, with earliest experiences at the elementary, then secondary level. TTT: What do you enjoy most about your job? KR: I have always appreciated the creative challenge of combining administrative responsibilities with teaching and working with members of the faculty. No day is the same as another. I love working with our students and faculty. TTT: What's the most memorable thing that has happened to you at this job? KR: It is too difficult to limit myself to one most memorable event. Please let me share three!
TTT: What do you enjoy doing in your free time? KR: I love spatial puttering,
constructing, redesigning around the house and always have projects in
the making. I am fueled by classical music and inspired by good design
no matter where I find it, publication, packaging, furniture, luggage,
(a happy carryover from a BFA in sculpture). |