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TTT: Please describe
your work at UW-Stout. Endowed in the name of Arthur Nakatani, a Stout graduate, the mission of the Nakatani Center for Learning Technologies is to "create and apply technology and research to the art and science of teaching". The Center serves as professional development area for faculty and staff of the university as well as providing outreach to other educators in our area. I coordinate the activities of the lab, consult with instructors who are using the lab, provide instruction and assist others who are providing instruction/training and ensure that the facility is always ready for use. The Nakatani Center is Stout's Learning Technology Center (LTC) and as the lab coordinator, I serve as the Stout representative to the Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC) that reports to the Office of Learning and Information Technology (OLIT). Currently, I serve as chair of the LTDC and am on the UW System Course Management System Task Force. I also serve on the UW-Stout Professional Development committee. I have seen vast changes in my role as coordinator of Instructional Graphics. Currently we provide a range of services including electronic presentations, research poster sessions, displays, as well as instructional design and visual design consulting (http://www.lts.uwstout.edu/graphic/index.htm). I volunteered to add to my job responsibilities as a member of the Laptop Training Team. The e-Scholar program at UW-Stout became a reality this fall when we distributed laptop computers (both PC and Mac) and provided training to all of our incoming freshmen. Many different teams worked during the 2001-2002 academic year to build the infrastructure and plan all phases of the project to make to program successful. Among the tasks our team focused on were providing training and support to those teaching freshmen courses; planning the training needed and the timing necessary to make each student feel comfortable using their laptop; conducting a self-assessment of skills during summer orientation; as well as forming an e-Scholar Mentor program that involves select students hired and trained to provide software assistance to our e-Scholar freshman. At the University level, I was an original member of the UW-Stout Academic Staff Committee, a founding member of the UW-Stout Senate of Academic Staff, served enumerable terms as a senator (thank goodness we put a limit on the consecutive terms of office one can serve when we wrote the By-laws!) and have just finished a six year stint as chair of the Academic Staff Personnel Committee - now I'm just a member of that committee. TTT: How long have you
been in your current position? TTT: What do you enjoy
most about your job? TTT: What's the most
memorable thing that has happened to you at this job? TTT: What do you enjoy
doing in your free time? Any hobbies, recent trips or hidden talents you'd
care to tell our readers about? Through scouting, our youngest
son became interested in Native American culture and dance. Therefore,
we all became involved!! We've learned much about culture (and have much
more to learn), we've made two sets of fancy dance regalia (starting with
turkey feathers and hackle and involving over 500 yards of ribbon), I've
made over 20 ribbon shirts, and we've met interesting people and have
had a great time.
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Thanks, Margy!