Thrilled to start the 3rd wave of the SUNY COIL Center focusing on GLOBAL LEARNING FOR ALL! We see COIL Virtual Exchange as a pivotal place for students. A place where doors open to worlds unimagined. A place where the circumference of one’s life expands from one’s town to one’s county to the state and country of one’s teammates, potentially located in a completely different part of the world. This is the point where students connect, see parts of themselves reflected in others, where others become teammates and no longer "other". These experiences shape all of us. These are experiences where we no longer are ticking the boxes of obligation but seeing the possibilities to thrive and grow beyond our wildest dreams.

Creating and supporting a virtual exchange community of practice with the faculty, coordinators, and students of the colleges, universities, institutions of SUNY and our global partners worldwide.

For over twelve years, I supported faculty, creating learning opportunities in a wild array of media. http://instructional-design-suny-ulster.blogspot.com/I worked with the Hudson Valley Consortium of SUNY schools creating professional development opportunities for faculty from 5 SUNY community colleges. http://teachinginthehudsonvalley.blogspot.com/ I worked to strengthen the k-22 continuum with local school districts. I won and managed 11 school-wide grants for faculty projects involving professional development, equipment and stipends for faculty. I also also garnered a SUNY-wide Innovative Instructional Technology Grant, managing the creation of a virtual medical center for Ulster nursing students to practice critical thinking skills. I was the SUNY Ulster’s Nodal Network Coordinator, for COIL and has managed the faculty development in fostering International collaborations within LMS, social media, video conferencing, for student interaction from all angles at SUNY Ulster: http://sunyulsterid.weebly.com/teaching-internationallycoil.html,including collaborations with IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund faculty, to international instructor team led collaborations. Collaborations for Ulster students have included partners from Belarus, Brazil, Canada, England, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, and Taiwan. I have also consulted educators internationally. At NAFSA , I was part of a SUNY workshop; “Internationalizing Your Curriculum”. The COIL collaboration with SUNY Ulster and Fatec Americana in Sao Paolo, Brazil received the coveted Guia do Estudante-Santander Award, beating close to 2,000 competitors. Most recently, I sat on SUNY Ulster’s campus-wide Strategic Planning Committee, Presidential Search Committee as well as the Distance Learning Strategic Planning Committee. Here is my website re Instructional Design at SUNY Ulsterhttp://sunyulsterid.weebly.com/

Instruction for graduate level art teachers in training. We analyze the imagery and machinery of the media as well as educational software as well as hands-on learning how to use technology: software and hardware to empower students in making their own media.

I simultaneously studied toward recieving a Teacher's Certificate from Pratt Institute and Studio in a School; while providing Art Instruction for 600 students per week, 34 students per class, 2nd-5th grade with an emphasis on integrated learning involving writing, reading, science into the art classroom, creating projects which addressed several state and national standards. My educational research focused on incorporating technology into the classroom as a tool to shift the paradigm of the educational experience.

Worked nationwide with CTOs and fortune 500 vps and Instructional Strategists creating educational software for training purposes including a vision, brand strategy, storyboard and inter-activities to teach client’s concepts. Clients included: EDS, McDonalds, British Medical Journal, Lincoln Financial Distributors, Daimler Chrysler, Secure Computing, Marsh McLennan, Zyman Marketing

Managed and participated in teams strategizing, designing and producing sites. Clients included: Time Warner Electronic Books, Little Brown, Book of the Month Club, AF Associates, Goldman Sachs.

Managed team to research, and create a strategic concept treatment for a new web product and marketing, aimed at students visiting the Scholastic website. We developed a place where the student could access and participate in subject oriented web projects.

Managed the production for 3 CD-ROM Educational products, overseeing simultaneously 3 teams of writers, programmers, designers, medical illustrators, photo researchers. Advised company in approaching the internet with their content and how to implement a web-based educational product.

As Director of Photo - Developed a department and created systems to run all aspects of using photography in the online courseware from brainstorming where imagery would integrate with stories and lesson plans to creating storyboards for shots with content developers, to gathering imagery from stockhouses to shooting inhouse, to scanning to acquiring rights per image, to creating a tracking system for all the images used in the online courseware.For Prototyping - Creating a visual team to art direct, design and guiding the metaphor for the overall logo and website to Art directing, guiding, creating stylistic themes and concept treatments for each of the lessons created.