About Me

24 April 2006

My name is Todd Slater and I am the Faculty Development Coordinator at Zane State College. I come to this position from the instructional technology perspective.

I earned an AB in Spanish from Ohio University in 1993. After graduating, I took a job teaching English as a Foreign Language in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. I stayed there for 18 months, and then returned to the US to take a position teaching Spanish at Highland High School in Monterey, Virginia. There, I became reacquainted with computers and saw the potential of technology in general and the Internet in particular for connecting our isolated population with others. After four years of teaching, I left to pursue a degree in educational technology.

I returned to Ohio University to take my MEd in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on educational technology. After graduating in 2001, I was fortunate enough to find work as an instructional technologist in Zanesville, Ohio.

In my current position I support faculty in their efforts to become better teachers. I am particularly interested in collaborative, social technologies that help people to learn outside the walls of the classroom. I have a hand in instructional design, distance learning, assessment, and continuous improvement projects. My home on campus is the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CEITL).

Would-be stalkers can follow me on jaiku.

2 Responses to “About Me”

  1. Dan Ireland
    December 12th, 2006 - 3:12 pm

    Hello Todd,

    I am intereted in your work with Scuttle. I am getting ready to test it here with educators in the county when I ran across your posts. Is ScuttlEDU available anywhere for download so I can see your modifications?

    Thanks so much!

    Dan

  2. Tony
    December 31st, 2006 - 7:19 pm

    Hi Todd,
    Thank you fo taking the time to reveal jBrout to us. I didnt understand how tags worked, but I knew that they must be preserved - else all work with them would be in vain.

    At the moment jBrout still seems buggy and a little rough with little help in english, but it embeds the comments, keyword and thumbnail data “in the jpeg”. Digikam will soon do this, but 0.8.2 still uses a pointless external database.

    Now I can continue on my 50 years of family images knowing that future family members will be able to read where and when Grandma was being married in that scanned black & white - regardless of what software they use!

    Thank you for your unique jBrout tag help!

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