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I am an Information Technologist, IT Manager, Graphic Artist and Filmmaker.  I have won awards for my documentary "Swarm and Destroy" and for the work done at the Confucius Institute at Michigan State University.  I am also an educational technology enthusiast and scholar, completing my Masters of Arts in Educational Technology at Michigan State University with an emphasis in educational uses of video & multimedia.

Web 2.0 selfishness

Monday, 15 June 2009 15:06

On Saturday, June 13th at 12:01 am, Facebook allowed people to create a unique username for their accounts. This is very similar to what many other social networking sites have done, i.e. Flickr, myspace, etc. Facebook up to this point required that you supply a real name as the account identifier, so searching for a singular persona like "Ken Dirkin" worked like a charm, but finding your friend "John Smith" was difficult at best. Seems like a great idea.

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ePortfolio Exhibition

ePortfolio Exhibition
Building an ePortfolio with Joomla!
Noon - 1 pm
Tuesday - May 05, 2009
507 Erickson Hall, MSU

Join me as I exhibit the process of building an ePortfolio using the content management system Joomla!  I'll talk about the process of creating an ePortfolio as well as the technology driving the backend.

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Learning to Walk

Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:46

Watching a 11 month old baby learning to walk is pretty amazing. I don't think anyone who ever shares their child's story with you gets the point across well enough for the first time parent to understand just how amazing. Learning to walk as an 11 month old takes courage, determination, persistance and intuition. Pretty admirable skills in such a little person.

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Beijing Channel Company

The Beijing Channel Company (BCC) is the feeder system for our new College of Education Teacher Education Chinese Language Certification Program. What it allows us to do as the Confucius Institute, is to prep certificate candidates before actually becoming MSU students and teachers.

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PDF of my presentation at the Internationalizing Michigan's Education Conference 2009.

This presentation is the tail end of a presentation that Dr. Dongping Zheng and I gave at our breakout session titled "Using Technology to Expand Globalization and Internationalization of the Curriculum".