Research Interests
* Educational Technologies (Information and Communication
Technologies)
* ICT and Virtual Learning Environments (face-to-face,
hybrid, online distance education)
* Pedagogical Interface Design, Simulations, and Rich
Media
* Critical inquiry, communication theory and practice,
and curriculum integration
* Social, cultural, and ecological studies in education
and the arts
I am an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum
Studies and a faculty associate with the Institute
for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems (ICICS),
Media
and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) at UBC.
I have more than 25 years of teaching experience with over
10 years in K-12 public schools. I have been using ICT within
my own teaching since the early 1980s. From 1993-2002, I
taught at The Ohio State University and held associate faculty
appointments with the Advance
Computing Center for Art and Design and the Center
for Folklife Studies. In 1998, I was honored by OSU
when students selected me for an Outstanding Teaching Award.
My professional research interests have slowly changed over
the years and while I continue to conduct research in the
area of the arts and education my focus for the past ten
years has been on perceptions, practices, and policies of
educational technologies with an emphasis on teacher education
and professional (development) education. I am now researching
the administrative, assessment, communicative, curricular,
pedagogical, and research dimensions associated with the
use of ICT. I am curious about the changing dynamics and
contextual conditions that influence how administrators,
teachers, and students accept, oppose, and/or resist the
use of ICT in face-to-face, hybrid, and online distance
education learning environments.
Currently I am working
on the following research projects with UBC graduate students
and through provincial partnersips. "BC Portfolio Requirements:
ICT and the Power of the Arts," "The
Seeds of Possibility: Integrating ICT into the Teacher Education
Two-year Elementary Program," and "Investigating
Pedagogy and Rich Media Development in Face-to-Face, Hybrid,
and Online Distance Education Learning Environments."
As a Fulbright Award recipient in 2000-2001, I conducted
research about the pedagogical design and development of
emerging technologies and communication spaces in teacher
education. From 1994-2001, I served as the senior editor
of the Journal
of Cultural Research in Art Education and have served
on the editorial board of Studies
in Art Education and Art
Education, publications of the National Art Education
Association. I continue to publish widely about connections
among aesthetics, culture, ecology, education, pedagogy,
and human computer interactions. In 2005, the GreenMuseum.Org
acquired the website about Art & Ecology: Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Curriculum I developed in 1997, for The Getty
Education Institute for the Arts. In 1999-2000, I developed
"Ethnic
Arts: A Means of Intercultural Communication-Online"
a distance education course to study how students mediate
virtual environments while learning and communicating about
ideas and issues of diversity and difference among their
peers. In 2001 - 2002, I authored a teacher professional
development online book/course "Identity
and Place in Contemporary Art." This distance education
book/course was a collaboration between Davis Publication,
Art:21, PBS public television, and Marlboro College. Art:
21 produced "Contemporary
Artists in the Twenty-first Century," a four part videotape
series examining the work of twenty-one contemporary artists.
Education:
Ph.D. - Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
