The Many Faces of OTC '12 May. 2012 | Page 12

Ingrid Kelly is Professor of English at the College of Marin, where she teaches online and off. She created the College's Online Writing Center (OWC) in Blackboard, and subsequently, she migrated it to Moodle. She earned her M.A. in Literature/Composition/Post-Secondary Reading from San Francisco State University and she has received numerous certificates for her online training. She recently received an Educational Excellence Innovation Fund Award for her work on the OWC.

Michael Kieley has advanced degrees in architecture, fine art, and psychology. He teaches "Visual Thinking: A Course in Contemporary Art & Enhanced Creativity," at Loyola Marymount University (www.learnvisualthinking.com). He is designing a multimedia ”book” titled, “A Visual Manual for Enhanced Creativity,” using the recently released iBooks Author app. Rethinking his pedagogy after studying numerous online technologies, he began to reshape his course, sorting face-to-face learning experiences from what might better be accomplished online.

Alisa Klinger has been pursuing her passion for texts, technology and teaching in computer-assisted classrooms and online for over a dozen years at colleges and universities in Toronto, Arizona, and California. Presently, she is the coordinator of Distance Education and the Online Writing Center at the College of Marin, where she teaches English. She received her doctorate in English from UC Berkeley and her Teaching English As A Second Language Certificate from UC Santa Barbara Extension. She has earned numerous certificates related to online pedagogy and technology from the California Virtual Campus, @ONE and Remote Learner.