EMPLOYMENT

Boston University; Senior Lecturer in the Center for English Language and Orientation Programs (CELOP ); 1988-present;

· Placement Coordinator (elective courses)

· Special Program for MBA candidates

· Special Program for LM foreign lawyers at BU Law School

· Design of Instructional Media

KWR International - Research, Communications and Consulting Services for the Public and Private Sectors; 1997-present

· Webmaster for kwrintl.com

· Web design for KWR International Advisor

· Consultant for Education and Training

Universidad Espiritu Santo (UEES), Guayaquil, Ecuador; 1994-96

· Founder and Chair of the English Language Department;

· Internet Training Coordinator;

· English Coordinating Committee Chair

Harvard University, Extension School and Harvard Summer School

· Teaching Fellow in English as a Second Language; 1989-1994

· Special Course in American Legal System

· Teacher training and materials development

Instructional Solutions, Educational and Training Consultants

· Founder and President; 1992-present

· Assessment of Language Needs

· Program design, editing and content creation in language texts and teaching materials

· Educational program evaluation, design and administration,

· Implementing Web-based instruction, dis and

· Distance learning

· Blogging in educational institutions

· Web-mastering, HTML and graphic design

· Web-based marketing and public relations

· Standardized test preparation, especially SAT

· Monkeybrain Weblog (in-class teaching tool)

· Sole writer and editor, since founding in 2003

· Member of the Berkman Center Bloggers Group

· Credentialed blogger at the Democratic National Conventions

· Created and presented Blogging 101 at BloggerCon I

EDUCATION

State University of New York at Albany; MS in Education

· Teaching English as a Second Language; June, 1984

Harvard University; AB in Psychology and Social Relations

· Anthropology major; Nov. 1977

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Balancing Priorities in an LLM American Law for Foreign Lawyers Program” presented to the 2004 TESOL Conference in Long Beach, CA, March 28, 2004

“How Blogging Changed my Life and Enriched my Teaching” presented at the Electronic Village at the 2004 TESOL Conference

“Blogging 101” Presented at BloggerCon I at the Harvard Law School, November 2003 (repeated as MIT Intersession class)

“An ASP Solution that Delivers”; Learning Management Systems Review Reports; Training Media Review (TMR) Reports, Spring 2003

“Moshe Meet Mohammed: Defusing Cultural Conflict in the Classroom” paper, presented to the 2003 TESOL Conference in Baltimore, MD March 26, 2003

"Teaching American Culture through Proverbs and Parables" paper to the 2002 TESOL Conference, Salt Lake City, UT April 8, 2002

“Web-based Orientation in an Intensive English Program"; paper, presented to the 1999 TESOL Conference in New York City, March 8, 1999

"Developing Web Components for English Language Instructions"; workshop developed and presented for the CELOP Technology Group Teacher Training program, 9/99, repeated 3/00

"Import-Export E-mail Business Simulation"; chapter in Virtual Connections, Mark Warschauer, ed.; University of Hawaii Press, 1995

Reviews:

Training Media Review: Learning Management Systems Series

“Aspen” “Learning Space” “Saba” 2001-2003

"Forio Business Simulations" TMR; vol 8 no.7 Spring 2001

“Better than Ever” (Flash); TMR; vol 8 no.6 Winter 2001

“Who’s got the Time?” (Dreamweaver Coursebuilder) TMR vol 8 no.5 Fall 2000

“Watch out for the Potholes” (Web CT); Training Media Review vol 8 no.4 Summer 2000

ADDITIONAL AREAS OF INTEREST AND EXPERTISE