Presentations/Projects/Publications:
Finished my term on the Pacific Union school board.
Presented workshops on effective use of the internet in education at the ESF Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers: Inquiry & Action With Technology, Teaching for a Sustainable Future, Atlanta, Georgia and Burlington, Vermont.
As "Structural Project Manager," helped launch phase 1 of "The Watershed Continuum Project," an interactive multimedia learning gateway for professional development in watershed management. Using an open-standards-based structure enabling online-sharable content, the Continuum Project is a collaborative effort involving the U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Forestry and Humboldt State University.
Continued server management for the International Education and Resource Network, including setup of a new Lasso/FileMaker server.
Continued website and web database management for the International Volunteer Programs Association, the Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement, Service Employees International Union Local 790, Education for a Sustainable Future and the Center for a Sustainable Future.
2000
Set up web-based discussion forum server, mailing list server and news server, participated in strategic planning, website redesign and continued online database development for the International Education and Resource Network.
Provided teacher training, website maintenance and web database development for Education for a Sustainable Future and the Center for a Sustainable Future.
Continued website and web database management for the International Volunteer Programs Association, the Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement and Service Employees International Union Local 790.
Launched my own independent consulting business full-time, May 2000.
1999
Coordinated web site design and web database implementation for the International Volunteer Programs Association.
Semifinals judge in the Canon Envirothon.
Nonprofits and Technology Conference, San Francisco: presented on "Tools for Building Nonprofit Gateway Web Sites" and "Databases--Beyond Data Entry."
Continued work on the Service Employees International Union Local 790 web site.
Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement web database design and construction continues.
Presented at the International Education and Resource Network's sixth global conference in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico on the APC Toolkit project.
Attended/helped organize the Association for Progressive Communications global technical directors meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
Worked as school board president to help the Pacific Union School District pass a $2.5 million bond for school construction with an 80% majority of district voters approving.
Nonprofits and Technology Conference, New York: presented on "Online Advocacy."
SFWorks web site design.
Technical coordination of the Association for Progressive Communications' Community and Collaboration Toolkit Project.
1998
Grew a half ton of winter carrots in the back garden.
Service Employees International Union Local 790 web site design and construction.
Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement web database construction.
International Education and Resource Network fifth international conference: presentation/focus group on online discussion forums.
What Works Literacy Partnership web site design and construction.
Management bargaining team member for contract negotiations at Pacific Union School.
Union bargaining team member for contract negotiations (SEIU Local 790) at IGC.
1997
This year I stayed home.
Became a member of the Pacific Union School District Board of Trustees.
Gained first-hand knowledge of repetitive-strain injury.
1996
North American Association for Environmental Education annual conference, Burlingame, California, presented "Internet Ecology II: Homebuilding on the World Wide Web."
Milken Family Foundation National Education Conference, Los Angeles, California: presented two workshops titled "Education Advocacy and the Internet."
1995
I*EARN Teachers Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
North American Association for Environmental Education conference in Portland, Maine: presented a pre-conference workshop titled "Internet Ecology: Will You Survive?" with David Cappaert; presented "Using Computers In Environmental Education" with Rocky Rohwedder
Tel-Ed '95, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: presented a talk on I*EARN in Eastern Europe and coordinated a panel on on-line environmental data sharing in education.
1994
Tel-Ed '94, Albuquerque, New Mexico: panel presentation on "Challenges in Managing Cross-Networked Educational Projects.")
October, traveled to Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia to help launch local I*EARN programs
In September I did a pre-conference workshop on using the internet for environmental education at the North American Association for Environmental Education conference in Portland, Maine,titled "Internet Ecology: Will You Survive?" with David Cappaert. Then I did a presentation with Rocky Rohwedder on our "Using Computers In Environmental Education" publication. It's getting a bit dated... time for a revision
Just a month before that I was in Australia for the I*EARN Teachers Conference. Jet lag? You bet!
I also helped to revise EcoNet's WWW pages, put together EcoNet's Endangered Species page, generally tried to hang on to a steep learning curve -- and help others with theirs, by working on things like simple organizational assessment tools.
