academics

Instructional Technology

Instructional technology and instructional design are an interesting amalgam of ideas and technologies. Communication between people is as the heart of it all and that is what I enjoy most about it. Below is a list of courses I took at Virginia Tech.

Clinical: This course was developed for graduate students interested in working on 'real' projects. I developed a web site for a drug education class. (Link to drug education course: http://www.chre.vt.edu/~/kredican/EDHL3534MM/temp_index.htm)

Media design: This was an interesting course where we studied how to most effectively communicate using different forms of media. I developed a sixty minute presentation on the history of the Internet.

Principles of instructional design: In this class I studied the foundations of designing instruction. I also designed  web based instruction for teaching people how computers work.

Visual learning: In this class I studied the varied theories and applications of visual communication. I worked on a multimedia project comparing early television advertising with early computer advertising.

Telecommunications: In this class the students were divided into two groups. One group studied technology and the other group designed a module for instruction. At the end of the semester the groups got together and worked out a strategy to implement the module using a technology or technologies.

Electronic publishing:This was an excellent class that really put my knowledge of web and graphic software into hyper-speed. I developed this site as a final project for the class.

 

Philosophy

I got my Bachelors in philosophy at Ferrum College. Though I studied philosophers from Thales to Sartre most of my work was done in the area of continental philosophy. Within this area I studied: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Husserl, Camus and others. You will need Acrobat Reader to view the PDF files below. If you do not have Acrobat Reader you can download it for free by pressing HERE.

 

Heidegger and the everydayness of Dasein : This is a short excerpt from a paper I wrote about Heidegger and his concept of Being-in-the-world.(PDF)

Nietzsche and Nihilism : Another short excerpt, this one about Nietzsche's concept of Nihilism.(PDF)