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E D U C A T I O N
Ph.D., 2005, focus: Educational Media and Computers
Arizona State University
College of Education
Tempe, Arizona
BA, 1996, focus: Anthropology
DePaul University
School for New Learning
Chicago, Illinois
P R O F E S S I O N A L
B A C K G R O U N D
DIRECTOR
The Aesthetic Technologies Lab
Ohio University
College of Fine Arts
Athens, OH
November 2004 - presentFounding Director of the Fine Arts Research and Development department of the College of Fine Arts. Responsible for research vision, mission and agenda for the center, as well as for arts programming, visiting and residency artist programs, workshops, and outreach.
ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER / INSTRUCTOR
Institute for New Media Performance Research
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
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The SMARTlab Centre
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
London, UK
April 2000 - presentCo-developer of the SmartSHELL, a suite of integrated online content delivery tools. Technical and facilitation consultant for the Extended Body Project, exploring issues and experimentation in performance across mediated platforms. The course blended traditional educational delivery, with new media technologies, including desktop video conferencing via iVisit, and digital publishing tools (TK3). Core faciliator for the Moroccan CyberCafe Project, linking creative professionals, and academics, to content delivery strategies.
About the SMARTlab Centre
INSTRUCTOR / FACULTY ASSOCIATE
College of Education
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
1998, 1999, 2000, 2002- Connecting to the Gifted (SPE 591) This course offered an array of experiences that illustrated the dynamics of facilitating teaching and learning in a mediated environment, and focused upon strategies to engage gifted learners. (2002)
- Web-Based Educational Systems - Theory and Practice (EMC 598ST) - online & traditional Course for graduate-level educators interested in pedagogical strategies for online educational content delivery, and course management. (Online delivery via the FirstClass Conferencing package) (2000, 2001)
- Gender and Ethnicity Issues in Education [online course]
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge.
This course was designed to thread a variety of philosophical approaches and practical examples of how issues of gender, ethnicity, and technology are addressed in academic policy and practice. (1998, 1999, 2000)
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Institute for Studies in the Arts / College of Fine Arts
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
August 1996 - June 2000Multimedia and interactive designer for the First World Order Project, exploring contemporary manifestations of ancient and folkloric traditions. Work includes CD ROM authoring in Authorware and Director, as well as CD ROM production, and web site development.
About the Institute for Studies in the Arts.
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS DESIGNER AND DEVELOPER
Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education, Chicago, IL
October 1992 - August 1996Worked with artists from a variety of disciplines and cultures to design and develop educational materials that extend the art-making process into the core curriculum. Developed publications providing a background on the artist, discipline, and culture, as well as hands-on creative activities, to give teachers and students a broader arts experience, and practical ideas for cross-disciplinary applications. Also served as liason to Development Office, organizing special events, and annual gala, working with Board committees. Urban Gateways is the 1995 recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
About Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Design Works, Gebenstorf, Switzerland
January 1991 - May 1992Served as primary designer. Projects included computer aided layout and design for newsletters, directories, presentations, database management, scientific graphics, graphic illustration, pre-press and print service coordination.
A C H I E V E M E N T S
- Prized Pieces Award - 1999 -
National Black Programming ConsortiumFor the Negro Ensemble Company CD ROM prototype. Archival strategies for the preservation of the history of Black Theatre in America.
- Award of Excellence - 1996 -
DePaul University - School for New LearningFor Senior Thesis work on the First World Order Resource Site, World Wide Web project, in collaboration with Arizona State University and the Institute for Studies in the Arts.
About DePaul University - The School for New Learning.
P U B L I C A T I O N S,
P R E S E N T A T I O N S
& P R O D U C T I O N S
The Alpha Learner and Cognitive Haunting. (in press) Ph.D. dissertation focuring on the emergence of peer-leaders in text-based online learning communities. March 2005. [view paper]
A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation. (in press) Oxford University Press. Co editor, with Dr. Lizbeth Goodman. Collection of essays focusing on successful practices in arts/technology collaborations. Expected release date, Spring 2004.
- User-based models of action research and the reflexive practice shared by tool-makers: the iVisit model. Detailing social and operational evolution of both a communicative platform (iVisit), and it's social inhabitants. In A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation. Oxford University Press. Submitted August 2003, publication release date, Spring 2004. [view paper]
- Surveying the Scene and Analysing Data on Good Practice and Desired Software. Report of user and developer survey focusing on operational practices between arts professional and industry leaders, related to digital toolmaking, and collaboration. In A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation. Oxford University Press. Submitted August 2002, publication release date, Spring 2004. [view paper]
- The SMARTshell: Connecting Performance Practice to Tools for Connected Learning. with Dr. Lizbeth Goodman, and Dr. Susan Kozel. In A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation. Oxford University Press. Submitted August 2003, publication release date, Spring 2004. [view paper]
- Consultancy: Memoria/Mémoire coordinator of online communication, and visual presence. "Memoria/Mémoire is about how we gain, lose and share memory. It begins as a live web event on September 11, 2002 as a memorial to who and what has been lost over the past year". Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State UniversitySeptember 2002.
- Consultancy: The British Council, Morocco. Workshops for Connected Learning. Designed and led a series of workshops focusing on strategies for successful online collaboration, and online courseware structure. Facilitated on location, with follow-up sessions online. Rabat, Morocco. July, 2002.
- Consultancy: Mediatheque:R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Group (Research Agendas Developed In Creative Arts Labs) and the European Commission. EU-based arts and technology centre initiative. Served as content developer for "best practices" documentation. London, UK; July 2002 . re: R.A.D.I.C.A.L.
- Chronicle of Higher Education. Letter of Response/Colloquy: Do the best-loved professors at many colleges shun distance education? If they do, does that impede the growth of online learning? Online, and print publication, June 14, 2002.
- Consultancy: R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Group (Research Agendas Developed In Creative Arts Labs) and the European Commission. EU-based arts and technology centre initiative. Served as content developer for "best practices" documentation. Amsterdam, NL; July 2001 (ongoing). re: R.A.D.I.C.A.L.
- Putting it Together: Distributed Cognition, Computer Mediated Communication and Dialogic Communities of Learners. A comprehensive examination of nested concepts. (2001).
-Connected Learning Spaces: The Role of Power Dynamics in the Social Construction of Knowledge. Presentation for the Technical University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada; May 2001. [view paper].
- Consultancy: The British Council, Morocco. Developed a web-site outreach base for the SmartSHELL suite of connected learning tools. Installation of package in Casablanca, Fes, and Rabat, Morocco. April, 2001.
- Sharing the Placeless Stage: Connected Places - Transcendent Spaces. Presentation for PostColonialisms/Political Correctnesses Conference sponsored by the University of Nottingham, and the British Council, Morocco. Casablanca, Morocco, April 2001.
- Consultancy: University of Surrey (UK) and Banff Centre for the Arts. CODE ZEBRA. Performance workshop participant, and technical advisor for online community development strategies. London, UK; April 2001. re: CODE ZEBRA.
- Consultancy: R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Group (Research Agendas Developed In Creative Arts Labs) and the European Commission. EU-based arts and technology centre initiative. Kickoff meeting and core facilitator's strategy meeting. Cambridge, UK; April 2001. re: R.A.D.I.C.A.L.
- On Collaboration. Panelist for the Digital Secrets Conference on creative collaborations, and creative collaborators. Presentation of evolutionary process creating the Mirrors & Smoke collaboration. Tempe, AZ; February 2001. re: Digital Secrets.
- Mirrors & Smoke: A non-linear performance in virtual space. A computer-based performance model, in collaboration with dancer/choreographer, Ralph Lemon; and digital media artist, Philip Mallory Jones. Presented at the Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2000.
- Mirrors & Smoke: A non-linear performance in virtual space. A computer-based performance model, in collaboration with dancer/choreographer, Ralph Lemon; and digital media artist, Philip Mallory Jones. Presented at the Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2000.
- Writing in the Ether: a collaborative approach to academic publishing. (co-authored with David Winograd). Presented at AECT 1999.
- Conduit to Conflict: Discourse Analysis of an Asynchronous Online Debate. (co-authored with David Winograd) This paper explores the ways in which perceptions of a real-time classroom exchange were used as a conduit to a grander socially constructed conflict, through the mediation of an asynchronous, or time independent, online listserve. Presented at AECT 1999. [view paper]
- the NEC CD ROM: Archival strategies for the preservation of the history of Black Theatre in America. Arts Education panel, Black Theatre Summit, African Grove Institute of the Arts / National Black Arts Festival, July, 1998.
- Online Course Delivery - Strategies for Increasing Dialogic Performance in the Connected Learning Space. Presented at the Department of Extended Education, Brown-bag luncheon, Arizona State University, September 1999.
- the NEC CD ROM: Archival strategies for the preservation of the history of Black Theatre in America. Arts Education panel, Black Theatre Summit, African Grove Institute of the Arts / National Black Arts Festival, July, 1998.
- Guest Speaker: Cultural Anthropology. Addressed undergraduate Anthropology class at DePaul University. Topic: Visual Ethnography, the First World Order Project, and the Negro Ensemble Company CD ROM project. May, 1998.
- Instructor, Gender and Ethnicity in Education, Spring, 1998, with Dr. Marina McIsaac online course:
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge.
- Equity issues in early exposure to distance education: The MayaQuest potential - May, 1998. Paper exploring the learning outcomes and technology related attitudinal shifts experienced by girls participating in classroom-based online educational adventures.
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc703/papers98/10/miltonfp.html
- Workshop on the First World Order Project - 1998
Presentation with Philip Mallory Jones and Drs. Patricia Zimmerman, & Michelle Mattere at the Athens Film and Video Festival, May, 1998.
- the Negro Ensemble Company CD ROM - 1997/1998
Edutainment product demonstrating an approach toward presenting the story of the founding and development of this pivotal theatre company. view project profile
- First World Order Resource Site - 1998
Website exploring contemporary manifestations of ancient and folkloric traditions.
view project profile
- First World Order Project CD ROM - 1997
Project chronicle for video artist Philip Mallory Jones
view project profile
- Drummin' Event Journal - 1997
Asynchronous netcast of performance event in Miami Beach, Florida.
view project profile (archival - some areas may be disabled)
- Academic Collaboration On-line
Katherine Milton and Jack E. Watson EMC 598, Arizona State University, Spring, 1997.
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598geold97/Spring97/10/collaboration.html
- Distance Education for Mexican-American Migrant Farmworkers
Katherine Milton and Jack E. Watson EMC 598, Arizona State University, Spring, 1997.
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598geold97/Spring97/10/migrant.html
- Language of the Drum, 1997
CD ROM project exploring drum styles and traditions around the world.
view project profile
M E M B E R S H I P S
Phi Delta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
AECT
Latina/o Graduate Student Alliance
References available upon request.
CD ROM Portfolio available upon request.
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