Geoffrey B. Cain

Resume

Employment

7-09 to Present	Director, Instructional Design and Training, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA I facilitate faculty workshops, support My CR (Sakai), design workshop curricula and create instructional materials for faculty. I also consult one-one-one with faculty for curriculum design, educational technology, and distance learning.
2-06 to 7-09	English Instructor, Tacoma Community College I taught English 95, a developmental college composition and reading class. I also created the hybrid online version of this class for the college.
2-06 to 7-09	Instructional Designer-Faculty Trainer, Tacoma Community College I taught faculty technology workshops, supported Blackboard, designed workshop curriculum and created instructional materials for faculty. I also consulted one-one-one with faculty for curriculum design, educational technology, and distance learning.
7-05 to 1-06	Instructional Technology Consultant (temp), CSU, Monterey Bay I taught faculty technology workshops, supported Blackboard, designed workshop curriculum and created instructional materials for the Center for Academic Technologies.
6 -05 to 12-05	English Instructor, Hartnell College I taught English 1A, college composition and reading and English 1B, literature and composition.
2-04 to 1-05	English Instructor, Monterey Peninsula College I taught Eng. 300 and tutored one-on-one in the English and Study Skills Center. I developed the Online Writing Lab for MPC.
9-02 to 1-05	Laboratory Instructional Assistant, Cabrillo College I taught English 100L (group tutoring lab), tutored one-on-one, and via the online writing lab (OWL).
6-02 to 8-02	Summer School Teacher, Soledad & Monterey I taught summer school for 4th and 5th grades combined for Soledad Unified School District. Developed and created lesson plans, curriculum, and portfolio assessments.
10-00 to 9-01	Quality Assurance Manager, Editorial Project Management, Harcourt e-Learning I performed quality assurance checks on distance learning courses (copy editing, HTML editing, and overseeing the fixes for courses). My duties quickly expanded into project management for over a dozen courses, over-seeing the development of online courses and their conversion in to multiple learning management systems (i.e., WebCT and Blackboard).
5-00 to 9-01	Consultant, Cal State Teach, CSU Monterey Bay I was hired as a copy editor and faculty trainer. I assisted in the development of online and hard-copy manuals and training materials. I am a co-author of the CalState Teach online technical manual.
9-98 to 5-00	Tutor Trainer, Cal-SOAP Worked as a consultant for Cal-SOAP (California Student Opportunity and Access Program). Each semester I presented 2-3 seminars on tutoring for tutors new to the Cal-SOAP program which targets at-risk youth in the Junior High and High Schools.
8-97 to 5-00	Lab Teaching Assistant, Santa Barbara City College My duties included; tutor training and supervision, training faculty in the Computer Aided Instruction Lab (in MS Word, DIWE, T-force 100, and general lab procedures), developing web sites for the LRC, assisting students and tutors in the labs. I also wrote manuals, kept class-related records, and developed promotional materials for the LRC and other departments. I was the LRC contact for Distance Learning and lead web developer for the Online Education Orientation web page.
3-93 to 6-97	Special Education Aide, La Cumbre Middle School Assisted teacher in Special Ed. classroom, maintained student Special Ed. records, assisted Special Ed. students in computer lab.
9-91 to 1-93	Substitute Teacher, San Francisco USD Implemented lesson plans in a wide variety of k-12 classroom settings.

Professional Organizations

Learning Technology Task Force
International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
Alliance for Computers and Writing (ACW)

Publications

Creating Community With Blogs

WiAOC Conference, Building Bridges in Cyberspace, Nov. 2005

Review of Hubert Dreyfus' book On the Internet

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, Univ. of Washington, Mar. 1, 2004

The Art of Group Work: Creating meaningful
collaboration in online learning

Teaching Online in Higher Education, School of Arts and Sciences,
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Nov. 10, 2003

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