Putting Educational Innovations into Practice.

2011 Summer/Fall GRAPE Camps

Please introduce yourself and tell us a little about yourself. We have a number of people who are doing GRAPE Camp asynchronously and you can communicate with them this way.

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Permalink Reply by Jessica R. Dreistadt on August 11, 2011 at 3:51pm

Hello everyone! My name is Jessica Dreistadt and I am excited to serve as a peer reviewer for MERLOT. The more I use the site, the more I love it! I am an instructor in the business department at DeSales University and am a Ph.D. student in organizational leadership at Eastern University.

Permalink Reply by Cathy Swift on August 11, 2011 at 4:15pm

Hi, Jessica: We're happy to have you. One of our Business Peer Reviewers is Sue McGorry who is also at DeSales. She's been reviewing for several years and is actually an Editorial Board Member. We'll be happy to have you in the business discipline.

Permalink Reply by Yingsoon Goh on August 11, 2011 at 5:22pm

Hello! I am Yingsoon Goh. I am a Mandarin senior lecturer at the MARA University of Technology, Malaysia. I am currently doing my Ph.D. in educational technology. I enjoyed reading the content of MERLOT and am looking forward to the future sessions for more knowledge pertaining to educational technology.

Permalink Reply by Cathy Swift on August 11, 2011 at 8:08pm

Welcome, Yingsoon. I'm so happy to have someone participating from Malaysia. I admire you for going through GRAPE Camp while you are working on your Ph.D. That's hard to do!

Permalink Reply by Tamara Fudge on August 18, 2011 at 8:43am

Hello, everyone, I teach online for Kaplan University's School of Information Systems and Technology. Previously, I taught music at the college/university level, was licensed to sell insurance and investments, and wrote for a local newspaper. I'm looking forward to learning more about what MERLOT has to offer!

PS. The picture is of my Clara, who will turn 20 this October.

Permalink Reply by Cathy Swift on August 18, 2011 at 8:49am

Hi, Tamara. That is quite a switch from music to information systems. We're happy to have you.

A 20 year old cat...Wow! She sure doesn't look it.

Permalink Reply by Tina Burton on September 21, 2011 at 11:42am

Hi Tammy! I am just completing the Grape training myself. Very interesting process for sure :) Glad to see you here as well.

Tina

Permalink Reply by Sandra Toth on September 7, 2011 at 8:23pm

I enjoyed the first session of Grape Camp today. I am looking forward to contributing to the peer review process and planning to add more content to my page to support my work with early childhood teachers.

Permalink Reply by Cathy Swift on September 8, 2011 at 8:03am

Congratulations, Sandra. You happen to be the first to post in Voices for the September GRAPE Camp. A toast with MERLOT to you.

As I mentioned during the session, our Teacher Education Editorial Board will welcome you when you finish. It's a great group to work with.

Permalink Reply by Rose Maria van Zuilen on September 13, 2011 at 4:07pm

Hello Everyone! My official name is Maria van Zuilen, but everyone calls me Rose. I have a mixed background which includes geriatric nursing, sociology and anthropology, instructional design and a PhD in clincial psychology, but for about 15 years now, I have been working with the medical students at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. I am the co-director of our longitudinal medical student curriculum in geriatrics, pain management and palliative care. I am also the director of faculty development for our geriatrics division and an interdisciplinary educator for the Miami Area Geriatric Education Center. I am happy to be part of this group.

Permalink Reply by Cathy Swift on September 13, 2011 at 6:01pm

Wow, Rose, that is great. Some people from California contacted me about forming a Geriatrics Taskforce in MERLOT (Editorial Board to be) so maybe you can encourage them also. That would be great. Right now Geriatrics is in Nursing.

Permalink Reply by Barbara M. Hall on October 30, 2011 at 6:13pm

Greetings,

I am Barb Hall, a member of the Fall GRAPE camp. I am grateful for the opportunity to participate asynchronously in the GRAPE camp. I enjoy looking at the creativity and skill of fellow professors and finding ways to use and contribute to the shared works of our discipline.

I am an instructional design consultant, an Associate Faculty member at Ashford University, and the Teaching Assistant Program Supervisor at Capella University. I live with my husband and four children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

I will be participating in January in the peer review training for Quality Matters, so I think I will have a valuable perspective on contributing and sharing. I look forward to participating in this training with my current course mates as well as those who came before in the summer training.

Cheers,

Barb