Teaching

After 4 years of continually teaching Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters I have a cumulative mean average score of 5.7 on a 1-6 scale. My strengths tend to be knowledge and atmosphere. At Southeastern in my department the cut-off score for declaring Excellence in Teaching for Tenure and promotion is a 5.4. I work for numerous districts and other agencies as a trainer and instructor and am honored to have been named Post-Secondary Teacher of the Year by the ISTE Louisiana affiliate, Louisiana Computer Using Educators. I have trained many folks in Latin America and am happy to continue to do so. To see my last semester's SOTS, click below. All of my courses for this semester were online.

Summer 2009 Student Opinion of Teaching

I have designed one degree, several courses at different levels, and numerous sequences of online instruction for different environments. Perhaps my most prestigious current project is the research contract funded development of three units of online curriculum using content from A&E networks (primarily the history channel) to be integrated with the Hotchalk online CMS system. This curriculum will then be used as part of a study to examine the impact of curriculum management systems and electronic textbooks. This follows my involvement with NBC, Hotchalk and MIT Media Lab on NBC's iCue. I use a huge variety of technologies to teach at a distance and am currently overseeing Southeastern's presence on I-Tunes U.

Curriculum Build Wiki

This is the wiki to organize all of my authors as we construct the curriculum. The curriculum is 90% done and now we are waiting on my interface folks.

One of My Course Wikis from the Summer

I was traveling all Summer. I use a mixture of Blackboard, Wikis, Podcasts and Yugma for distance education. This is the class wiki.

My Web Site for Teaching Curriculum and Content Management Systems

I use this site as a central access point for the content and curriculum management systems I am teaching students. The exact loadout varies but I usually have Moodle, Joomla, and one or two other dynamic systems set-up for us to play with..

Drhancock.org

For simple things, I like to use Microsoft Agent scripting for tutorials. Agent had great potential for quickie animation, but Microsoft never figured out that you don't like some talking to you WHILE you work. At other times, its ok. :)

Downloadable Animated Word Tutorial Using Microsoft Agent Scripting

I have been active in virtual worlds for many years and do a great deal of teaching and research in the virtual environment. here is a screenshot of my second-life alter-ego Dr. Knelstrom. Ever notice how we all seem thinner in second-life?

Along with Dr. Becky Sue Parton (ed-tech), Dr. Jeffery Oescher (ed-research), and Dr. Mindy Crain-Dorough (ed-research) and our graduate students, we formed the Advanced Learning Technologies Research Group (ALT-RG). This is a communal endeavor designed to allow us to leverage our individual skills and advance each other's research agendas. Currently, all five of my doctoral candidates (I impose a limit of five as a quality measure) are active in publishing and presenting as members of ALT-RG. I see mentoring as a very important responsibility and I truly believe that it is the mentoring process more than any other that determines the success of a doctoral candidate. The picture to the left is of my senior candidate Mihir and his wife Kiran.