Mentor Profiles

 

Wendy Bass Keer Wendy is an associate professor at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) in the field of child development and education. Along with being the Distance Education Coordinator for ELAC, Wendy also teaches child development courses online. She earned her BA in Psychology from University of Arizona, MA in Special Education from Cal State Northridge and Ph.D. in Education from UCLA.

Kathy Fransham Kathy has served as a technology trainer at Foothill College since 1989. Kathy coordinates, offers, and supports training courses and events, writes training and user documentation, and provides user support to faculty in the Consortium. Additionally, Kathy assists the Etudes development team with Quality Assurance testing, especially on the Mac, and a major contributor in the design of support documents, user guides, and training materials. Kathy has a Master's degree in Instructional Technology from San Jose State University.

Norah Glover Norah has been teaching anthropology courses in the California Community College system for 8 years and is presently teaching online courses for both the College of the Siskiyous and Foothill College. She has been using Etudes for both her online courses and as a learning enhancement for her face-to-face courses. A veteran online teacher, Norah is one of the first few instructors who went live with a fully-online class with Etudes. Norah has a Master’s Degree in Anthropology from CSU- Fullerton, and Education, with an Option in Online Teaching and Learning from CSU-Hayward.

Marion Heyn Marion Heyn (rhymes with "nine"), Professor of English at Los Angeles Valley College, teaches writing, not literature. She has been teaching the art and craft of writing for nearly 20 years, always with the computer in the picture. At first it was merely showing students how to use word processing programs to do their assignments. Soon she developed Kung Fu English, which involved her comp classes in a Web-based international negotiation simulation, and that led her to learn more about how IT could energize learning. After 13 courses at the doctoral level and a 5-year stint as the first director of Virtual Valley, LAVC's online program, Marion now teaches totally online, seeing this mode as the perfect vehicle for teaching reading and writing.

Vivian Varela Vivian earned her MA in Sociology at CSU, Bakersfield and MS in Education-Online Teaching and Learning at CSU, Hayward. She is currently the Director of Distance Education at Mendocino College and an adjunct instructor (Sociology) online at Mendocino College, Taft College and College of Alameda. Before starting her new job at Mendocino College in August 2007, Vivian provided tech support for the distance learning program at Taft College along with writing & maintaining the distance learning website.

 

 

 

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