Introducing Keith Detjen

Hello everyone, my name is Keith Detjen and I am an Instructor of Sports & Recreation Management at FPU. This year will be my first year teaching full time; I spent the last 4+ years teaching sport/recreation management courses as an adjunct professor at Southern NH University, Daniel Webster College, New England College, and Pierce. Over these past several year I have taught hybrid classes and utilized e-learning tools in my traditional style classes, but have yet to teach a 100% online class. I have used Blackboard but have not yet used WebCt. I am eager to learn how I can build off of what I have already been doing with e-learning and technology in my classes, as well as learning new forms of e-learning that I can incorporate. I found what Winni and Donna said about the online personas vs "real" personalities interesting, and also struggle with how technology can create an easier, more difficult or somewhere in between platform for learning. Another big issue I think all schools struggle with is writing across the curriculum and how technology, especially e-leaning platforms, can help bridge this gap. I look forward to meeting and working with you all at next week's workshop.