Gender

Male

Location

Las Vegas, NV

Birthday:

August 30

School / Work Affiliation

Advanced Technologies Academy

Website

https://www.atech.org

Favored IM Account

testanley01@gmail.com

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About Me

Years of Teaching: 40 years Teaching Background Clark County School District-Las Vegas, Nevada - 20 years • Part-time- University of Nevada Las Vegas- 2 years • Part-time - College of Southern Nevada – 1 year District 11- Colorado Springs, Colorado – 6 years District 27- Brighton, Colorado - 5 years Portage, Wisconsin - 5 years Greenville Michigan - 5 years Skills Teaching and developing classes Advanced Technologies Academy 2007-20010 Law Program Department chair and teacher Virtual High School- 1999-2007 I was an instrumental part of the team that created CCSD’s Virtual High School. I served as an Instructional designer and teacher, helped organize and develop the virtual high school teacher training, classes, class content, philosophy and program. These classes included video and online classes and were created to be highly interactive online and video programs. Online US Government, World History, Crime and Justice Introduction to Project-based Learning Professional Development - courses developed and taught Philosophy of Online Learning Best Practices -- Creating a Inquiry and Project- based classroom environment Using WebCT Facilitating Online Learning Using Centra – Administrative and Tools Web Development Tools Use Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Captivate Microsoft word, PowerPoint, MovieWorks, PhotoStory 3 Camtasia, Dubit, Audacity Professional Conferences Centra Summits – 1999-2006- Speaker – Using Synchronous tools in online learning, Organizing Training for Centra users, Best Practices of using Centra National School Board Conference – 2002 – Virtual High Schools Online Learning Environment Hawaii International Conference – 2005 – Creating a Blended Learning Environment Virtual Schools Symposium – 2004-06 – Speaker – Using International Resources for online learning, Creating an Interactive online Environment Virtual Schools Symposium- 2010- How to start an online school Professional Organizations and Activities Nevada Online Consortium North American Council for Online Learning Clark County Teachers Union Delegate/Rep Using technology to enhance social studies education committee (chairman) Students Environmental Education in the Desert I-Safe committee Special Projects: Directed and lead the following projects: Global Studies Projects: Environmental Studies – Ocean Acidification – global online conference with schools, scientists from around the world Environmental issues project - video conference with the US State Department’s Oceans and Environment Director, Live online sessions from the Forever Earth Boat (Lake Mead), Project Wet, and UNLV- schools from Canada, US, Australia, Virginia and Clark County Refugee Project with the US State Department European Union Project – Project-Based Learning activity with video conferencing with diplomats for the EU Yucca Mountain Project – Yucca Mountain leadership, Scientists, and worked closely with schools in Arizona that live by a Nuclear powerplant. UNLV-AP video conferencing project – Professors came online to discuss key political topics with AP students Hosted and Created a TV Show from UNLV that discussed key current topics (Fly on the Wall) Video conferencing programs initiated: Center for Disease Control in Atlanta Interview with Senator Harry Reid Set-up district wide video conferencing programs with regions and district leadership