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Fall 2021
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Distance Learning and Classroom, Sylvania Campus.
PCC Sylvania Campus
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Distance Learning and Classroom, Sylvania Campus.
I am a full-time instructor of web design & development courses at Portland Community College's beautiful Sylvania campus.
I have over 27 years of experience in web site design and development as an educator, user experience and user interface designer and consultant. I have years of work experience in the corporate sector which includes designing web-based outage monitoring and process automation for Charter/Spectrum and just before joining PCC, working as the Community Manager and as a Technical Lead at Janrain (acquired by Akamai). I strive to bring my professional experience into the classroom to prepare students for careers outside of PCC, by providing real-world examples in my coursework.
Read reviews from students of my courses at ratemyprofessors.com.
As an instructor of web development in a career technical education program, my aim is to motivate students to become problem-solvers and life-long learners in web technologies.
I incorporate aspects of Case Method teaching in my courses. In short:
TBD.
A: Create a project. When that's done, do another one. Repeat this process constantly until you're so good at this, people want to pay you to do this for a living and you do it for 40+ hours per week and you become even greater at it. Then, pass on this secret "work hard at something to become better at it" method to others.
Q: I see you use [technology] at PCC. Can we contact you regarding our amazing platform which does the same thing but differently? Signed, Account Manager at [company].A: No.
I'm not a decision maker and I assure you, if we're shopping for technologies, we'll have heard of you and we'll call you. ;)
Q: How do I audit one of your courses?A: PCC requires that all individuals auditing courses first apply to become a PCC student (why wait... start now!), and then register and pay for the course in question. In the first week of class, students then write to their instructor to let them know that they wish to take the course as an audit rather than as a letter grade. This is done for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is for the safety and the privacy of all the students (including audit students) in the course. Any requests I receive to circumvent this college requirement will be denied without exceptions, so please do not ask.
For anyone wishing to audit one of my courses which has prerequisite courses, write to me and we can discuss whether you have the skills necessary to receive an override.
Q: I got a prereq override! Does this mean I technically passed that course?A: If you do receive an override of a prereq course, please understand that this is not the same as having received credit for the prerequisite course. If you do receive a prerequisite override and you decide later to complete a degree or certificate, you will most likely need to receive a course substitution to make up the credits or simply take that course to satisfy the requirements of the degree or certificate. Additionally, these overrides are at the discretion of that particular instructor, so if an instructor provides you with an override, there is no guarantee that a different instructor will honor the same overriden prereq course.