I have been given an exciting task. I have been asked to work with iCampus tools created by the good people at MIT (yes, Mass. Institute of Technology) with the hope of using iCampus tools at my campus (GCC). At the same time, I will be taking my experiences and share them with rest of the District with the goal of adding more on-line learning tools to your colleges inventory. A piped piper of iCampus so to speak....
My name is Gary Marrer and I am a CIS instructor at GCC. I have been active in many technology projects at both a campus and district level. I have been active within Ocotillo for the last three years (GCC Chair. and Campus Rep.). I am also one of those persons who like to work on leading edge technologies. Since I teach programming classes, I have a natural love for technology and have always tried to merge technology and learning within my classes. I guess this explains why I am here.
I will be posting in my BLOG (iCampus) my experiences with iCampus and I hope to hear from others at MCCCD who are doing the same. I am not the best at keeping my BLOGs up to date but I am going to post at least one entry per week. Now you know one of my New Years resolutions.
I am still learning about iCampus but I am interested in XTutor and IMOAT for use in CIS classes. I am also looking for another CIS faculty member from a different Campus to partner with on a CIS159 VB I xTutor project. Follow my journey with iCampus in this BLOG. Happy New Year... a couple of days early.
For more info on iCampus link to: icampus.mit.edu
I can be reached at gary.marrer@gcmail.maricopa.edu