Alan H Levine

Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 8/87 - 5/92
MS Geology (1989): Ash-flow Zones of the Bishop Tuff: Detailed Mapping with Landsat TM Data.

University of Delaware Newark, DE 9/81 - 8/86
BS Geology, minor in Computer Science.

Instructional Technologist. Maricopa Center For Learning & Instruction, Maricopa County Community College District. 7/95 - present.
Lead technology developer for center that supports faculty development to all 10 Maricopa Community Colleges. General evangelist for meaningful uses of technology in learning. Investigates new technologies such as streaming media, RSS, weblogs, wikis, and social software. Developed interactive content and design, plus event services including online event registration for web server since December 1993 at <www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/> Example projects include Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) (www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/), online grants application and review system (www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learngrant/), Hero's Journey www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/journey/ plus others listed at www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/. Multimedia production of instructional applications such as Learning English Electronically (CD-ROM), Negative Reinforcement University (CD-ROM; Web/Shockwave), Research Methods (CD-ROM; Web). Open-source published software includes Feed2JS jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/ and the jClicker slide show www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/jclicker/ template.

Provides leadership in issues of technology planning and online learning for Ocotillo www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/ initiative including planning for major activities such as Ocotillo Retreats, year end events for 80-200+ Maricopa faculty, staff, and administrators. Planned and coordinate faculty development events such as Dialogue Days (www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/dd/). Provide consulting, workshops, and resources for faculty and staff. Cultivate alliances with external organizations such as League for Innovation, New Media Consortium, and TLTGroup. Awarded 6-month professional Sabbatical (2000) including projects and site visits dommy.com/az2nzau/ to Northern Arizona, New Zealand, and Australia.

Interim Director. Maricopa Center For Learning & Instruction, Maricopa County Community College District. 1/95 - 6/95.
In addition to technical duties, provided leadership and budgetary responsibility for center during Director's sabbatical.

Programmer Analyst Instructional Systems. Maricopa Center For Learning & Instruction, Maricopa County Community College District. 5/92-1/95.
Created multimedia learning materials working with faculty from several college sites using HyperCard and Toolbook. Researched and promoted early internet resources, installed experimental Gopher server, and launched the first web server in the Maricopa system (1993). Created Writing HTML tutorial www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/ (1994) still in use today.

Experienced in software includes Adobe (PhotoShop, Macromedia (Director, Flash, Breeze) Streaming Media (QuickTime, Real, Windows Media), web design (HTML, CSS, XML, XHTML), programming/scripting (JavaScript, Perl, PHP), database development (mySQL) in Macintosh, Windows, and Unix/Linux environments. Beta tester for first version of Macromedia Shockwave (1995), Macromedia Director 7.0 (1999), Groove 3D (1999).

Computer Animation I (ART184AA)
Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998 at Scottsdale Community College. CD-ROM available of class materials/lessons developed and student projects.

Innovation of the Year
District Office Winner (2003) for Maricopa Learning eXchange.

Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation Employee Recognition Award
Student scholarship awarded in honor of this recognition (May, 2002)

Macromedia People's Choice Awards
Negative Reinforcement University nominated at 1997 Macromedia International Users Conference

Regular publication of CogDogBlog instructional technology weblog at http://cogdogblog.com/ (April 2003 - present).

Editor and writer for the Labyrinth-Forum (www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/labyforum) internal and web publication (1992-2001), mcli Forum www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/forum (2001-2005) and www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/iforum (2005-present).

Problem-Based Learning: Engaging Students Actively in Meaningful Learning Maria Harper-Marinick and Alan Levine, NEA Advocate "Thriving in Academe", December 2002, www.nea.org/he/advo02/advo1202/front.html

randomAlan columns (1998-2000) published online by the Director-Online User Group www.director-online.com

Levine, A. (1997) Not Under Construction, Under Evolution!, The Journal of Electronic Publishing, December 1997. www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/homepage.html

Levine, A. (1997) "Support for Multimedia Development", The EDUTECH Report May 1997, 11 (2): 6-7.

Current list of presentations available at http://cogdogblog.com/best/

Beyond the Blog: Ready For Prime Time (January 2006) EDUCAUSE ELI Annual Conference (San Diego) co-presented with Brian Lamb http://fishtacos.notlong.com/

Collaboration Tools: What's Out There? (August 2005) Seminars in Academic Computing (Aspen) Session co-led with Stephen Downes and Philip Long. http://cogdog.wikispaces.org/CollabTools

Living @ the Crossroads of IT & ID (July 2005) EDUCAUSE Instructional Technology Leadership Program 2005 (Penn State University). http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/itl05/

More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing with Weblogs (June 2005) NMC 2005 Summer Conference (Honolulu). http://cat-diaries.blogspot.com/

Harry Mudd, Small Pieces, and that Unevenly Distributed Future (April 2005) TCC 2005 Online Conference Keynote Presentation. http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/wiki?HarryMudd

Jackalopes, Ocotillos, Learning eXchanges, RSS, and Other Arizona Learning Technology Curiosities (March 2005) presentation for MIT Crosswalk Seminar (Cambridge). http://realgar.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/wiki?CrossTalk

Rip Mix Learn (November 2004) Unitec Symposium: Conversations in Teaching and Learning (Auckland, NZ) http://realgar.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/wiki?RipMixLearn

Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, Trackback, and Related Technologies (October 2004) Pre-conference workshop for the EDUCAUSE 2004 Conference (Denver) co-presented with Brian Lamb. http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/wiki?ObjectsEducause04

Small Technologies Loosely Joined: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (June 2004) co=presented with Brian Lamb and D'Arcy Norman, NMC 2004 Summer Conference (Vancouver). http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SmallPiecesLooselyJoined

Mysteries Revealed! Inside the Maricopa Learning eXchange (March 2004) NMC 2004 Spring Online Conference. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc0304/

Maricopa Learning eXchange... Building an Innovation Collection (with a bit of Competition and Bribery) (October 2003), League for Innovation CIT (Milwaukee) http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/league2003/mlx.html

Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Weblogs, and Trackback (October 2003), co-presented with Brian Lamb and D'Arcy Norman, NMC Online Conference. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc1003/

Earlier presentations listed at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/