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to LTCY 522 I will be your instructor in this course, so let me begin by introducing myself. My name is Dr. Pam Petty and I live in Carthage, Tennessee with my husband of thirty-one years. I have a seventy-five mile commute each way to the great city of Bowling Green. My husband and I have two children; a son who is twenty-seven and a twenty-five year old daughter. Our daughter is a veterinarian in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee and lives with her husband about 3 miles from our home. Our son works for BMG (RCA, Sony, and Arista Records) as a graphic designer - part of the country music industry in Nashville. My background includes literacy education, elementary education, information sciences, child and family studies, and holistic teaching and learning. I have seven years of experience as a public school teacher and received my doctorate from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. This is my eighth year at Western Kentucky University and I am very impressed with the University, the students, and my colleagues here. I have been designing websites for a little over ten years and have about 2,200 web pages on-line at present; many of them can be accessed through my personal homepage: http://www.pampetty.com. I value the role of technology in education and in our society. I look forward to this course because it combines two passions of mine, literacy and technology. My goal is that all students in this course be successful and that you find taking this course to be a rewarding experience. I hope to learn more about you soon. Blackboard offers us several special benefits ... one of those being the ability to meet each other via Student Homepages found under the Communication button. To design your homepage, click Student Tools, then click on Edit Student Homepage. If you have a photo that you would like to include - I do like a face with a name - you can upload a digital file. If you don't have a digital picture of yourself, you can scan a photo and create one. We will also be taking tons of photos of you throughout the year so we can show you how to add one later, if you like. SPEAKING of email ... you will be receiving a lot from me, especially at the beginning of the course. You need to make arrangements to check your email every day. You need to frequently check on-line materials I place there for your benefit. Logging onto Blackboard should also be a routine task. I post messages, resources, grades, discussion board prompts, etc. there: http://ecourses.wku.edu. Each email to me should have the following in the subject line: LTCY 522 to indicate which course you are in. Ok, now that you know a little about me, it is time to know something about the nature of this course and the requirements. From the course homepage (http://www.pampetty.com/522home.htm) you can find the syllabus and many other sources of information for this course. Good luck and I look forward to seeing you soon. Dr. Pam Petty
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