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to LTCY 519 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 works as a Graphic Designer for BMG in Nashville; and a twenty-five year old daughter who just graduated from the University of Tennessee's Veterinary School of Medicine and married on June 9, 2007. We have a rescued Maine Coon cat named "BobKitty" and a rescued Chihuahua named "Tater." My background includes literacy education, elementary education, information sciences, child and family studies, and holistic teaching and learning. I have seven years experience as a public school teacher (six/2nd grade; one/1st grade) and three years experience as an instructor at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee. My doctorate is 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. 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 (Student Roster). 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. 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. We will use Blackboard for discussions (Discussion Board), student pages (Student Roster), uploading assignments (Assignments), announcements, and posting scores (Grades): https://ecourses.wku.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp . Now that you know a little about me, it is time to know something about the nature of this course and the requirements. Click here to go to the LTCY 519 homepage: http://www.pampetty.com/519home.htm. From there you can find the syllabus and many other sources of information for this course. Good luck and I look forward to working with you this semester. Dr. Petty
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