Contacts
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Rita
R. Owens
Executive Director for Academic Technology
As Executive Director for Academic Technology, Rita R. Owens advises and
represents the Academic Vice President on technology-related matters.
She provides direction for student information systems as well as for
eTeaching initiatives at Boston College. Currently she leads the
University Core Systems project to replace all student information and
peripheral systems. She also oversees the department of Instructional
Design and eTeaching Services.
She previously directed Academic Technology Services for the University. From 1996-2000 she was the Project Leader for Service Strategies at BC, during which time she led the transformation of BC’s student services by creating the Office of Student Services.
She is a frequent presenter at AACRAO, EDUCAUSE, CUMREC, and the IBM Forum on Student Services as well as the BC representative for the IBM Best Practice Partners in Student Services. She has published several articles on her work as well as appeared on the SCUP/IBM/PBS broadcast, Planning for Student Services, Best Practices for the 21st Century. Rita is also a part-time instructor in the English department, teaching Business Writing. |
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Elizabeth Clark
Director, Instructional Design and eTeaching Services
Beth holds an MSW from Boston University. Before coming to BC, she served
as Director of Communications and Public Relations at Andover Newton Theological
School, developing and managing their web presence and administering their
eLearning program. Beth was also a web development consultant for a variety
of non-profit organizations around the Northeast.
Her professional background also includes federal and state policy analysis,
and planning and program management for human service organizations, which has
driven her interest for integrating technology into social and academic
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Terry Poillucci
Manager, Administrative Services
Terry has been a member of the Boston College Community for the past 23
years. She started her career at Boston College in the Carroll School
of Management, Marketing Department and has worked for The Athletic
Department and Student Affairs Office before taking a position in
Academic Technology Services in May, 2002. Terry Oversees the daily
operations of the Instructional Design and eteaching Services Department
as well as supporting the Associate Academic Vice President,
Technology, She has her AS from Aquinas College in Newton, MA |
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Jeanne Po
Associate Director
Jeanne holds a B.A. in English literature and history from
Saint Edward's University as well as a M.A. in English literature
from Boston College. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the English
department with a focus on Composition and Rhetoric. She has extensive
experience integrating technology in academic settings, working
as an instructional designer, a
graduate web assistant, a graduate technology consultant,
and as a freelance web designer. She
has also taught in the English Department and for AHANA Student
Programs. Jeanne’s
current role as associate director is focused on managing
instructional design staff and offering support to faculty in the
evaluation, selection, implementation and use of instructional
technology in the classroom |
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Helen Healy
Senior Course Management Administrator
Helen holds a B.A. from University of Cork, Ireland and
a diploma in marketing from Buckinghamshire College, London. Before
coming to Boston College, Helen worked as a faculty liaison at
MIT which involved helping faculty and instructors use technology
in the classroom. Helen also worked at Harvard Medical School in
a variety of positions ranging from Postmaster to software instructor.
Helen's current role at Boston College will focus on helping instructors
use technology in the classroom with a specific emphasis on WebCT. |
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D'ondria Maxwell
Course Management Administrator
D’ondria holds a BS in Computer Science from Prairie
View A&M University and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford
University. Prior to joining BC, she acquired several years of industry
experience working for leading technology companies such as IBM,
Nokia and Verizon. With a combination of technical, analytical and
interpersonal skills D’ondria progressed in her career from
pure software development to systems analysis and design then ultimately
into project management. A personal interest in technology in education
led her to her current role in IDES where she is managing the migration
of WebCT Campus Edition to Vista. |
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Sarah Castricum
Instructional Designer
Sarah holds a BA in History from the University of Durham, UK and PhD in
Theology from Boston College. Her interests in pedagogy and technology
grew out of her experience as a teaching fellow and as a research assistant,
helping to make resources for the study of church history available in
online databases. She worked in RITS for two years as a Graduate Web Assistant
before joining the staff full-time. The primary focus of her current role
is project management, assisting faculty in the development of web-related
tools to enhance teaching. |
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Tim
Lindgren
Instructional Designer
Tim Lindgren holds a B.A.
in English from Wheaton College (IL) and is currently finishing
his PhD in the English department at Boston College. His dissertation
research focuses on blogging and how writers use new media to
help foster a deeper sense of place. He has presented papers on
technology and pedagogy at the Computers and Writing Conference,
the International Conference on Teaching and Learning, and the
Conference on College Composition and Communication. His published
essays have appeared in Kairos:
A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (Fall
2005), Coming into Contact: New Essays in Ecocritical Theory
and Practice (2006), and Locations of Composition (2006). Before joining IDeS as a full-time instructional
designer, Tim worked for three years as a Graduate Web Assistant
during which he assisted faculty with WebCT and web design and
developed websites using PHP/MySQL and Drupal.
His ongoing interests include blogging in education, open source
software, user experience, and locative media. |
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Diane Sito
Instructional Design Consultant, A&S Honors Program
As an Instructional Design Consultant for the Boston College A&S Honors Program, Diane manages the implementation of the Honors Multimedia Repository and other projects that have grown out of websites such as Variations on a Theme by Mary Shelley. She also provides consultations for Honors faculty in creating WebCT courses. Diane has joined Instructional Work Group to support Boston College's iTunes University pilot. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Boston College where she studied English and Italian. While pursuing an M.Ed. at the University of Notre Dame, Diane taught high school English and, ever since, has sought ways to incorporate instructional technologies in the classroom to enhance student learning. |
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Bill Porter
Instructional Web Producer
Bill holds a BFA in Computer Arts and Animation from UMass Amherst. He came to BC from Simmons College where he worked as a Media Specialist. Bill also has professional experience in video production, web design and animation. His current role as Instructional Web Producer is focused on designing and building web and multimedia projects for the academic community at BC. |
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Jamie Walker
Instructional Web Developer
As a multimedia developer Jamie has spent the last 10 years immersed in the production of CD ROM, video, and web applications for companies in various industries, including health care, publishing, hi tech, and education. His involvement has been inclusive, from overseeing day to day operations, the solicitation of new work, and the building of project specifications to all aspects of project development and production. For the last 4 years his focus has been the development of database driven web sites and web applications using asp, asp.net, php, and Cold Fusion as the head of his own consulting business, Highrock Interactive. He holds a BA in Geology from Boston University and has toured internationally with the roots-rock band Swinging Steaks. |
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Scott Kinder
Academic Technologist
Scott holds a B.S. degree in Mass Communications from
Miami University of Ohio. He has been on staff at Boston College since
1983, and teaching WWW and Digital Media as an Adjunct in BC's Communications
Department for three years. Scott is acting CEO of a software development
firm that produces tools for qualitative data analysis. Besides his teaching,
Scott currently manages several computer and media labs, and consults with
faculty regarding multimedia content creation and administering surveys
over the web. |
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Lisa Taddeo
eTeaching Resource Consultant, IML
As a graduate of Cambridge's Youville Hospital School of Nursing, Lisa's career began in the medical field where she worked as a License Practical Nurse starting in 1981. Lisa has been a member of the BC community since 1986 when she joined Information Technology. She has had a number of positions in IT over the years, including Administrative Assistant for MIS, Office Coordinator in IPS and Technical Support Advisor for the IML. She currently holds the position of eTeaching Resource Consultant for the IDES department. In this role, Lisa is responsible for the Windows and Macintosh computer labs in the O'Neill Library, Campion and Gasson buildings. In addition, Lisa is primary contact for setting up Video Conferencing. |
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David Alkire
Graduate Student Assistant Developer
David holds a BA in philosophy, BS in Mathematics, BSCE in computer engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and is currently a masters student in philosophy here at BC. As an Assistant Web Developer, David works closely with the department's web developer and instructional designers to plan and deploy web-based solutions based on the needs of the teaching community. Besides working and studying he stays busy playing basketball several times a week.
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Cristina Joy
Graduate Assistant
Cristina holds a B.A. in English from Boston College. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in English while working as a Graduate Web Assistant in IDeS at Boston College. Cristina joined IDeS in 2004 as an undergraduate work study where she gained valuable experience in the department. As a GWA, Cristina works primarily with WebCT course development and instructional design projects. |
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Nirmal Trivedi
Graduate Assistant
Nirmal Trivedi holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine
(CA) and is currently completing a PhD in the English department at
Boston College. His dissertation explores how technological developments
allow writers to represent reality particularly in the context of war.
Before joining IDeS as a Graduate Web Assistant, Nirmal taught courses
in the English Department ranging from composition to world literature. |
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Jason Phillips
Graduate Support Services Manager
Jason holds a B.A. in philosophy with a minor in German from The University of South Carolina and is currently pursuing a masters in philosophy at BC. As the Support Services Manager for the Interactive Multimedia Lab, Jason works with the eTeaching Resource Consultant of the IML to manage the technology classrooms and their server, and additionally works with members of the department on various other projects. |
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Güliz Turgut
Graduate Assistant
Guliz holds a B.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University, Turkey. Upon obtaining her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction at Lynch School of Education, she continues to pursue her education in PhD program in Curriculum and Instruction at Boston College. As a GWA, she is working with IDeS staff in instructional design projects and supporting faculty with WebCT. Due to her dual interests in language teaching and technology, she focuses on incorporating technology into curriculum and instruction to enhance language teaching and learning opportunities for teachers and language learners |
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Will Schenck
Graduate Assistant
William received a BA in History from Boston College in 1999, a Masters in French Medieval Literature and Civilization from the University of Paris III in 2005, and is now finishing his PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures at Boston College. Before joining IDeS as a graduate assistant in the summer of 2007, William taught Italian and French as a teaching fellow in the Romance Languages department, where he developed a strong interest in using technology to enhance teaching and learning. He is currently working with the Connell School of Nursing to develop
web resources for their Palliative Care Program.
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Faculty Moderators
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Kit
Baum
Faculty Moderator
Christopher F (Kit) Baum is a faculty moderator of the Faculty
Micro Resource Center and associate professor of economics. He
joined BC in 1977 after earning his Ph.D. at the University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor. Baum has served on strategic planning committees,
academic computing committees, and the GORITS committee that proposed
the creation of Academic Technology Services. With Michael Connolly,
Baum proposed the Graduate Technology Assistant program, administered
from the FMRC and the progenitor of the Technology Consultant program.
He was appointed to oversee the creation of the Graduate Statistical
Assistant program, now a part of Research Services. Baum has managed
the development of technology resources for the Department of Economics
for many years and has provided the technical resources for the
Library's Virtual Data Center web-based access to statistical data
sets. He is currently writing a book on the use of the Stata statistical
package in applied microeconomic research. He teaches econometrics
at the undergraduate and graduate levels and co-directs the interdisciplinary
Minor in Scientific Computation in A&S. |
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M.J. Connolly
Faculty Moderator |
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Richard
Jenson
Faculty Moderator
Richard holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University
of Illinois, and has been a faculty member in BC's Department of
Mathematics for over 25 years. His fields of interest include algebraic
coding theory, combinatorics and computer science. As one of the
original moderators of the Faculty Microcomputer Resource Center
(FMRC), he has provided support for faculty members interested
in exploring technological alternatives in both their research
and teaching for nearly 20 years. Richard has helped establish
and supervise the original GTA (Graduate Technology Assistant)
program which has since morphed into today's TC (Technology Consultant)
program providing distributed, departmental tech support for faculty.
In addition, he has served on several faculty advocacy committees
over the years acting as a voice for faculty technology concerns. |
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