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**ED 527 OBB Authoring Systems/Instructional Design**

We will design and construct lessons, tutorials, and presentations for the classroom using an assortment of Web 2.0 tools along with authoring software. Teachers will use numerous strategies to ensure that learning is an active, personally relevant, meaningful process through strategies such as constructivism, cooperative learning, identifying student needs and talents, while using a variety of assessment techniques.

The following software may be utilized: PowerPoint, Keynotes, MS Word, Pages, Moodle, Wiki pages, paint programs, brainstorming applications, image and audio/recording programs, animation applications, screen capture software, and Blackboard. Ways to incorporate multimedia will also be explored and various design methodology will be examined.

 Shamokin Area School District Instructional Technology Specialist Subject Area Coordinator - BCITPractical Arts National Honor Society Adviser Computer Teacher - ext: 3625 cathy.dowd@wilkes.edu cdowd@indians.k12.pa.us
 * //Cathy Wright Dowd //**

I have been an adjunct faculty member of Wilkes University since 2005. I teach technology courses in the Graduate Education Department for the Classroom Technology master's program. I received my first Bachelor's Degree in Business/Accounting and my second degree in Elementary Education ten years later. My Master's of Science degree is in Instructional Technology (//education track//) and I received my Instructional Technology Specialist Certificate in 2006. All of my education was completed at Bloomsburg University.

I am the Instructional Technology Specialist for the school district. I was the CFF (//Classrooms for the Future//) Coach for four years, EETT coach for one year, and I am currently involved with PIIC. I have been teaching technology for 27 years. I live in the Elysburg area with my husband, and retired banker, Bill. We have two terrific grown children. My son currently lives in New York with his wife and three wonderful grandchildren. My daughter, Stacy, lives in the Bloomsburg area with my grand-doggers Riley Jean -- a chocolate lab with laughing eyes and her newly adopted sister, Emma Madison -- a yellow lab puppy with more energy than you can imagine.