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I am an Instructional Design Specialist at Austin Community College's Rio Grande Campus. Essentially, I am an instructional technologist, helping community college faculty utilize computer and audio-visual technology for teaching.
In addition to graphic & technical illustration, photography and video production, I have experience in scriptwriting, desktop publishing, digital photo and image manipulation, computer-based presentations, computer-based training and HTML publishing.
I'm an Austin, TX, native. After getting my B.A. at Yale University in Art and a short residence in Boston, MA. during the '70's, I was Media Specialist at the University of Texas at Austin Art Department during the 1980's. Later, I became a Research Associate II and was responsible for the computer operations of the UT Art Dept. Visual Resource Collection, a slide collection of over 450,000 art and architecture slides.
After getting my Master's degree in Instructional Technology at U.T., I came to ACC and was Instructional Technology Manager at Riverside Campus and Pinnacle Campus for three years before becoming an ID Specialist.
I'm a single parent seeing to the education of my daughter, Stella, in the finer points of everyday life, popular culture, history, science, art, self-fulfillment and, of course, rock & roll.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I certainly believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life. We will only locate that form of life by seeking it out. While I think it is inevitable that will find evidence of life beyond this planet, I don't think the majority of the world population will be able to process this revelation without a lot of introspection, pain and denial.
Personally, I have come to accept my place in the universe and embrace it. Some others will not. This is unfortunately because pain and violence may ensue. However, I hope I'm wrong. I hope that humankind will be able to rethink itself into a larger picture here the cosmos.
If we receive some sort of contact from an intelligent lifeform, I don't believe we should respond by transmission of a signal or a beacon of information. We should merely passively receive data until it is determined that ramifications of this contact would not be negative, for us or "them".
I chose to respond to the SETI@home request for help because I believe that any endeavor of this type is best done at a grassroots level rather relying on taxpayers money and be subject to political whims. As an artist, I have seen the problems inherent in the funding of arts programs which only serve to infuriate taxpayers and discourage artists from seeking personal truths. |
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