Barry Jahn
2946 Spring Hollow Ln S
Salem, OR 97302
work: 503.364.1754 | mobile:
503.949.0714
email: barry@jahn.cc
Educational
Background:
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BA/ED, Eastern
Washington State (EWSC, EWU) (1972)
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Masters Degree,
OCE (Oregon College of Education, WOU) (1982)
Special Awards:
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1980 to present:
Presenter at numerous technology/education workshops (NCCE, NCTM,
NSBA, ISTE, and many schools in and out of state).
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1984 to 2002: Supervised student teachers (secondary level) from Western Oregon and Willamette Universities
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1988 – Oregon
K-12 Educator of the Year. Award included a 1-year
sabbatical to design & implement a program integrating
technology across existing curriculums and share strategies with
other school districts.
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2001-2003
– Selected as Intel
Teach to the Future Master teacher
(a program designed to empower educators to integrate technology
into education).
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2003
– NCCE Technology
Educator of the Year.
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2004
– Selected as national team
leader for the HP Technology
for Teaching initiative (overseen by ISTE). Worked with
school Districts (mainly Oregon and Texas) implementing the NETS
(national technology standards for administrators,
teachers and students).
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2006
– Casio Technology
Educator of the Year (designed hybrid F2F/online
course for 5th grade mathematically talented and gifted,
including integrating the Casio virtual graphics calculator).
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2007-8
– Keynote speaker for an eLearning Conference and Opening Day of School
Teaching
Experience:
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1972-1973: Valdez
HS, Valdez, Alaska
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1973-1976: Priest
River HS, Priest River, Idaho
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1976-1983: Dallas
HS, Dallas, Or
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1983-2002: Sprague
HS, Salem, Or (retired in 2002)
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2000-2006:
Assisted in the design and implementation of SK-Online (one
of Oregon’s largest high school distance education providers)
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Designed and
supervised the creation of over 25 online courses (in all
curriculum areas).
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Taught 4
different courses.
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Assisted in
creating and implementing staff development workshops and
ongoing support systems.
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Provided tech
support for the Ucompass/Educator management system (similar to
BlackBoard).
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2004-6 Built and
maintained the SK Online fileserver and Tegrity Video Recording
system.
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2006-2007: OSU K12 Online: Course development (12 courses), Workshops, Staff
Development
Organizations: - Active participant with NCCE, ISTE, NETC, OETC, OOL, NWREL, and
NCTM
Noteworthy
Projects:
- 2008: ODE review committee for new Oregon Educations Technology Standards. Draft will go to state Legislature in December for final approval.
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2008-9:
Designed curriculum for Ed-556 Educational Pedagogy (Technology strand) for George Fox University student teachers. Currently teaching the course.
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2007-present: Researching Web2.0 tools and how to
integrate them into F2F and eLearning environments. I was a Lead
Developer and Reviewer for creating online courses that utilize
these tools. I’m also doing presentations and workshops at
conferences and school districts around the state, including
presentation for Willamette University’s and George Foxes MAT
students.
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2006-2007:
Worked with OSU K12 Online (Director: Tryna Luton )
to integrate new Blackboard features and Web2.0 toolsets into online
instruction. Project manager responsible for developing 12 online
courses. Several titles include Multi Media Communications,
Economics, German, Software Applications and Web Design.
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2006 NCCE:
Presentation titled ‘Desiging Online Courses”.
Demonstrated sample courses, theories of learning and best practices
applied to content design and delivery, building community,
and evaluation.
Demonstrations included:
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2005-present:
Assisted in developing and implementing MSI (Math Scene
Investigation), a unique hybrid F2F-online program for elementary
school mathematically talented and gifted. Our product is currently
seeking copyright approval by the Salem-Keizer School District for
national marketing.
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2005: Team
member: proposal for eLearning Distance Education Framework: RFP#
ED5810154
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2005-present:
Advisory Board Member for YackPack
Education Team (Web2.0 audio communication software). My
demonstration
of Yackpack.
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2004-2006:
Development project with the Education Division of Casio (in
Portland and New Jersey) to create a web-based course for their
newly released ClassPad Virtual Graphics Calculator. The course is
taught nationwide to math educators and students.
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2004: NETC
Online Teachers at Work Symposium in Seattle –
Team Leader for organizing distance education instructors and
developers from around the NW. Collected and analyzed data (best
practices) in the following categories:
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curriculum
development strategies
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instructional
delivery practices
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learning
environments
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effective
teaching practices in the various curriculum areas
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student outcomes
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administrative
issues
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After the
Symposium our team (NWREL) spent many months compiling and
organizing the best practices and posted the results on their
website (See Digital Bridges Project above).
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2004:
Digital
Bridges Project with NWREL and NETC. Assisted in the
content development and review process. Our team of six involved
technology leaders from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
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2003-4:
Odyssey Charter School (hybrid F2F/online charter school in Las
Vegas, Nevada) workshops. Also actively involved in the
development of several other charter schools that had an online
component.
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2002-2005:
Oregon Online Leaders (OOL). This organization included the majority
of the innovative online leaders from around the state. We worked
with different representatives from the State Dept of Education and
played an active role in helping the department begin to define
their role in distance education.
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2000-2005:
SK Online (virtual school within a school District). Worked under
the leadership of MaryJean Sandall. Responsibilities included:
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Selecting and
implementing a Course Management system (Ucompass, similar to
BlackBoard)
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Creating and
managing the development of dozens of courses in all curriculum
areas, including:
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math, science,
English, social studies, music, art, software applications,
computer programming, Spanish, German, business, health (in both
English and Spanish), remedial reading and PE.
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Providing ongoing
staff development for all aspects of teaching in an online
environment.
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2004:
National team leader for the Microsoft-HP
Mentoring Program. Primary responsibilities included working
with teams of administrators and teachers from Oregon and Texas.
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2001-2005:
Developed many useful Online
Resources for Communication, Support and Course
Development. Currently posted on a website for unlimited access to
all educators.
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2001: High
School Technology Literacy Graduation Standards project
under the direction of Dr. Edward Wright, Western Oregon University.
Dr. Wright invited me to design and submit this project as part of
his TIPS technology grant.
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2000:
SuperQuest Workshop presenter to secondary instructors at Western
Oregon University.
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1988-89: US
West Oregon Teacher of the Year with 1-year sabbatical.
Researched and implemented several projects integrating technology
across the curriculum.
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1985-2002:
Developed, implemented and constantly updated the technology plan
for Sprague High School including one of the states leading
student-based tech-support programs.
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1985:
Assisted Salem/Keizer School District formulate their initial
District Technology Plan. This project took nearly six months to
complete and involved input from administrators and instructors
district-wide.
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1978:
Founded A
to Z Technology Solutions. Company goals are to offer
a variety of technology support services including needs and
assessment consultation, software application training,
networking/Internet services, and web/blog design. Over 25 years of
quality service to Willamette Valley clients.
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