MARK C. GEARY
204 NE 9th
Street
(605)-270-3261
Mark.Geary
( at ) dsu.edu
EDUCATION:
May 11
Completed 8 day Balanced Leadership workshop with McREL trainers
for 3hrs graduate credit at USD.
Jan
06
Completed post-dissertation
graduate courses in reading comprehension and diagnostics at the University of
Central Florida.
Research focus is on reading and writing interventions that maximize use of technology,
particularly in the area of visual literacy and non-linguistic
representations. Also
completed State of Ohio instructor workshops for State Institute for
Reading Intervention (SIRI) in Adolescent Literacy and
Diagnostics.
Aug
03
Completed
dissertation in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Central Florida
with emphasis on student behavior, literacy, instructional technology and
distance learning.
Coursework has included work in distance learning as well as design, creation
and heuristic evaluation of academic software programs and distributed learning
delivery systems. Dissertation focused on the interrelationship of Long-Dzuiban Reactive Behavior Patterns, reading comprehension
and web usability at Cincinnati Virtual High School.
Completed 5 days of Seminole County Teachers E-Reader
training.
Completed 5 days
training in Phono-Graphix literacy initiative.
Completed 8 days
training in Macromedia Flash MX and action script.
August
89
Master's Degree in Family Counseling and
Human Development at the University of Central Florida. Coursework focused
on the uses of multiple intelligences in teaching and learning.
May
84
Bachelor of Arts
degree in Liberal Studies and Psychology, Minor in Business at University of
Central Florida.
Hold
Peer Reviewed PUBLICATIONS:
Geary, Mark. (2011) Book Chapter in Progress Content Neutral Games for Cases on Digital Game Based Learning: Methods, Models and Strategies
Geary, Mark. (2011) Book Chapter (7): Technology Connecting Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment from Teaching Inclusively in Higher Education by Moira & Brown. Information Age Publishers
Geary, Mark. (2010) Technology in
Schools.
Florida Educational Leadership, Spring
2010, p 62-64
Geary, Mark (2010)
The Cellphone Inservice.
Florida
Educational Leadership. Spring 2010, p 41-43
Geary, Mark. (2009) Creating a Movie in WebKinz Studio.
Geary, Mark. (2008) Supporting Cell Phone use in the Classroom. Florida
Educational Leadership, Fall 08, p 29-32
Geary, Mark. (2008)
Phun with Photostory 3. Florida Educational
Leadership, Spr 08, p32-35
Geary, Mark. (2007) Literacy and Learning in the Web Based
Environment.
Florida Educational Leadership, Spr 07, p20-23
Geary, Mark (2003) The Analysis of Students
and Programs at
Kysilka, Marcella L.; Geary, Mark; Schepsie, Sharon. (2002). The Complexity of Teaching in the Information Age School. Curriculum & Teaching Dialogue, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p59
Geary, Mark & Kysilka,
Marcella (1999) So It Doesn’t Work: A Buyer’s Guide to Software Evaluation.
NAU-Web99 Conference, May14-17th 1999,
EXPERIENCE:
Aug
06 – Present
Assistant
Professor,
Duties Include:
·
Advising
students
·
Supervising
student teachers
·
Teaching
technology, leadership & literacy courses
Courses taught include:
SEED 450 Reading in the Content Area
CET 692 Project Integrate
EDFN 365 Computer Based Technology and Learning
EDFN 465 Multimedia & Web design
LIBM 205 Children's Literature
EPSY 428
CET 765 Leadership for Technology Change
·
Writing
and presenting
- Awarded $1000 Faculty Research
Incentive grant
- Awarded multiple summer course development grants
- Received $6433 & $2100 grant from Inspiration software
- Apr 22, 2010 Conducted faculty inservice, Five (non-Google) Web 2.0 Apps
- April 24, 2009 Conducted workshop with Gabe Mydland on Blended Learning at the FRI Symposium
- Jan 30, 2009 Conducted faculty Inservice on SharePoint
- Oct 25, 2008 Created tutorial for COE faculty on using Delicious.com. COE faculty have since saved over 3000 bookmarks.
- Apr 11, 2008 Conducted Blended Learning Inservice with Gabe Mydland for students
- Feb 11, 2008 Conducted Blended Learning inservice for faculty with Gabe Mydland
-
Sept 28, 2007 Led Diversity Technology conference on Web 2.0 apps for DSU students
- Dec 5, 2006 Did demo of technology projects of students for the Board of Regents.
- Nov 20, 2006 Conducted faculty inservice on Photostory 3
- January 2007 - Current - Technology editor, Florida Educational Leadership
Oct
05 – July 07
Ohio
School
Institute for Reading Intervention (SIRI) Instructor
Duties include:
· Providing Professional Development workshops for teachers wanting to learn adolescent literacy strategies and diagnostic literacy strategies.
Aug
05 – Aug 06
Curriculum
Director / Guidance Counselor at
Duties Include:
·
Fulfilling
all functions of site, school, and district test coordinators for state
mandated Ohio Proficiency Test and Ohio Graduation Test
- Doubled both passing rate and
participation rate
·
Redesigned
all web based courses for greater ease of use and reading comprehension
·
Directed
and implemented technology purchases to improve student reading comprehension
and writing
·
Led
or assisted all literacy comprehension professional development
·
Assisted
special education teachers in review of IEPs
·
Counseled
students whose friends had been murdered, who were contemplating suicide, who
were recovering addicts or had committed serious felonies
Aug
03 – July 05
Technology
Facilitator for Seminole County School System, Carillon Elementary School,
Oviedo, FL
Duties included:
·
Supporting
·
Troubleshooting
network problems
·
Developed
multimedia constructivist approaches to teaching
·
Planning
and integrating for technology usage
·
Staff
training and staff development in technology use
·
Maintaining
school website
·
Created
and Taught online Reading Comprehension course
·
Supervised
& trained two assistants.
·
Created
and trained tech rangers, a group of elementary students who then helped out
with school webpages and other technology related
tasks.
Implemented Project 2017: Digital Portfolios
for All. Project created a
digital record of literacy development through the kindergarten school year
that included reading recordings, video, and work samples.
Awarded
$4500 in software as a Macromedia (now Adobe) Educational Leader.
May
04 – August 04
Adjunct
Instructor,
Taught CET1486,
Introduction to Networking.
Course presents concepts and models of basic functions of networks. Course
prepared students to take Network + exam.
June
02 – Aug 03
Technology
Specialist for Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence (FlaRE),
University of Central Florida, Orlando,
FL
Duties included creating digital portfolios
and presentations for constituent groups, including the Florida Department of
Education, photographing and videotaping events, maintaining the FLaRE website and assisting in all technological aspects of
the statewide literacy initiative. Programs used included Adobe Premiere and
Photoshop, Imovie, Flash MX, Dreamweaver, and
FrontPage. Developed and led grant
writing workshops for summer staff development and literacy institutes.
Sept
03 – Dec 03
Adjunct
Instructor,
Taught EDG 6236,
Principals of Instruction. Course covered instructional techniques and
methods used in a classroom setting.
August
02 – May 03
Adjunct
Instructor,
Taught EDF 2005,
Introduction to Education.
Course covered basic concepts of education in the K-12 setting, and
included fifteen hours of volunteer work/observations in the schools.
May
02 – August 02
Adjunct Instructor,
Taught CET1610,
Introduction to Cisco Networking. Course presents concepts and models of basic
functions of networks.
June
98 – May 02
Middle
School Technology Coordinator for Seminole County School System, Sanford, FL
Duties included:
·
Staff
training and staff development in technology use to support state test
requirements
- School moved from “D” to “A” on
state report card
·
Administering
and maintaining 7 servers & 600PCs
·
Planning
and integrating for technology usage of
2.1 million grant
·
Creating
and maintaining school Intranet and Internet websites
August
01 – December 01
Adjunct
Instructor,
Taught CGS1060,
Introduction to Computers. Course presented and modeled use of basic
functions of Windows 98, Word2000, and using the Internet.
January
01 – May 02
Adjunct Instructor,
Co-developed,
designed and taught on-line graduate course, EME6707, The Technology Coordinator
in the School. This course used the on-line learning tool, WebCT, to teach
prospective technology specialists how to effectively integrate and maintain
technology.
January
97 – January 03
Graduate Assistant,
Assisted University
of Central Florida professors to create distance learning applications and
solutions in the College of Education. Duties include assessing student
needs, implementing distributed learning solutions, maintaining course websites,
managing WebCT course software and assisting in the creation of rubrics for
assessing progress and participation of on-line students.
July
01
Teacher Intern, Siemens,
Awarded and worked teacher summer internship
experience at Siemens. Experience included work in Information Technology, and
in distributed learning.
May 98 -
June 01
Consultant,
Designed, developed,
and presented the technology portion of the
June 97 -
July 98
Teacher
Intern, Future Computer Corporation,
Awarded
Teacher Quest scholarship to work for Future Computer setting up computer
networks in businesses. Also developed and maintained Future
Computer website.
Sept 92 -
May 97
Another Chance for Education Teacher,
Seminole County School System, Indian Trails Middle School, Winter Springs, FL
Designed and
implemented computerized resource tutorial program for at-risk students.
(ACE=Another
Chance for Education) that integrates study, affective and career skills with
academics and research using the resources of the Internet. Wrote and was
awarded on behalf of the school grants totaling $10,300. As a member of the grant
writing committee, assisted in the successful writing of the technology
enhancement grant for $180,000.
Mar 89 - 92
Teacher, Emotionally Handicapped Self
Contained, Seminole County School System, Oviedo High School, Oviedo, FL
Taught
English, social studies, math, science and social-personal skills classes. Integrated reading comprehension strategies with content area
instruction. Developed and presented workshop on Behavior Management for
the Problem Child.
May 87 - May
88
May 85 - May
86
Senior Counselor, Eckerd Family Youth
Alternatives,
Counselor
for ten emotionally handicapped adolescents in the wilderness environment. Provided reorientation counseling for students in the final phase
of their program. Organized and directed extended camping trips,
including a twenty-two day trip down the
Aug 86 - Jul
87
Graduate Student Director & Grant
coordinator, UCF Drug and
Founded and
advised BACCHUS chapter. Organized and implemented multiple drug and alcohol
awareness programs for student organizations at the
May 86 - Jul
87
Graduate Assistant,
Developed
leadership training for Orientation program and student organizations at the
University of Central Florida. Provided liaison
with campus ministry to develop an academically relevant theological speakers
program.
HONORS:
Selected
for Dakota State’s $1000 Faculty Research Incentive grant for research in
educational applications of cell phones.
Selected as
one of seventy Macromedia Educational Leaders in 2005 in the
Received
$250 scholarship as one of UCF’s “Top 100” students for 2002.
Received
$1000 scholarship from UCF for promising graduate studies in education
PRESENTATIONS:
Will Present
Simple Cellphones
American Association of Physics Teachers
Presented Recycle Your Computers and Reinvigorate Your Science with the Sugar Os (Co-Presented with Michael Anderson), Technology in Education (TIE)
Presented Comics, Graphic Novels and Online Comic Creation Sites,
Technology in Education (TIE)
April 18, 2010
Presented I Got Game- Content Neutral Games for Teachers,
Technology in Education (TIE)
April 18, 2010
Presented Blended Learning for the Digital Age,
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, San Diego, CA
Mar 29,2010
Presented Process and Problems of Developing a Cell Phone Delivered College Course,
mLearn 2009, Oct 29, 2009
Presented 2nd
Life for Elementary Students: Webkinz Studio in
Education, Imaginative Education Research Symposia Jul 08
Presented
Engage and Excite with Booktrailers, National Educational Computing Conference
Jun 08, Austin, TX
Presented
joint workshop with DSU COE faculty, Heroes, Helpers and Entrepreneurs, TIE 08
May 08, Sioux Falls, SD
Presented
Supporting Cell Phones in Education, SITE 08, Mar 08, Las Vegas, Nevada
Presented
Questioning Strategies for Cell Phone Use – E-Learn 2007 Oct 07, Quebec City, Canada
Presented
Imaging Freud: Visual Literacy strategies for a Human Growth& Development
course.
International Imaginative Education conference, Vancouver, BC July 07
Presented
Visual Learning workshop at TIE 07 with Dr. Vicki Sterling, Rapid City, SD 2007
Presented
Cheat Fair: Questioning Strategies for Cell Phone use in the Classroom at the
Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC), Orlando, FL 2007
Presented
Literacy Enhancements for the Web Based Environment at NACOL/Virtual School
Symposium, Nov 2006,
Presented
171 portfolios, 3200 Artifacts of Learning at the Florida Educational
Technology Conference (FETC), 2006
Co-Presented
with National Board Certified teacher, Nicki
Clausen-Grace, on Literacy Circles at Illinois Online Conference, 2005
Co-Presented
with Deb Kamm on creation of 508 compliant websites
at Florida Educational Technology Conference 2004.
Co-Presented
with Dr. Marcella Kysilka on technology use in the
preplanning stage of teaching at American Educational Research Association
(AERA) 2003 conference in Chicago.
Co-Presented with
Deb Kamm on Improving Websites for persons with
disabilities at FETC 2003.
Co-Presented
with Dr. Marcella Kysilka on Reactive Behavior Types
at Cincinnati Virtual High School at 2003 International Conference on Education
in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Co-presenter
with Dr. Marcella Kysilka at Kappa Delta Pi 2001
National convention on distance learning integration.
Co-presenter with Dr.
Marcella Kysilka at International Study Association
on Teachers and Teaching 2001 conference in Portugal on technology and learning
integration.
Presented
on Instructional uses of hyper-linked Jeopardy template at International
Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
Presented on
Heuristic Evaluation of software systems as a consideration in the purchasing
process at International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
1999 convention.
Co-presenter with Dr.
Marcella Kysilka at International Study Association
on Teachers and Teaching 1999 conference in Ireland on Distance learning
integration.
Presented paper at NAU/Web99 on Heuristic Evaluation of Software.
Developed
and taught FrontPage 98 web design workshop for Seminole County.
Presented with Dr.
Larry Holt at ASCD 1999 National Convention on Middle School Internet
Consortium website.
Co-Presented Paper with Dr. Marcella Kysilka
at NAU/Web98 on Distance Learning implementation.
Co-Presented
paper with Dr. Marcella Kysilka at American
Association of Teaching and Curriculum 1999 conference on Problems, Paradigms
and Solutions in Distance Learning.
ACTIVITIES:
Former
Webmaster, American Association of Teaching and Curriculum
Former
Executive Board member, Seminole County Police Athletic League
Developed
and led
Designed
"Jeopardy" PowerPoint template, a test review tool that has been downloaded
by over eighty thousand teachers and trainers.
Taught
workshop on "Webifying your Teaching Tools"
for
Conducted numerous
workshops for faculty on educational uses of the Internet.
Taught first
evening Webpage workshop for Seminole County School Board.
Coached inline hockey after school
programs at Indian Trails Middle and Sanford Middle.
Former co-therapist with Vallis Miller at
Personal Development Consultants.
Former
President, UCF Student Government. Administered 1.5 million
dollar budget.
Former Staff Editorial Writer, UCF Future and UCF InPrint newspapers.
Designed the Indian Trails Middle web page, one of Seminole
County's first.