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MICHAEL FITZGERALD, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Faculty Computing Center, Medgar Evers College.
"Information technology at this level is very nearly magic, and we have become its sorcerers."
Dr. FitzGerald will be teaching workshops in the use of CUNY's site licensed multimedia authoring tool, Macromedia's Authorware Professional, as well as in the authoring of Worldwide Web documents in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). He has been a member of the Medgar Evers faculty since 1978 and has been associated with the Office of Instructional Technology's Multimedia Courseware Development Initiative since it inception in 1990-91 as one of the co-developers, with Bruce Naples of Queensborough Community College, of a ToolBook based program entitled "Harlem Renaissance". Dr. FitzGerald has also held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland and at Wesleyan University (Connecticut). He received the B.A. from Colgate University, and the Ph.D. (Philosophy) from the New School for Social Research. He has held NEH post-doctoral fellowships at UCAL-Berkeley (1979), Cornell (1981), and Columbia (1985); at Stanford (1984), he was a Research Fellow in Academic Computing at the School of Education. He publishes frequently on issues related to computing in higher education.
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MICHAEL E. KRESS, Professor of Computer Science and Chairperson of Computer Science, The College of Staten Island.
"Our challenge is to use the time compression of information access provided by today's multimedia technology to enhance knowledge acquisition for our students."
Dr. Kress will be teaching a second section of a workshop in desktop digital video editing on the Macintosh platform originally offered in July 1994. He has been a member of the College of Staten Island faculty since 1984 and has been associated with the Office of Instructional Technology's Multimedia Courseware Development Initiative since 1992-93. He received the A.A.S from Staten Island Community College (CUNY), the B.S and the M.A. from Richmond College (CUNY), and the M.S. and the Ph.D. from New York University. His research interests and recent publications fall into three areas of investigation: (1) numerical simulations of physics problems, including solution of partial differential equations, diagnostics, computer graphics, visualization, user friendly input and control; (2) scientific visualization in numerical 2-D and 3-D time dependent problems; and (3) graphical user interfaces (GUI) for design systems.
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ANTHONY G. PICCIANO, Professor, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Hunter College
"To paraphrase Forrest Gump, multimedia is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get."
Dr. Picciano will be teaching workshops on basic design concepts in multimedia de-velopment and will be available as a consultant to faculty who are working on their own multi-media projects. In January 1995, Professor Picciano will again serve as one of the leading participants in an extended workshop for CUNY faculty entitled "Integrating Multimedia Materials into your Curriculum," a workshop that was originally held at Brooklyn College in Spring 1994. Prior to joining the Hunter College faculty in 1987, Dr. Picciano held a variety of high-level administrative posts at Hunter College, the College of Staten Island, and SUNY New Paltz. He has been associated with the CUNY Multimedia Courseware Development Initiative since its inception in 1990-91 as the developer of multimedia implementations of the American Social History Project's "The Five Points" and "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl." He received the B.A. from Hunter College, the M.A. from Lehman College, the M.P.A. from Baruch College and the Ph.D. from Fordham University. Dr. Picciano has just completed a book for the Macmillan Publishing Company entitled Computers in the Schools: a Guide to Planning and Administration.
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DEAN SAVAGE, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Queens College.
"We are on the verge of a major increase in Internet use by CUNY faculty for research and teaching; people who have never used the net before will soon find it essential".
Dr. Savage will be teaching two workshops in the use of exceptionally user-friendly data exploration and analysis software developed with funding from the National Science Foundation. The first workshop introduces QStats and QData, which have been used by both faculty and students throughout the New York City area for data analysis and data management; the second workshop will present Extract and QSearch, new tools used in conjunction with the General Social Survey (1972-1993) that make access to this major national data source easy for novices and experienced users alike. The last two workshops will provide an introduction to Mosaic and the World Wide Web as a research and instructional resource. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford and his Ph.D. from Columbia, and has been at Queens College since 1971.