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Background and Qualifications for Bruce L. Bird Born and raised in Maine he received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Maine and a Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University. After three years at the Naval Ship R & D lab in Annapolis, Maryland, working in the area of high temperature superconductors, he joined the faculty at Anne Arundel Community College where he taught for thirty years as a physics professor. For the last ten years he has offered faculty workshops on various authoring programs (Toolbook, Authorware, Director, Flash) as well as web publishing programs (FrontPage, RealPresenter, RealSlideshow,etc). For the last five years he was Director of the Center for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) at Anne Arundel Community College where he created the CALT web site as a faculty resource and provided support to faculty interested in exploring the use of technology in teaching and learning. He also created the web site for the Association of Faculties for the Advancement of Community College Teaching (AFACCT). After running this site for four years, upon retirement, he passed the torch to a colleague at another college. Over the past few years he has given numerous talks on faculty development, learning objects, and assessment tools at local, regional, and national meetings. After retiring from teaching he continues to encourage the use of learning objects that combine simulations and assessment tools integrated with appropriate database design in order to improve the self-evaluation of students and provide better monitoring of student understanding at the topic and concept level. The MINDdrops.com web site is part of this effort.
Related URLs Center for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) Association of Faculties for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (AFACCT)
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