Dr. Terrell Neuage PhD

Dr. Neuage Personal Statements

Academic Director

• My leadership style is summed up by my willingness to facilitate excitement in bringing new ideas and working with current directions of current best practices. Academic technology is a vast and changing field with unique service, management, and leadership challenges. I embrace this with enthusiasm.
• I strive to manage people so they are empowered, listening carefully to their feedback and ideas, respecting and trusting people I work with, as professionals.
• I promote and facilitate the effective integration of technology into the basic mission of the school through planning, programming, training, consulting, and other support activities
• I strive to explore and implement the sharing of information electronically both locally and globally.
• Above all, I maintain my sense of humor!

Teacher

·          As a computer teacher and technology integrator for the past ten years I have conducted my teaching in a learner-oriented philosophy in line with social constructionist pedagogy. With students involved in constructing their own knowledge they become responsible for their learning.

·          My role has been to offer the tools to work with. As well as the many software programs that I teach and have taught such as the Office and Adobe suites and CAD programs, I advocate and work with social networking to facilitate students in responsible-communication locally and globally.

·          My PhD thesis was entitled “Conversational analysis of Chatroom “talk”’. Chatrooms were primary communicational tools at the time of my research (at the end of the 1990’s). My current research and computing interests are the construct of virtual worlds, podcasting, CAD (Computer Aided Design using Flash video, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketchup and 3D modeling) as well as the growing array of collaborative online tools (Google Docs, Moodle, Facebook, YouTube and etc)

·          Today’s students communicate in an online social world and they need leadership to be effective in this realm. My studies, teaching, and independent work since the late 1980’s has put me in a unique position to work with today’s students.