Dennis O'Connor
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Stout
140E Voc Rehab Bldg
Menomonie, WI 54751
Phone:
(530) 318-1145
E-Mail:
oconnord@uwstout.edu
Dennis O'Connor facilitates Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6-Traits and The E-learning Practicum. He is also the Program Advisor for the E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program. He has over thirty-five years experience as an educator.
Dennis O'Connor has been an elementary and middle school teacher, as well as professional development trainer for 30 years. As a district Language Arts Coordinator he organized teacher training in the writing process and Traits Writing Model. As a district technology coordinator he was a pioneer in educational technology integration.
He earned an MS. in Online Teaching and Learning from California State University, East Bay (formerly CSU Hayward) where he has taught graduate students how to teach online. Mr. O'Connor also earned an M.Ed in Instructional Design and Technology Integration at Western Governors University. He earned his undergraduate degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley.
In addition to teaching Mr. O'Connor has worked as a freelance magazine writer, a corporate training director, and educational computer consultant.
In 1995, groundbreaking work in technology infused interdisciplinary teaching led to a Milken Educator Award . After working online with the ISTE, National Educational Technology Standards Project in 1998, Mr. O'Connor became a project writer developing units of practice for ISTE-NETS, Connecting Curriculum and Technology . Mr. O'Connor remains active as a standards review consultant and project writer for ISTE.
Mr. O'Connor taught 7/8 communications for 15 years at Kingsbury Middle School, in Lake Tahoe Nevada where his students scored top in the state on the (traits based) State Analytical Writing test. The core-based technology infused curriculum at Kingsbury was recognized when the school was named the Nevada National Technology Spotlight School for 2000.
Dennis is currently Senior E-Learning Architect and founding partner with the 21st Century Information Fluency Project. He specializes in creating online curriculum to teach Internet searching, evaluation, and ethical use of digital information. He also teaches hybrid online / face to face NETS-T oriented educational technology courses for teacher credential candidates at California State University San Marcos.
Dennis lives San Marcos, just north of San Diego, California . In his spare time Dennis enjoys swimming, landscaping, and exploring Southern California.
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