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Ted Curran is a renaissance geek. Keenly interested in education, technology, arts, communication, and language, Ted continually experiments with ways to integrate these passions towards the ultimate goal of empowering people. Ted is currently an Instructional Designer for Samuel Merritt University who loves pushing the limits of how we can communicate through words, images, music, and multimedia. He also does graphic and WordPress-powered web design as ChimeraDesigns.net and is a digital DJ called DJTrueSchool.com.Ted worked as a high school teacher for over eight years, teaching Advanced Digital Media Arts, English Language Arts, and Social Science in public charter schools– most notably Envision Schools in San Francisco.As a teacher, he fell in love with blogging as a tool for empowering, engaging, and motivating students to explore themselves as writers and participate in the larger social discourse. Ted was able to research this topic in depth as part of his National University Master of Arts in Education thesis “Blogging and Online Communities: Effects on Student Engagement, Motivation, and Social Voice”. Ted then took his newfound learning into the classroom, turning 150 Digital Arts students into web content producers who shared their artworks and writing in a conversation with the world.Ted was a content researcher and video editor for Paramount Domestic Television, MCA Records, E! Entertainment TV, Lifetime Television and others before he had the good sense to leave L.A. and start doing some good in the world.Ted lives in Oakland with the girl, dog, birds, and fish of his dreams.
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12/09- present Instructional Designer, Samuel Merritt University, Oakland, CA‣System Administrator of SMU’s online learning technologies
‣Chair-elect of the SMU Technology Committee‣Consult, train, and support faculty integrating Web 2.0 technologies in instruction
‣Research & Implement an OpenCourseWare / Open Ed. Resources program‣Manage the self-evaluation & transition to a new learning management system‣Resarch, evaluate, and implement future technologies and instructional methods
‣Design courses, lectures, learning objects, and training materials for faculty and students
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Social Media/ Blogging Teacher, TechLiminal, Oakland, CAWeb/Graphic Designer, ChimeraDesigns.net, Oakland, CA
Educational Technology Blogger, TedCurran.net, HTML5EdTech.org, Oakland, CAVolunteer Computer Technician, Marin Computer Resource Center, Novato, CA
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Assistant Editor, "Maximum Exposure", Paramount Domestic Television, Hollywood, CAResearcher, "Wild Things", Paramount Domestic Television, Hollywood, CA
Music Video Department Coordinator, MCA Records, Universal City, CA
e d u c a t o re d u c a t o r8/05- 8/09 Teacher, Envision Charter High Schools- San Francisco, CA
‣Advanced Digital Media Arts 11/12, English Language Arts 9/10
8/03- 6/05 Teacher, Mexican American Community Services Agency- San Jose, CA‣English Language Arts 11/12, Government 12
8/02- 6/03 Substitute Teacher, Santa Barbara City & County School Districts- Santa Barbara, CASubstitute Teacher, Bishop Garcia Diego High School- Santa Barbara, CA
9/01- 6/02 Instructional Assistant, Santa Barbara County School District-Santa Barbara, CA
h i g h e r e d u c a t i o nMaster of Arts: Education in Multicultural and Multi-linguistic Contexts National UniversityAVID Certified Video Editor Los Angeles Mission College
Bachelor of Arts: Interpersonal Communication Arizona State University
s p e c i a l s k i l l sBilingual: Spanish and EnglishCommunication Skills: Interpersonal, Intercultural, Public Speaking, PerformanceCurriculum Design: Project Based Learning, Outcomes- Based Assessment, Personal Learning NetworksMultimedia Production: HTML5/CSS3, Wordpress, Photoshop, Audio/Video Editing & Production, Photography
