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| Meet the Western Reserve Public Media Educational Services Staff | |||||
Jeff Good joined the educational services staff in August of 2006 as Director of Education. Jeff has over fifteen years working in the educational field serving as an Associate Director at Youngstown State University, Broadcast Supervisor at the Trumbull County Educational Service Center, Program Manager at the Oakland County Intermediate School District in Michigan and Manager of Multimedia Services at Genesee Intermediate School District in Michigan. Jeff brings an extensive background in distance learning having constructed and managed the implementation of educational networks in Ohio and Michigan as well as a background in instructional technology integration both in higher education and K-12. Jeff also has a broadcast media background having worked in radio, television and the satellite industry prior to the educational field. Jeff possesses a BS in Speech Communications from Youngstown State, an MS.ED from the University of Phoenix in Curriculum and Technology and holds an Ohio Teaching license in Speech Communications. |
I’ve been at Western Reserve Public Media since 1998 and am currently in my third job here. I was first and Educational Technology Consultant, then the Director of Educational Services and now an Education Content Producer. I love my current job. I get to do all of the things I love. They include working with teachers to create multimedia programs like One State-Many Nations: Native Americans of Ohio and The Constitution Challenge. I also get to do some tech workshops. Teachers are incredibly creative and I always (well, almost always) get a “shot of adrenaline” being with these “my’ people (I still pretty much define myself as a teacher. Does that ever change?) I also get to create educational content for the Web. I’ve also been able to work with two School Improvement Teams — the East Region and the Far East Region — from the ODE. This is so helpful to me and helps me to keep a handle about what is being done in school districts
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Mother's philosophy (and now mine) towards life was, So I became a math teacher for the Niles City School District, twenty-one years in the junior high and fourteen at the high school where I developed the technology curriculum. Yep, that's the magic number 35 distributed over five decades. My tech assignments are creating methods for teachers to use applications in the classroom and developing tech plans for schools to put technology in front of students and teachers. Some people call me an 'Application Junkie' since I have worked with so many different programs—PageMaker, Power Point, Word, Camtasia, video-editing programs, iLife series, Dreamweaver, etc… This background, coupled with being a real teacher for so many years, puts me in an ideal position to offer tech training that can be used by other regular classroom teachers.
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