Patrick Crispen is the Faculty
Training and Support Coordinator for the Faculty Technology
Center at the California State University in Long Beach.
He holds a bachelors degree in in economics from the University
of Alabama and a masters degree in educational technology
from Pepperdine University.
At Cal State Long Beach, Patrick collaborates with faculty,
university technology support staff, and other individuals
and groups to provide guidance in the development of technology-based
learning and instructional materials. Prior
to moving to California, Patrick was the Internet Training
Materials Specialist for the Internet Network Information
Center (InterNIC) at Network Solutions where he was the
program manager for the internationally acclaimed 15 Minute
Series, free PowerPoint-based Internet training presentations.
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Patrick
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| Patrick was also
a Simulations Director for, and founding staff member of,
the United States Space Camp's Space Academy Level II program
(now called "Advanced Space Academy").
In the fall of 1994, Patrick created
a free, 27-lesson Internet training workshop called "Roadmap."
Over 500,000 people participated in Roadmap, making it
the most popular Internet training workshop in history.
Patrick also co-authored two classroom textbooks, Atlas
for the Information Superhighway (1996) and Web
Page Design (1999), and is the co-author of the Internet
Tourbus, a free semi-weekly Internet newsletter read by
over 100,000 people in over 130 countries. Tourbus celebrated
its tenth anniversary in the Summer of 2005, and PC
World recently rated Tourbus as one of the Internet's
15 best newsletters.
Since October of 1997, Patrick has been an invited weekly
panelist on a call-in radio show on WGN Radio in Chicago.
The show, the “Website Wednesday Night” portion of the
“Steve and Johnnie” show, is broadcast live to 38 states
and most of Canada on AM 720 and is also simulcast over
the Internet. Callers from around the country ask Patrick
and a panel of two other experts technology-related questions. |
