Online Teaching

In Person Teaching

Lower School Technology Coordinator/Teacher-in-Residence

University School of Nashville, United States

Jun 1996 - Present

Technology, Collaboration

Founding facilitator, ISTE SIGVE, Host on Classroom20.com, ISTE Second Life Docent

I lead a growing body of educators in exploring the potentials of Virtual Environments through the ISTE Special Interest Group for Virtual Environments, SIGVE. The group, one of only 20 official SIGs in this >85,000 member organization, is open to anyone, anywhere, and facilitated via a wiki (http://sigve.iste.wikispaces.net) and other online tools as well as annual meetings somewhere in the U.S.--this year we'll be meeting June 27-30 in Denver, Colorado.

Regular inworld docent duty and collaboration with educators in Second Life, a 3D virtual environment

Presented "Windows Podcasting: Tools, Tricks, and Strategies for Success" to a capacity session workshop of over 200. See "Portfolio" at http://scottmerrick.info for more

Certification of Participation

Harvard Graduate School of Education, Connecticut, United States

Jan 2005 - May 2005

Teaching for Understanding (TFU) with New Technology Tools 30 hour certification program

Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (K-8 notation), second major in English, CreativeWriting

Nova Southeastern University, Tennessee, United States

Sep 1991 - Dec 1995

Cum Laude

Teaching Certification License, K-8

Tennessee, United States

Year Of Passing: 1996

Featured Member Profile in June/July issue of "Learning and Leading with Technology" magazine, 100,000 circulation

summary of the development of IVC (Interactive Videoconferencing) in education, K12, up to the time of the article's publication

My novel, a history-mystery describing the progress of one soul through three periods of time in America: Civil War, Mid-1950s, and a post-holocaust future.