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BM - The University of North Carolina at Charlotte - 2014                                        MM - The University of North Carolina School of the Arts - 2016                              MLIS & Post Bac Certificate - Kent State University - coming 2019

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BM - The University of North Carolina at Charlotte - 2014                                        MM - The University of North Carolina School of the Arts - 2016                              MLIS & Post Bac Certificate - Kent State University - coming 2019

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I play viola, violin, and classical guitar and hold  Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. A year long research project during my undergraduate studies inspired me to become involved in academic research and writing, which led to a desire to work in the library and information science profession. I greatly believe that fluency with educational technology is necessary for anyone working in the library profession, which attracted me to the Post Bac Graduate Certificate in Online and Blended Learning and Teaching at KSU.

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I am originally from Lexington, Kentucky and I have also lived in both Charlotte, North Carolina and Cleveland, Ohio. Books and music have played a starring role in my life, and I have a love of many types of music (from Medieval chant to Bob Dylan and everything in between) and literature from Shakespeare to Kafka.  Though I don't have much of it, I spend my scant free time learning languages on Duolingo, watching scary movies, and spending every moment I can with my beautiful wife and our Shetland sheepdog, Phoebe.

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Interest in Online and Blended Learning and Teaching

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Interest in Online and Blended Learning and Teaching

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I enrolled in this program at KSU because I believe the skill sets of library science and educational technology go hand and hand. I have be involved in teaching throughout my professional music career, and I aspire to build a new career path that combines music, librarianship, education, and technology. I strongly feel that there needs to be more digital literacy instruction in higher education, and I hope that taking the courses in this certificate program will prepare me to assist students by building online courses that deliver instruction on digital literacy, humanities, rare book preservation, and music librarianship. The screen shot below is from my first digital humanities project to combine all these interests, it shows digital images from a 12 CE manuscript.

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I currently work in customer service and instrument repair/sales at Cleveland Violins, which is a full-service violin shop located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. I am lucky to have had a diverse music career and I have played in  professional symphony and opera orchestras, musical theater pits, taught students of all ages, and even worked as a choir conductor. My first job experience in information science was as a music librarian for a regional symphony orchestra.

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I am looking to taking this course as well as learning and working together. Feel free to contact me via BlackBoard.