Innovative Learning & Teaching

Hello, my name is Gato and I’m Bill’s pal. I’m an 18 pound Maine Coon cat. I feel confident that I can tell you about Bill, because I have known him ever since I was a kitten. I wake him up when the coffee starts brewing and we have breakfast together every day. I love oatmeal, and so does he! I also love to sit next to him when he is working on his computer. Ever since I met him, he has always been working on something on his computer. First, it was a dissertation that he was doing for the City University of New York while he taught high school in New Jersey. Then, a year later he wrote a letter to a school called Wright State University in Ohio, and a few months after that, I moved to Ohio. In 1997, Bill was preparing to teach something called an on-line class and he prepared by taking one himself to help him learn how to do something called “facilitating”. He says he learned that cyberspace can be a lonely and uncomfortable place, but if facilitators use certain techniques, the online environment can be a warm and engaging experience. Click on the Relevance Section to find out more. Wow! He just got home. I have to go. Meow!