Topic B2: Orienting Students to Online Technologies - About the Author

Kathy Hays is an assistant professor of mathematics at Anne Arundel Community College. She developed The Nature of Mathematics online course and taught it in the fall of 2000 and the spring of 2001. She also taught the course to inmates at a correctional institution during the spring of 2001. She taught a hybrid web/video College Algebra course in the spring of 2001 and will be developing the course so that it will be completely offered online in the fall of 2001.

She received her BS in mathematics from Purdue University and her MA in mathematics from Ball State University. She has taken further course work in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and in math and education from the University of Maryland at College Park and Portland State University. She has attended online conferences virtually from Purdue University and Kapi'loni Community College, University of Hawaii.

She received additional assistance from her son, Seamus Leahy. As a student at Anne Arundel Community College, he has taken online courses in his studies to work toward an associate degree in computer science and web design.

Ms. Hays and Mr. Leahy are webmasters of the following sites:

www2.aacc.cc.md.us/mmatyc
www.aacc.cc.md.us/matkehays
www.lllialumnae.org
gdyg.tripod.com
http://www.aacc.cc.md.us/matkehays/problems/tpp.htm
http://www.toad.net/~wleahy/sirduck/

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