I work for the Open Courseware Consortium as the Community College Outreach Manager promoting open educational practices to empower faculty and students to improve teaching and learning at community colleges. I also teach Computer Technology courses as an adjunct having been a software engineer and manager in my earlier career. I hang out in Silicon Valley where I get exposed to lots of the latest high tech chatter but I am trying to stay focused on the longer lasting values in life such as fellowship and community. Some days I am better at it than others :-)! My interests include traveling to other countries and observing their cultures -- I hope to do more of that as time allows ...