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Hours and Biographies

Dr. Deborah Gentry
Director: Instructional Development Center

B.S. University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana, 1972
M.Ed. University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana, 1975
M.S. University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana, 1981
Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction, Illinois State University, 1990

Deborah has a long history of post-secondary teaching and administration. Additionally, she has and continues to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her endeavors in this area of interest have resulted in numerous national publications, presentations, and leadership roles, including serving as editor of a teaching journal. At Heartland Community College, her primary responsibility is to provide direction, leadership, and management for the Instructional Development Center including offering professional development for faculty with regard to instructional methods and assessment techniques. More specific activities for her include:

• Provide planning and support for assessment activities at the classroom and programmatic levels.
• Provide planning and support for the development and review of curricula and instructional methods.
• Coordinate scheduling of IDC training opportunities for faculty.
• Provide planning and support for the development and use of instructional technology including classroom and online applications.
• Foster and maintain collegiality in fulfilling duties and responsibilities.

• Office: SCB 2305
• Phone: 309-268-8428
• Email: Deborah Gentry
• Hours: 8 am to 4:30 pm

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Tom Corcoran
Media Technologist, Information Technology

September 2007 - current

B.S. Illinois State University, 1997
A.A.S. Heartland Community College, 2005

Tom Corcoran (media technologist formerly for the Instructional Development Center) has moved from the Academic Support and Student Success Division to the Information Technology (IT) Department. A primary rationale behind this move was ensuring enhanced service to Blackboard users, both students and faculty. Tom has been increasingly devoting more and more of his skills, talents, and time to Blackboard-related needs, and it seems essential to high quality delivery of online instruction that he continue to do so. Tom has graciously supported this move and looks forward to working with a team of fellow IT staff members to deliver necessary services.

Faculty and staff should make requests for the services listed below through the IT Helpdesk. These requests will typically be routed to Tom or other staff in IT who will work to meet the particular need identified in the request for help. Subjects that may be included in these requests are:

• Camtasia Screen Recording assistance
• Audio Podcasting Recording assistance
• Assistance with other Tech Tuesdays topics including Blogging/Wikis, Image Editing, HTML/CSS, GoogleDocs, Flickr, VoiceThread, Jing, FlipVideo camera, Digital Audio Recorders, Prezi, etc.
• Other Audio/Video support (capturing video clips off VHS/DVD, maintaining files on the Tech Streaming Server, backing projects up to DVD/CR-ROM, editing audio in Audacity, etc.)
• Use of the Windows PC for Recording/Camtasia production, Macintosh with VCR/DVD/Final Cut Express video production (both currently in SCB 2314, but perhaps eventually moved elsewhere)
• Blackboard Course assistance/multimedia online support, embedding audio/video into Blackboard, image editing and creating banner graphics for Blackboard courses, copying courses to future semesters, adding full text library resources to Blackboard, etc.
• Multimedia/Flash-based Diagram/Content creation (jeopardy game board, interactive diagrams, etc.)

Office Hours and Contact Information:

• Office: SCB 2111
• Phone: 309-268-8427
• Email: Tom Corcoran
• Staff Web site: http://employee.heartland.edu/tcorcora
• Office Hours: Typically Monday - Friday: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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