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    Buenos Dias, Guten Tag and Welcome to the Web office of:

    Dr. Robert S. Houghton, Associate Professor, Director for Distance Education for EMGE

    Table of Contents: Scholarship | Teaching | Service

    My first grant, from the then Apple Education Foundation in 1979 while teaching kindergarten as a K-6 licensed teacher, used Apple II+ computers to create teaching and learning tools for literacy, a path I've never left even while later serving as director for a K-12 gifted/talented program. Since completing my doctoral work in 1989 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on the implications of nonlinear systems and educational computing coursework, my scholarly career has been focused on creating and using digital technology to support and transform educational practice. I launched and ran the first Web servers on the WCU campus in 1994, becoming part of a global system continuing to transform the meanings of literate and literacy.

    Sections

    Scholarship

    science beaker as metaphor for research

    paletteTheory - System Behavior and Axioms

    Nonlinear Educational Theory

    Research

    eC.R.O.P. (problem discovery branch, http://bit.ly/juMm5): designing an all-subjects, web based, performance enhancement, problem processing application using SUP, THINK, LEAP and other problem solving models.

    Application

    The Problem Solving Life:
    Painting 21st Century Solutions with the Digital Palette

    These chapters address many of the fundamental issues, problems and solutions of a culture and its educational systems transitioning to the digital literacy era in the twenty-first century.

    Methodology

    palette p3Selected Presentations:

    Commercial Books:

    Projects:

    Tools:

    Teaching

    whiteboard as metaphor for teaching

    eBooks

    • eThink: Digital Literacy Methods, learning (linking, organizing, integrating), using telecomputer technology. Course options - Fall and Spring semesters, day and evening sections, Cullowhee, Asheville campuses and distance education options.

    • Multimedia Education, developing your imagination in the context of curriculum and the full sweep of composition and communication in cyberspace; advanced Web design projects. Course options - Spring semesters, evening sections, Cullowhee, Asheville campuses and distance education options.

    Service

    school bus as metaphor for service    		 Connecting & Building Communities
    Hubble's view of a black hole. Children's Issues and Resources .satellite in space
    Douglas Nelson "It may well be that the nation cannot survive - as a decent place to live, as a world class power or even as a democracy - with such high rates of children growing into adulthood unprepared...." Gerald Bracey "The fact is that schools have done a fabulous job on the supply side - providing business and industry with greater numbers of highly productive workers than they can use."

     

    Growing A Campus

    Web Page Address: http://www.wcu.edu/ceap/Houghton/

    Details
    a family genealogical crest Roots
    Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, emphasis on nonlinear and digital transformations, curriculum integration of computer mediated technologies; Internet. Multimedia: University of Wisconsin-Madison (great bookstore , great band , great fight song; FountainCam; Lake Mendota Cam; & You've Said It All - official version;  Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA).
    Server
    I began the first web server at WCU on a laptop on October 31, 1994 and expanded in 1995 to a College of Education server using a 9150 PowerMac with 4 gig. of storage running WebStar server software. In comparison, today's college Web server has terabytes of storage space and growing.

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