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Jenny Watt MSEd.
Jenny Watt Quick Facts
Main Areas: Instrutional Design for Online Learning, Teaching Online, Learning OnlineCareer Focus: Business Owner
Affiliation: IDEA Solutions, LLC.
Being a teacher was about all I ever wanted to be when I grew up. When I was 15 I was introduced to one of the first personal computers - A RadioShack TRS-80 and I fell in love. In college I majored in Math and Spanish. If my father had let me take two more courses it would have been a triple major with Computer Science.
Out of college I went to work for a textile company as an industrial engineer. While I was there I learned to use Lotus 1-2-3 and started teaching the others in my office what I was learning. When I moved to Texas I landed a job teaching people to use computers at a computer store. I had finally found my calling! I have been teaching adults to use computers for over 20 years.
I started developing online classes 8 years ago while I was working at my local community college. At first I struggled with how to take what I did in the classroom and put that online. I took some courses in instructional design and found the piece I was missing. Three years later I earned my master's degree in Instructional Design for Online Learning.
I got tired of hearing from people that learning online was not right for them. With the number of courses available and the convenience of learning anytime and anywhere, it seems a shame to discount such a readily available way of learning new skills.
Since I had an interest in Learning Styles and the ways people learn I worked to develop an instructional design strategy that incorporated activities that would appeal to and support a variety of learning styles.
When a student uses their preferrred learning style it is easy for them to learn something new. When they also use their non-preferred learning styles then they strenghten their knowledge of the subject.
Anyone can learn online with the right knowledge and support.
Come join me and learn how!
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Jenny Watt
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions -- not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy -- but forming and informing them as art.
- Allen Bloom
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, sing as if no one can hear you, and dance like no one’s watching.”
-Anonymous
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Getting Started With Jenny Watt
Please visit http://www.lifetimetolearn.com/courses.html to see a list of courses we offer.
Don't see one you want? Let me know at jenny.watt[at]lifetimetolearn.com. We are always adding new topics.
Want to teach online? We are always looking for enthusiastic people. We will train you to teach online. Contact me at jenny.watt[at]lifetimetolearn.com.
Have an idea for a course you'd like to teach? We will help you develop your course and then market it for you. Contact me at jenny.watt[at]lifetimetolearn.com.
