After 22 years at the University of Washington, I retired in 2018 and am now a Lecturer Emerita. Retired is misleading, because somehow I am still working! I coauthor a lecture workbook with Dr. Stacy Palen: Learning Astronomy by Doing Astronomy, where we put students in the driver seats and have them do the work. I also have experience teaching online courses. I stay involved by helping those new to teaching online courses engage students and minimize cheating. My current work involves:
- being a liaison for UWHS interacting with Washington high school teachers teaching Astronomy 101 and 150 in their classrooms.
- working on retrieving the curriculum pages for our blind and sight-impaired students and finding ways to print 3D models of the tactile objects we use.
- editing existing activities by other authors and uploading introductory activities I’ve developed, ones published nowhere else.
I live on a half acre in South Whidbey Island and stay busy as well in landscaping half of it and tending to a small garden and a lot of trees, shrubs, and perennials. I also have two bloodhounds (brothers) who are always up to mischief and being generally stubborn and full of slobbers.