Karen_Richardson

**Welcome to my home page!**
//A Note About the Photos Above: This year, I've been participating in Project 365, a group that is part of flickr, the photo sharing website. Group members take and post a picture each day of the year.//

A little bit about me...I've been involved in educational technology teaching and learning for over 20 years now! In 1988, I taught my fellow English teachers how to use a free word processor called FredWriter to create and edit their mid terms and final exams. With the three computers in the library, my students and I used Print Shop Deluxe to create bookmarks for the novels we were reading. No internet...no cell phones...an interesting time to get started in education.

I finished my PhD at William and Mary last summer, the first graduate of their Curriculum and Educational Technology program. I thoroughly enjoyed it but am also happy to be done. I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses for the College in ed tech and research. I also (obviously) teach for VCU as an adjunct and only online. I also teach online for PBS Teacherline. And, beginning on July 1, I'll be the Executive Director of the Virginia Society for Technology in Education. I'm very excited about the opportunity to serve VSTE in this capacity.

For fun, I like to garden, read, play the piano and recorder, sing in my church choir, and mess around with boats. My husband and I go sailing and I like to canoe and kayak as well. My goal is to build my own kayak some day.