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Paula Edmiston
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Interests
Information management and collaboration on the
Internet. Working with a wide range of people and projects.
Special interests include information architecture, complex web site
navigation, and identifying and applying ready-made CGI scripts and
javascript applications. Research
on the Internet as well as in commercial databases.
Work History
- Online staff development courses
- for the Fulton County Schools Staff Development. (Atlanta, GA)
- Computer Consultant, 1985 - present
- Specializing in exploration and tool use on the matrix of the
net
- Beginner and advanced classes on the Internet.
- Design and maintain sites on the World Wide Web
- Online research.
- Design and conduct workshops in the use of software.
- Current classes include applications software for DOS, Windows and
Macintosh
computers.
- Install and configure hardware and software.
- Consult on software selection and application.
- Software experience includes database management, graphics,
interactive video,
spreadsheets, word processing and telecommunications.
- Experienced with Apple, Macintosh, CP/M, DOS and UNIX operating
systems.
- Experienced with a variety of printers and interface cards.
- dBASE and FOX programming for original systems and alterations to
existing
systems.
- Perl and PHP/MySQL programming available.
- Software trouble-shooting, on site and over the telephone.
- Small business bookkeeping, file organization and cataloging also
available.
- Created Kalu, a program for newspaper publishers, to manage billing,
subscriptions and planning for advertising layout. Kalu produces a variety
of reports for the accounting, layout and sales departments and for the
publisher.
- Research Associate: Georgia Tech Research Institute, 1999 -
2000
- Consult on various projects. Created most of the content for Foundations
for the Future, an industry and government funded project to provide
technological
assistance to K12 educators.
- Webmaster: Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC 1998 -
1999
- Design and maintain the web site for this weekly newspaper. Special
interest
include CGI applications, navigation and information architecture in
complex web
sites.
- Adjunct Associate Professor, 1995 - 1998
- Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at
Asheville.
- Designed and taught classes on computer software and on using the
Internet.These
classes were taught in a variety of computer labs on a variety of
platforms.
- Instructor, 1995 - 1997
- Math department, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
- Designed and taught classes in computer software and on using the
Internet. Worked
closely with faculty, teaching them how Internet resources can enhance the
pedagogical
processes of course development. Internet demonstrations for the First
Year Seminar
Program.
- Programmer and Systems Manager, 1988 - 1999
- Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC
- Developed Kalu, a business system to track accounting
and
newspaper
layout, in Fox Pro
- Director, 1990 - 94
- The Alternative Reading Room, Asheville, NC
- Responsible for all aspects of this privately funded library:
administration,
reference,
fund raising and operations. Created bibliographic and mailing systems in
Fox.
Extensive use of the Internet for research and exploration. The first free
public
resource for Internet use and training in Asheville.
- Systems Manager 1990 - 92
- Green Line, Asheville, NC
- Managed computer systems for an environmental newspaper (renamed
Mountain
Xpress). Responsibilities included maintaining AppleTalk network,
troubleshootin
software, file conversion between Macs, DOS and CP/M machines. Maintained
data
and accounting systems.
- Librarian, 1989 - 90
- Blanton's Junior College, Asheville, NC
- Responsible for all aspects of library management and services.
Created extensive
procedures manual and computer systems for cataloging and acquisitions
management (in Fox).
- Reference Librarian, 1987 - 88
- Ramsey Library, UNC-Asheville
- Provided reference services, served as principal database searcher and
informed
the Ramsey library faculty about computer applications in the Public
Services
Division. Extensive use of Dialog databases and the Internet. Evaluated
and updated
the print collection of online search guides, compiled and analyzed
statistics
on online service; selected software and trained library staff in its use;
trained
staff and patrons to use of the computer-based LS/2000 catalog.
- Paraprofessional Librarian, 1985 - 1987
- Various positions of increasing responsibility in Atlanta libraries,
including
the Georgia State University Library, Atlanta Public Library and the Emory
University
Library. Created a dBASE program for the Atlanta Public Library's
Foundation Center
to track foundations in Georgia.
Memberships
- Progressive Librarians Guild
- Alabama Library Association
Education
-
- M.Ln. Library and Information Management, Emory University, Atlanta,
GA 1985
- A.B. Anthropology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 1981
- Honors Thesis, Departmental Honors
- Margaret Hall School 1972
- Versailles, KY
Publications/Presentations
- The Invisible Web. A Presentation at RECAP 2004.
Treadwell, T., Ashcraft, D., McVeigh, K. & Edmiston, P. (2003). Using
on-line collaboration and peer
project guides to encourage constructivist learning. Workshop presented
at the annual conference on Advancing Teaching in College Classrooms and
Campus Cultures held in Harrisburg, PA.
- Introduction to HTML and Web Authoring Tools. Emerging Technologies
Reshaping Education Workshop. Presented at the 1999 HBCU/MI Educational
Technology Expo. Atlanta, GA. Based on the HTML tutorial
- Communication
Tools for Online Collaboration, a presentation to the
American Psychological Association's
1999 Mini convention on Education and Technology, Boston, MA.
- Finding Funding
Sources on the Internet, a workshop delivered at the 1999
Funding Sources for Technology in Education conference in Atlanta,
GA.
- Working Online: Presentations made at the 1999 Resources for the
Electronic Classroom Symposium, West Chester University, Pennsylvania.
- "Tarr at the Edge of the Sea", in
Culture of Cyberspace. NY: New Observations. Winter
1999.
- Incorporating Ready-Made CGI
Scripts into the Curriculum. A presentation at the Teaching With
Technology Symposium, West Chester University, Pennsylvania,
May 7,
1998.
- Moderator for ACLU Forum: Freedom of Speech on the
Internet.
December 9, 1997.
- Negotiating
with the Data, in Being
Online: Net
Subjectivity. Edited by Alan Sondheim. NY:Lusitania Press. 1997.
- Quoted in "Scholars Debate the Pros and Cons of Anonymity in
Internet Discussions." By Lisa Guernsey. The Chronicle of Higher
Education. XLIII:6 October 4, 1996. pp. A23-24.
- "Patterns in Urban Food Ways: an Example from Early Twentieth-Century
Atlanta" in Archaeology of Urban America: the Search for Pattern
and
Process. Edited by Roy S. Dickens, Jr. NY: Academic Press, 1982,
pp.381-398.
- "Zooarchaeological Remains" in Archaeological Investigations
at
Horseshoe Bend, National Military Park, Alabama. University of
Ala.:
Alabama Archaeological Society, 1979, 187-195.
Internet Constructions
Recent Work
- The Database Finder
- Classes developed for the Fulton-Atlanta School System Professional
Development Department.
- My nonprofit Nota Bene site contains a number of guides I developed to use
in a public library.
- My professional site contains a number of handouts and
guides
- Matrix Magic
- Matrix Magic no
longer exists as a site but it is fairly well represented at the Internet Archive.
- Academic Home Page
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~edmiston/
- The academic home page for the classes I taught at UNCA and Warren
Wilson College, 1994-1998. The site no longer exists at UNCA but you can
see parts of it at the Internet Archive.
- Jim
Sanders,
Atlanta Attorney
- We built this site to serve as a resource for Jim Sanders
and his associates. It contains a number of server side
applications to facilitate distance working.
- Teachers on the Web
- A distance learning course on creating a web page developed and
conducted for K12
teachers in Fulton County Georgia.
- The website of the Environment,
Safety, and Occupational Health Resource Center at Georgia Tech Research Institute (this is no longer
available - the URL linked here is at the Internet Archive)
- For the Electro-Optics, Environment, and Material Lab at the Georgia
Tech Research
Institute.
- Foundations for
the Future
- A resource for K12 educators using the Internet and other
technologies in a learning environment. For the Electro-Optics,
Environment, and Material Lab at the Georgia
Tech Research Institute.
- Bibliography of Psychodrama
database, 2002.
- Developed this perl database for the American Society of Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama
- Internet Course Syllabi
-
UNCA
- Athenaeum Talker
- The Internet Class Page
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1994 - 2008
Paula Edmiston
