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I joined the District in 1972 and chronologically my careers were I come on initially as instructional designer working for the District Office.
In that role I worked with faculty members throughout the District helping to develop curriculum and instructional materials. A lot of it was instructional materials.
So, I developed coursework in mathematics, English, history, anthropology, nursing, respiratory therapy, auto mechanics, solar energy, etc., etc. developed coursework.
I worked closely with faculty and spent a lot of my time in the classroom. We would evaluate student performances and make adjustments, work on tests, evaluate tests, revise tests.
I also worked, initially the District had an office of radio and television instruction, and we developed courses at ASU at Channel 8 and those were broadcast instruction in the early 70’s, courses were on television.
We also sold some of those to several other community colleges.
Following my work in the District as an instructional designer, I went to work the first year to help establish Rio Salado.
So, I went to work with the year one team at RIO and my job there was to work in developing course materials again and curriculum for RIO.
At that time we did some kind of interesting things because there was a lot of not positive sentiment about RIO when it first started.
There was a lot of concern about “quality”, and yet there was tremendous community demand for new and innovative courses and RIO was very willing to jump in and do that.