Biography

Judith Tabron is the director of Faculty Computing and Student Computing at Hofstra University. These departments include instructional design; distance learning development; academic software purchase, implementation and support; assessment data gathering and support; our new Learning Support team, to help students learn with digital tools, with our newly renovated Calkins Learning Lab; and our student help desk which includes repair.

Working at Hofstra University since 2004, Dr. Tabron has spearheaded such University-wide initiatives as: developing the University's first distance learning programs; creating classroom standards and design guidelines; lifecycle budget planning for classroom equipment; e-portfolios and other assessment data gathering tools; coordinating IT for the University's new Medical School, opened 2011; creating a new Learning Support division of Student Computing services; and introducing an innovative new training program for faculty preparing to teach in distance learning formats, wherein faculty are trained online in cohorts themselves. These are in addition to keeping Hofstra's academic computing resources and services up to date and publicizing them to the community including training and support.

Previously Dr. Tabron built Brandeis University's original Center for Instructional Multimedia and Technology (CIMTech) and was the director of Brandeis' Academic Technology Services department including its language lab, CIMTech, audio-visual services, and computing classrooms. She has also served as an instructor in English at Slippery Rock University, PA. Her Ph.D. is in English and American Literature and she has published on postcolonial theory and pop culture. She currently teaches a course on global media and its sales for the department of Geography and Global Studies at Hofstra.

Judith Tabron is a Frye Leadership Institute alumna from 2008, co-class president of the Bryn Mawr College class of 1990, and the founding Information Officer on the executive board of the New York state chapter of the American Council on Education's Women's Network. She hosts a roundtable of instructional technologists from the New York and Long Island area periodically at Hofstra University, and strongly believes in networks and shared resources for professional development and for higher education in general.

Faculty computing tips and thoughts are distributed from http://facultycomputing.blogspot.com
Visit our documentation wikis, http://hofstrateach.org for FACULTY and http://hofstralearn.org for STUDENTS
Learning Support now tweets at http://twitter.com/HofstraSCS
And Student Computing is on Facebook at http://facebook.com/HofstraSCS

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