WECLOME!
This is the professional website of Adjunct Professor Richard Geib and his wife, Maria. It serves to help teachers learn to integrate new digital technologies into their classes and strengthen their curriculum, thereby allowing students to learn more and better than previously. The site is focused for teachers in the Ventura County area; mostly it serves students in Mr. Geib's college classes, but it can be used freely by anyone.
Rich Geib teaches as an adjunct professor in two local universities: Azusa Pacific University, and the University of La Verne. He teachers at both these school's satellite campuses in Ventura County.
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Professor Geib teaches for Azusa Pacific University in the Master of Arts in Educational Technology and Learning Program directed by Joanne Gilbreath, Ed.D. He teaches, or has taught, MS Office Productivity Software, Webpage Design for the Classroom, Advanced Educational Psychology, and Digital Video for the Classroom. Mr. Geib is very proud to be able to work in this capacity to help teachers utilize technology in ways that will allow them to teach more effectively than before. Digital technology is relatively new introduction to the classroom, and teachers need not re-invent the wheel and figure it all out for themselves; Mr. Geib hopes to be able to save them time and help teachers to find powerful uses for this technology which is changing so much else in contemporary American culture.
The APU classes are generally for credentialed teachers who already have classroom experience and who wish to move their teaching to a higher level of excellence. The question always starts off with, "Can we do this better with technology than without? Is this the best way we can fashion a lesson to take learning to its deeper levels? How is teaching the same as ever, and how is a teacher today different and perhaps better than before by use of new technologies?"
The idea is to teach wisely, well, and humanely, and then to learn to do those things better than before by the dynamnic use of cutting-edge technology. Relatively speaking, to learn to use the technology is easy. To learn , on the other hand, how to integrate this powerful new digital technology into the craft of building lesson plans, group projects, and engaging and rigorous units is the work of a lifetime. That is where the focus is placed.
UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE
Richard also teaches one course for undergraduates who are working towards satisfying their college class work and earning their teaching credential in the Liberal Studies Deparment at the University of La Verne. This course, Foundations of Education, "serves to introduce students to basic educational philosophies and incorporate them into the larger framework of the American public education system and the ethical and political issues therein.
It is a class full of debate and discussion about what it means to be educated, how we should educate and for larger what purposes, and a myriad of other more specific dialectics in the education field. It is a nice change of pace for a "Professor Geib" who usually more closely focuses on technology and learning.
THE "DAY JOB"
Mr. Geib lives with his wife in Ventura, Ca. area. He specializes in Advanced Placement classes at his day job at Foothill Technology High School. It is a busy life of stack after stack of essays written by hard-core high school students with ambitious academic plans. Mr. Geib's resume and CV can be viewed are also available.
CONTACT
You may contact Professor Geib at contact-me@geibcontact.org.