engage - transforming teaching and learning through technology
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about engage
Engage’s mission is to transform teaching and learning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and beyond.

past project assistants

Former PA's involved in the Engage program:

Project Assistants
Irene Borngraber
Sirisha Karamchedu
Hans Klar
Luiz Lopes
Homero Gil de Zuniga

 

PROJECT ASSISTANTS


Homero Gil de Zuniga
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Homero holds a Ph.D. in European Studies at Universidad Europea de Madrid and is a PhD Candidate to his second doctoral degree in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison. He is part of the PAs group working at DoIT Academic Technology. As such, he is currently developing the strategies of creating enhanced/video content for Podcasts in conjunction to Jan Cheetman. As academic, his interests revolve around new media and their impact in the civic and political participatory realms. Alas for us, Homero will be joining the University of Texas-Austin next Fall as assistant professor.

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Sirisha Karamchedu
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Sirisha is a graduate student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her prime area of focus is Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and GIS. She has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering. She worked as a lecturer in India for 5 years in the department of Computer Science and Engineering. She has skills in teaching, multimedia, web designing, distributed operating systems, architecture, system software, algorithmic analysis and design, complier construction, and testing.

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Hans Klar
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Hans is a Project Assistant at Academic Technology, DoIT and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Hans’ role at DoIT is to evaluate the effectiveness of Engage projects. Prior to arriving at the UW-Madison, Hans spent 15 years teaching, training teachers and managing educational programs in Australia, China, Indonesia and Japan. Hans’ current academic interests are focused on enhancing educational leaders’ abilities to enhance leadership capacity within their organizations.

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Luiz Lopes
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Luiz is a Ph.D. student in Educational Communications and Technology in C&I and a Project Assistant at DoIT Academic Technology. He is interested in using technologies that can be accessed via the Web for teaching and learning. He taught ESL for over 11 years in Brazil and was a Teaching and Project Assistant while pursuing his Master's in Instructional Technology at Northern Illinois University. His skills include teaching, Web design and development, database design, image, audio and video editing as well as working with different file formats for these media. Luiz has had experience working with Adobe's Photoshop and Acrobat, Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Flash and Authorware, Studio 8, iMovie, Vegas, and Audacity.

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