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Janet Irene Davis

Janet was born in Larimer County Hospital, Fort Collins, Colorado January 1, 1960. At that time I was teaching Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University. Madlon and I were living in Lowry Hall on the CSU campus. Janet has always enjoyed art. She first liked to draw with crayons and felt tipped pens. Later she used water colors and acrylics.

She graduated from Mountain View High School, got a B. A. degree at Los Angeles Baptist College, and a M.A. degree at San Jose State University majoring in Instructional Design and Technology. She obtained an Elementary School Teaching Certificate, an English as a Second Language Certificate, and Bilingual Language Certificate speaking Spanish and Mandarin. She has studied at the Mendocino Art Center in Mendocino, CA.

After teaching fourteen years of bilingual elementary education, she started studying Web Design at Foothill College and worked as an intern at the Ames Resaerch Center, Moffett Field, updating and designing web pages. She worked part time at the Foothill/DeAnza Community Colleges in the faculty on-line computer lab designing web pages for on-line learning courses until budget cuts forced the colleges to terminate the entire department. Janet then taught Quark Desktop Publishing and Graphical User Interface Design at Silicon Valley College in San Jose while taking courses for an On-Line Teaching Certificate at Cal State Hayward. She was then hired to teach Flash in the CAOS (Computer and Office Systems) department at DeAnza College until her job was terminated because she lacked seniority. Her students loved her classes and developed some fun and creative projects. She has put some of her lessons and examples of student work online. http://www.janetdavis.net/flashonline

Janet was asked by the Dean of Distance Learning at Foothill College to be part of a team of instructional designers to work on a special grant program in conjunction with Stanford and MIT to develop open-source courseware. http://sofia.edu

Janet conducts workshops at the Mendocino Art Center in Mendocino, CA. She teaches elementary and advanced methods of using the Adobe Photoshop program. She likes to specialize in working with students who are beginners at using the computer. She knows how to put them at ease and simplify their learning. She seems to be able to communicate at a level where her students have a great experience learning about the Photoshop Program. By the end of the workshops all the students seem to have a real understanding of the program. They must like her as an instructor at the center because she keeps being invited back to teach more workshops.

Janet has her own web site at: www.janetdavis.net. She also works part time as a free lance web page designer and has designed web sites for a number of clients.