Dr. Bob Kistler

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Lead Faculty IT Consultant

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Roles at Bethel University

  • Helping faculty in the effective use of technology to help students learn both in and outside of the classroom. 
  • Serving as an advocate for technology support and initiatives for the campus academic community.

    • Lead Faculty Instructional Technology Consultant
    • Blackboard Course Administrator
    • Adjunct Professor College of Arts & Sciences
    • Adjunct Professor, Graduate School

Brief Biography

I joined Bethel University as an Assistant Professor of Biology in Fall 1986 and progressed up to Professor of Biology.  In  June 2001 I took a position as Bethel's first full time Faculty Instructional Technology  Consultant. I am an Ecologist by training, but throughout my academic career I was always at the forefront of technology.  During my M.S. work at Purdue University, I worked on insect population ecology and during the analysis of my data I spent lots of time in the basement of the Math building punching and processing data cards using a CDC6500 mainframe as well as doing computer modelling using a PDP1170. During my doctoral work in systems ecology at Northern Arizona University, I completed my entire dissertation using the campus mainframe and was the first graduate student to print their disseration using a computer. When I joined the Biology Department at Bethel, I first started programming an Apple II to do some basic simulations, then progressed to developing a physiology acquistion system using National Instruments LabView and Apple Macintosh computers. I consider myself a technology intuitive and work extensively with a diversity of current and emerging learning technologies.  In Fall 2003 I pioneered a graduate course in online teaching (COMM722 Effective Teaching Online) taught fully in the online environment and then in Spring 2007 taught Bethel's first fully online undergraduate general education science, technology, and society course (ENS305K: Transforming Technology).

Faculty Workshops Please use the online form to request an appointment for a one-on-one training session or help if you don' t find a workshop to meet your needs..

June 2008 - August Workshops on Multimieda, Blackboard, Connect, and Silva are in the planning stages. [Workshop Homepage]

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Educational Background

 

Current & Upcoming Courses

  • COMM722 On-line Teaching (April 12 - May 24, 2008 online)
  • ENS305K Transforming Technology (Spring 2007 CAS Online Course, next offered online Spring 2009)
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