About me

I live in Bloomington, Indiana with my husband, three cats, and two dogs. I work as a Digital Archivist for the Indiana Geological and Water Survey (on the I.U. campus). Basically I specialize in file creation, compression, metadata, and loading into our content management system. I also am the on-demand photographer, designer, illustrator, and software tutor. More often, I'm correcting the OCR on 700-page geological texts from the early 20th century.

I grew up in Southern California and attended college and grad school there. I hold bachelors degrees in biology and visual art, and a Masters of Fine Art in photography and digital media. As planned, I taught photography, video, and digital media as art forms, and exhibited my photographs around the country--for fifteen years. Then I needed a change; I felt burned out. I was also tired of "required art" to met research requirements. (I do long obsessive, research-heavy projects.) 

We moved here about 6 years ago after I left teaching. The last several years, I have been working at I.U. in digitization and archives, first at the Lilly Library, and now with the IGWS. I enjoy what I do but there is no growth path for me there. (At my annual review, when asked about my career advancement plans, I joked I could work my way up to State Geologist.)

This course is my "taste-test" of the Instructional Systems Technology program, either the M.Ed. or the certificate, to see if it is a good fit with my teaching and design experience.