• Experiences
• Internet Constructions
• Publications & Presentations
• Professional Development

Interests

Experiences

Computer Consultant, 1985 - present

Information literacy and web design

Currently consulting with CORAL: Collaborative Online Research and Learning; an academic project based in Pennsylvania.

• Beginner and advanced classes on using the Internet for business, collaboration and research
• Design and maintain sites on the World Wide Web
• Online research
• Design and conduct workshops in the use of software
• Install and configure hardware and software
• Consult on software selection and application
• Software experience includes database management, graphics, interactive video, spreadsheets, word processing and telecommunications
• Experienced with Apple, Macintosh, CP/M, DOS and UNIX operating systems
• Experienced with a variety of printers and interface cards
• dBASE and FOX programming for original systems and alterations to existing systems
• Perl and PHP/MySQL programming available
• Software trouble-shooting, on site and over the telephone
• Small business bookkeeping, file organization and cataloging also available

Librarian II, Youth Services Manager, Mobile Public Library, 2005 - 2008

• Planed, directed and documented the Summer Library Program (SLP)
• Balanceed leadership and collaboration among library administration, staff, and community organizations
• Createed an SLP web site that met standards and using technologies such as XHTML, CSS, RSS and JavaScript, while adhering to organizational policies and ensuring accessibility
• Partnered with two other managers to move the library's contents (>100,000 volumes + furnishings) to a temporary location during building. We found careful planning and meticulous mapping made this task run quite smoothly renovation. Then moveed everything again, three more times, after Hurricane Katrina
• Superviseed a staff of four and a base of over 50 volunteers. Supervision of the Main library as scheduled

Librarian I, Reference Librarian, Mobile Public Library, 2003 - 2005

• Provided reference and reader guidance
• Analyzed and updated the library website
• Introduced new technologies such as XHTML, CSS, RSS feeds and JavaScript while achieving technical, organizational and accessibility standards
• Created and deliverd classes and individualized consulting on using computers, the library software and the Internet as a research, community and business tool
• Participated in collectioin management and program development

Consultant, Staff Development Department, Fulton County Schools, Atlanta, GA, 2000-2006

• Designed and conducted online continuing education classes to K12 teachers in the Fulton County school system: Teachers on the Web: designing and publishing websites and Teachers on the Net, an introduction to the Internet
• Performed a complete redesign of the extensive staff development website. Technologies used included RSS feeds, embedded video, CSS, JavaScript. Customized, installed and maintained scripts for a FAQ, search engine (including analysis of searches performed on the site), site mapper, link checker, staff blog, and myriad handouts and guides
• Provided maintenance of the staff development website, including site analysis, search practices

Research Associate: Georgia Tech Research Institute, 1999 - 2000

• Consulted on various educational and nongovernmental projects
• Created content for Foundations for the Future, an industry and government funded project to provide technological assistance to K12 educators
• Initiated innovative programs to involve teachers in the use of technology
• Developed websites for other labs on campus

Webmaster: Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC 1998 - 1999

Designed and maintained the web site for this weekly newspaper. Special interests included CGI applications, navigation and information architecture in complex web sites

Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, UNC-Asheville, 1995 - 1998

Designed and taught classes on computer software and on using the Internet. These classes were taught in a variety of computer labs on a variety of platforms

Instructor, Math department, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC.
1995 - 1997

Designed and taught classes in computer software and on using the Internet. Worked closely with faculty, teaching them how Internet resources can enhance the pedagogical processes of course development. Internet demonstrations for the First Year Seminar Program

Programmer, Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC. 1988 - 1999

Developed Kalu, a business system to track accounting and newspaper layout, in Fox Pro

Director, The Alternative Reading Room, Asheville, NC. 1990 - 94

Responsible for all aspects of this privately funded library: administration, reference, fund raising and operations. Created bibliographic and mailing systems in Fox. Extensive use of the Internet for research and exploration. The first free public resource for Internet use and training in Asheville

Systems Manager Green Line, Asheville, NC. 1990 - 92

Managed computer systems for an environmental newspaper (renamed Mountain Xpress). Responsibilities included maintaining AppleTalk network, troubleshooting software, file conversion between Macs, DOS and CP/M machines. Maintained data and accounting systems

Librarian, Blanton's Junior College, Asheville, NC. 1989 - 90

Responsible for all aspects of library management and services. Created extensive procedures manual and computer systems for cataloging and acquisitions management (in Fox)

Reference Librarian, Ramsey Library, UNC-Asheville. 1987 - 88

Provided reference services, served as principal database searcher and informed the Ramsey library faculty about computer applications in the Public Services Division. Extensive use of Dialog databases and the Internet. Evaluated and updated the print collection of online search guides, compiled and analyzed statistics on online service; selected software and trained library staff in its use; trained staff and patrons to use of the computer-based LS/2000 catalog

Paraprofessional Librarian, 1985 - 1987

Various positions of increasing responsibility in Atlanta libraries, including the Georgia State University Library, Atlanta Public Library and the Emory University Library. Created a dBASE program for the Atlanta Public Library's Foundation Center to track foundations in Georgia

Internet Constructions

Handouts, Guides and Tutorials

I've been making handouts, guides and tutorials all of my professional life. I love the art of documentation. A few examples:

• A number of guides and tutorials are available at my consulting website, The Flying Cat
• I've added some public library oriented handouts to my personal website Nota Bene
• The Site Search at my consulting website contains a brief guide to boolean searching
• More extensive guides and tutorials are available at the Moodle courseweb I developed to teach K12 teachers in Atlanta, GA to use the web as a classroom and research tool.Please see below, under "Online Classes"

CORAL: Collaborative Online Research and Learning

CORAL is a partnership between two Pennsylvania universities, created to teach students to work together online. I've provided their technological support since 1996, almost from the beginning of the project. With this group we have integrated a number of web technologies into their website (some of these applications are password protected but I have permission to offer screen shots):

• The Coral Reef, an academic talker, is built from PHP/MySQL open source. I have permission to take you in to look around
• The calendar
• An image of File sharing and the Guide to Fileman (1.5MB PDF)
• Discussion Forum
• I am learning XML, which I think will be an important element in merging information technologies on the web. CORAL has asked me to create a bibliography database and this experiment in an XML-based CORAL Bibliography is an early test before beginning the full PHP/MySQL project

The American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP)

I've produced a good bit of work for the ASGPP, including this early Perl project of their Bibliography of Psychodrama, which has now been moved to another site.

The Database Finder

The Database Finder is a PGP/MySQL system I created from scratch to access the electronic resources of the Mobile [AL] Public library (connections have been disabled). Admin access will be provided upon request. When I started at the Mobile Library I decided to combine my desire to learn more about their research databases with my interest in learning PHP and MySQL.

Online Classes

For a number of years I taught online classes to K12 teachers through the Atlanta-Fulton County (GA) department of professional development. I installed and customized an open source application, Moodle, for these classes and named it The CourseWeb You are welcome to visit the class, A Teacher's Guide to the Internet as a guest. Each unit of the class begins with an informational handout, followed by a series of assignments. Handouts and tutorials include:

• How to Join a Class
• The unit on searching contains a general overview, Orientation to the Courseware
• About Searching, and information on handling multiple windows. This unit also contains an assignment on searching

Summer Library Program, Mobile Public Library

A sample Summer Library Program (SLP) website [Archived copy] Summer Library Program (SLP) website. It includes a little pop up window containing some Aesop's Fables

Matrix Magic

[archived copy] Matrix Magic was my first consulting website and it was quite extensive. We specialized in ubiquity long before Cloud Computing was a buzz term. Our primary focus was in creating server-side applications to support the work and research of organizations

Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina-Asheville, 1995 - 1998

Designed and conducted the [Archived copy] first Internet research course in the area

Instructor, Warren Wilson College, 1995-1997

[Archived copy] WWC Syllabus

A special information technology demonstration for the WWC [Archived copy] First Year Seminars

Publications/Presentations

NB: Links checked Dec. 8, 2009. Some of these links lead to material archived by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Due to the high volume of traffic it can occasionally take a little time for the pages to load.

The Academic Blog. A RECAP 2005 workshop

The Invisible Web: Finding Resources that Search Engines Miss. A Presentation at RECAP 2004. West Chester University, West Chester, PA.

Making Accessible Websites. RECAP 2003 conference, West Chester University, West Chester, PA.

Treadwell, T., Ashcraft, D., McVeigh, K. & Edmiston, P. (2003). Using on-line collaboration and peer project guides to encourage constructivist learning. Workshop presented at the annual conference on Advancing Teaching in College Classrooms and Campus Cultures held in Harrisburg, PA.

Ashcraft, D., Treadwell, T., McVeigh, K. A., & Edmiston, P. (2003, March). Using technology and peer project guides to promote constructivist learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD.

Treadwell, T., Ashcraft, D., Kumar, K, Edmiston, P., & McVeigh, K. A. (2002, June). Using technology in the classroom to promote collaborative and active learning: CORAL. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans, LA.

Web Browsers as Research Tools. A workshop presented at the Resources for the Electronic Classroom Conference West Chester University, Pennsylvania May 10, 2001.

Treadwell, T., Ashcraft, D. M, Edmiston, P., McVeigh, K. A., Kumar, V. K. (2001, November). Eliminating Common Problems in Distance Education: The CORAL Model. Poster presented at the Computers in Psychology Conference, Orlando, FL.

Treadwell, T., Arsenault, P., Ashcraft, D., Edmiston, P., Barimani, A., Mittan, B. (2000, October). Collaborative Research and Teaching Using On-line and Videoconferencing Technology (MS Word document): An On-line Videoconference Workshop from Three Sites - Pennsylvania, Wyoming and Maine with On-line Web-Based Chat from Georgia. Invited workshop presented at the annual meeting of Community of Agile Partners in Education (CAPE), Harrisburg, PA.

Deus ex machina. (2000) Keynote address at the Resources for the Electronic Classroom Conference. West Chester University, Pennsylvania

Merging Information Technology and Collaborative Teaching, Learning and Research Over the Internet: the Tools. (1999) A presentation at EDUCAUSE 99: Celebrating New Beginnings.

Introduction to HTML and Web Authoring Tools. Emerging Technologies Reshaping Education Workshop. Presented at the 1999 Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions, (HBCU/MI) Educational Technology Expo. Atlanta, GA. Based on the HTML tutorial

Communication Tools for Online Collaboration. (1999) A presentation to the American Psychological Association's Mini convention on Education and Technology, Boston, MA.

Finding Funding Sources on the Internet. (1999) A workshop delivered at the Funding Sources for Technology in Education conference in Atlanta, GA.
      Working Online
      How to Make a Web Page: Learning HTML Workshop

"Tarr at the Edge of the Sea", in Culture of Cyberspace. NY: New Observations. Winter 1999.

Incorporating Ready-Made CGI Scripts into the Curriculum. A presentation at the Teaching With Technology Symposium, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1998.

Moderator for ACLU Forum: Freedom of Speech on the Internet. December 9, 1997.

Negotiating with the Data. In Being Online: Net Subjectivity. Edited by Alan Sondheim. NY:Lusitania Press. 1997.

Quoted in "Scholars Debate the Pros and Cons of Anonymity in Internet Discussions." By Lisa Guernsey. The Chronicle of Higher Education. XLIII:6 October 4, 1996. pp. A23-24.

"Patterns in Urban Food Ways: an Example from Early Twentieth-Century Atlanta" in Archaeology of Urban America: the Search for Pattern and Process. Edited by Roy S. Dickens, Jr. NY: Academic Press, 1982, pp.381-398.

"Zooarchaeological Remains" in Archaeological Investigations at Horseshoe Bend, National Military Park, Alabama. University of Ala.: Alabama Archaeological Society, 1979, 187-195.

Professional Development

Education

• M.Ln. Library & Information Management, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 1985
• A.B. Anthropology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 1981
•       Honors Thesis, Departmental Honors
• Margaret Hall School. Versailles, KY. 1972

Memberships

• American Library Association
• Progressive Librarians Guild
• Mailing List: web4lib
• Mailing List: code4lib
• Mailing List: XML4Lib