Please welcome Dr. Smith our newest POD
etc instructor. Dr. Smith will be co-teaching
Survey of Emerging Technologies with Dr. Lovejoy which begins April 12th.
Ron Smith has been a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified
School District for ten years, most recently at Helen Bernstein High School in
Hollywood, CA, teaching art, drawing,digital graphics and video.
He came to teaching by way of photography, after being a
commercial photographer and lab operator for 20 years. Indeed, he became a
teacher by accident. Working in his photo lab before he had any interest in
teaching, he was asked to fill in for a teacher at a local community college.
Later, while working on his master's degree at California State University,
Northridge, he taught himself Photoshop because he needed to create ultra-large
panoramas for his one-man-show show. The art department chair learned of his
experimentation, and asked him to teach a class in Photoshop that lasted more
than two years.
He holds a Bachelor's in Art, and a Master's in Art
Education, both from California State University, Northridge, and a Doctorate
in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.
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