Curriculum Vita

Betsy Price
1253 Bethel New Richmond Road 
New Richmond, Ohio 45157
956-466-0182    BetsyMitchell on Skype
betsy.price@utb.edu  Betz Darwinian on Second Life
View my ePortfolio on http://betsypriceportfolio.blogspot.com/


Education
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

ABD Science Teacher Education, Physics

Teaching Assistant, Department of Theory and Practice

Physics Instructor – Project Discovery

Member Ken Wilson (Nobel Prize Laureate) Physics Education Research Group

Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky

Masters of Arts in Education
Secondary Science Environmental Education May 1992

Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

BS Art Education
Special K-12 Teaching Certification
Phi Eta Tau Honor Society

University of Guadalajara, Mexico

Summer 1968, Art and Mexican Culture

Employment
University of Texas Brownsville/Texas Southmost College

Associate Faculty, Support Office for Part Time Faculty, June 2004 – Retired May 2015

Director, Center for Teaching and Learning January 2010 – present

Second Life Islands Lead

Provost Fellow

Adjunct, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science – Cultural Geography

Adjunct, University Experience with the University College

My position began as the Support Office for Part Time Faculty and in 2010 broadened the clientele to create a Center for Teaching and Learning that included full time faculty, tenured track, lecturers, and grad students. We are now working on creating UTB 2.0  as UTB gears up to be a stand-alone four year college. This has been a rewarding position, unfortunately, UTB will be downsizing in the next couple years.  Please visit the UTB website and click on Transition:  http://www.utb.edu

Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah

Director Teagle Grant, Adjunct Support Services Jan. 2000 – May 2004

Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah

Education Director June 1998 – October 1999

University of Utah School of Medicine, Utah Museum of Natural History and Eccles Institute for Human Genetics partner grant 801-581-7200  

Director, The Natural History of Genes Sept 1994 – June 1998

The Genetic Science Learning Center.  

Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, Cincinnati, Ohio
Special Events Coordinator Sept 1986 - Jan 1991

Weekend Manager Sept 1989 - 1991

College Courses Taught

Physical Science for Educators - University of Texas at Brownsville
Stars and Galaxies Lab - University of Texas at Brownsville

University Experience – University of Texas at Brownsville Freshman experience class to promote retention and college success

Cultural Geography – University of Texas at Brownsville – Cultural Geography for education majors.

Educational Technology – Westminster College at Salt Lake City – Technology course for education majors

Student Teaching – The Ohio State University – Student teaching observations and accompanying seminar

Introduction to Biology – Cincinnati Technical College – Biology course for developmental students entering lab technology programs

Science Methods - Ohio State University –– Methods course for elementary education majors.

Physics Methods for High School Teachers – Ohio State University – Project Discovery institute for high school teachers

Genetics – University of Utah – Certification course in genetic science for high school teachers

Teaching College Science – University of Utah, Biology Department – course for graduate students and post docs in teaching science on a college level using technology

Select Professional Development Workshops

Grant Writing – Educated and Organized grant writing teams in a department and cross departments

Faculty Writing Club – Met with faculty once a month to review where they were in publications, organized teams, and set writing goals

Paragraph Writing Certificate Program – Cross campus team that developed a paragraph writing certificate program for faculty to add writing to their courses and without greatly increasing grading and commenting time

ePortfolios – Beginning stages of organizing a committee to create a online workshops for faculty and students to develop ePortfolios

Adjunct Orientation and Retention – Created an online orientation, BCPImpact and face to face orientation and retention activities

Teaching Assistants Orientation – Created a cross campus orientation for graduate teaching assistants

Virtual Worlds – Developed an online training for students and faculty using virtual worlds

Technology Supported Learning – Beginning stages of developing a certification program for faculty on appropriately integrating technology in their courses.

Committees and Service

University Consortium for Virtual Worlds - Stephen Gasior, The University of New Orleans lead to build a multi-university virtual world for biology

University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas

Provost Fellow – Responsibilities are to promote faculty recruitment and retention

Clickers – Organized faculty committee to chose a clicker venue, organize workshops, and work with faculty one on one.  Created an online training.

UNIV eTextbook Committee – Committee to develop an online, interactive textbook for the University Experience Classes

Redesign of Orientation – Campus wide committee to redesign freshman orientation

Paragraph Writing – Committee to develop workshops to educate faculty across the curriculum how to add writing standards and activities in all courses.

Virtual University Committee – Lead a faculty committee to set department standards for technology and software and seek ways in which to apply for grants and funding for technology

Welfare Committee, Faculty Senate, University of Texas at Brownsville – Investigate current issues in faculty well being including salaries, policies, professional development

Dual Enrollment – Rouge faculty committee to increase oversight, rigor and procedures for a runaway dual high school/college enrollment program

Westminster College, Salt Lake City

Making Education Affordable and Better – Committee to investigate ways that Westminster faculty could conserve overhead costs and, at the same time, improve student learning.

Strategic Planning Committee – All faculty and staff participated in this process.  Greatest experience of my higher education career.  http://www.westminstercollege.edu/strategic_planning/index.cfm?parent=1050&detail=5040

Books

Price, Betsy. Managing Technology in Our Schools: Establishing Goals and Creating a Plan. Rowman & Lirllefield Publishing Group, 2011.

Chapters

Gates, Ward M., Betsy Price and Alex M Bodzin. "Implementing Technology-Rich Curricular Materials: Findings from the Exploring Life Project." Johnson, D I and Cleborne D Maddox. Technology in Education: A Twenty-Year Retrospective. Hawthorn Press, 2003.

Publications

Price, Betsy and Alan Fomorin. "Research in Museum Visitor Studies as Applied to Virtual World Educational Design." Journal of Virtual World and Education (2011) Submitted.

Price, Betay. "Bad Economy? Good for Technology." Principal Leadership (2010).

Price, Betsy. "Getting Help in Making Your District Technology Rich." School Leader (2008).

Price, Betsy. "The Battle for Control of the Technology Integrated School." Principal Leadersip (2008).

Price, Betsy. "How to Narrow the Digital Divide in Your School." Principal Magazine (2003).

Price, Betsy. "The Midsized Computer to Accomplish Big Tasks." Principal Magazine (2003).

Cates, Ward M, Price Betsy and Alex Bodzin. "Implementing Technoloyg Rich Curriculuar Materials Finding from the Exploring Life Project." Computers in Schools (2005).

Price, Betsy. "The Midsized Computer to Accomplish Big Tasks." Principal Magazine (2003).

Price, Betsy and Steve Barr. "The Impact Part Time Faculty Have on Teachers." Theories and Practice  in Supervision and Curriculum, The Journal for the Utah Association for Supervision and Curriculum development vXII (2001).

Price, B. & Baar, S. "Teaching Safely." Adjunct Info (2000).

Price, Betsy "Good Natured Genetics." Teaching PreK-8 (1999).

Price, Betsy. "The Importance for Preservce Teachers to Have Practice Experiences to Apply Theory to Reality." Electronic Journal of Science Education (1998).

Price, Betsy. "What Do You Do When the Student Teacher Assigned to You Wants to Do Hands-On Science?" Teaching PreK-8 (1996).

Price, Betsy and Jay Russett. "Internet for Non-Nerds." Teaching PreK-8 (1996). (accepted manuscript pulled by authors because of fast innovations)

Price, B. (Sept/Oct), 1994) Book Review: Indians in prisons and the American Indians in the white man's prisons. A story of genocide. The Criminologist.

Price, Betsy."The Criminologist and the Indian." The Criminologist (1994).

Feldkamp-Price, B. & Smith, D. (October 1994). Teaching about Indians, Teaching PreK-8.

Price, Betsy, Peter Rillero and Brownstein Erika. "The Science Activity Filter: Guidelines for Improving the Selection of Science Activities." Association for the Education of Teachers in Sci8ence, 1994.

Bronstein, Erika, Peter Rillero and Betsy Feldkamp-Price. "What Do I Do With All These Activities?" Science Activities (1994).

Feldkamp-Price, Betsy, Peter Rilero and Erika Brownstein. "Filtering for the Best Science Activity." Teaching PreK-8 (1994).

Feldkamp, Betsy. "Book Review: Biodegradable Detergents and the Environment." Journal of the  Ohio Academy of Science (1992).

Feldkamp, B. Ed. (1992). Shawnee Crafts, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.

 
Presentations

Price, Betsy, Cano, Grace.  “Technology to Promote Student Retention and Success” Southwest Teaching and Learning Conference, 2012 Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas

Price, Betsy. “Bringing Students and Faculty to Virtual Worlds to Enhance Learning in Higher Ed”.  Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) , 2011 Annual Conference, held in Second Life

Cano, Gracie, Anyo, Edwin; Price, Betsy. “Undergraduate Builders to Create a Virtual Teaching Community”, 2011 University of North Carolina Teaching and Learning with Technology held in Second Life, April 12-14 2011.  (Undergraduate presentation)

Presentations have been lost on a wayward Mac, will submit shortly.  My apologies.
 
Awards, Grants and Fellowships

National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence Awards, 2012 NISOD Excellence Award for teaching and learning.

NSF NOYCE Scholarship, with Jerzy Mogilski, Rey Remariez, and Sonjay Kumar scholarships and support for STEM majors to earn an alternative certification degree. $450,000

Texas Coordinating Board with Jerzey Mogilski for  redesign of elementary statistics and developmental mathematic courses $350,000.

Department of Defense with Jerzey Mogilski for tablet computers to be used in the redesign of entry level math courses $500,000.

FIPSI Grant with Ruppart Tang for a mathematics and computer science summer academy to train high school students to do research at UTB with undergraduates and graduate. 400,000

NSF CAREER Grant with Rick Jenet (PI) for research in pulsar timing and the establish an undergraduate research program $400,000

TG Public Benefit Program with Linda Fossen to aid in recruiting underrepresented students $450,000

American Physical Society, Physics on the Boarder $10,000

Eccles Foundation, Utah Museums Association, with Phyllis Hockett and Merit Mayham $75,000.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, grant to renew the Natural History of Genes with Dorothy Dart and $350,000 Ellen Wilson.

National Institute of Health, University of Utah School of Medicine. $250,000 grant. Minority Initiative K-12

NIH Teachers and High School Students with Dr. Jerry Kaplan, P.I. and Theresa Hernandez, Minority Affairs, Summer Biomedical Laboratory Research Program for Underserved Minority Students and Teachers. $450,000

Utah Centennial Commission, Indian Children Today and Tomorrow, $2,500 grant to produce a Children’s Pow Wow at the Children’s Museum of Utah.

Nebraska Humanities Council, September, 1993. With David I. Smith, Tribal Historian, $2,000 grant to produce Winnebago Myths and Legends.

Harold C. Miles Graduate Fellowship. June 1993, The Ohio State University $1,500 Ohio State Board of Regents Grant.

The Ohio State University $1 0,000 grant with Dr. Roger Cunningham and Dan Keller, Equipment upgrade for the elementary science methods education lab.

Department of Energy Workshop Human Genetics and Genome Analysis. A Practical Workshop of Opinion Leaders and Public Policy Maker’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, February 1992.

Ohio Arts and Ohio Humanities Council Joint Program, Shawnee Crafts 1992 Grant to teach Shawnee crafts: Pipe-carving, loom beading, basket weaving, and feather and porcupine quillwork $5,000.In-house Publication

Practitioner Publications and In-House Publications

Cincinnati Technical College Introductory Biology: Lab Manual: In-house laboratory manual, (1991).

Feldkamp-Price, Betsy and Dennis L Smith. Winnebago Myths and Legends: A Cultural Guide. Lincoln, Nebraska: United Chruch Ministries, (1994).

Cincinnati Museum of Natural History Shawnee Crafts; Craft Manuel for teachers and hobbyists to do authentic Shawnee folk art  (1986).

Cincinnati Museum of Natural History The Brownie Manual: An in-house instructional booklet for producing, selling, and implementing large group programs. (1984).

Popular Articles
Price, Betsy. "Arbitration." The Criminal Record (2001): 1.

Price, Betsy. "Senior Judges Help Course Alleviate Case Overload and Serve the Cause of Justice." The Criminal Record (2000).

Price, Betsy.  "Following the DNA Trail." Salt Lake Tribune (1995): J1, J3.

Price, Betsy "Taking Charge of Your Child's Education." Image De Utah (1995): 17.

Price, Betsy. "American's First Museums: From P.T. Barnum to Robotic Insects - Museums Teach Fun." Salt lake City Tribune (1995).

Blogs

UTB Center for Teaching and Learning http://betsypriceutb-centerforteachingandlea.blogspot.com/

 
Professional Organizations, Community Service, and Boards
Science Circle, International network for scientists and educators on virtual worlds, 2010 to present
Brownsville Independent School District Bond Oversight Committee, 2009 to present

Vice Chairperson 2010 to present

The National Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development 2005 - present
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) 2005 – present
Texas Faculty Developers Network, 2006 – present
Conference Chair 2012
Professional Women Speak 2006 – present

Co-Chair First Annual Women’s Conference 2010

Webmaster - 2010

Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts Trustee 2008- 2010
KMBH Radio and Television 2004 – present

Managing Board Member 2008

Volunteer – Membership Campaigns

The Utah Museums Association

Board of Trustees, Secretary 1998 - 2004
Newsletter chair 2000 - 2004

Utah Women's Association for Building Alliance

Board of Trustees, Webmaster 2000 - 2004

The Volunteer Center

Vice Chair Board Member 1999 - 2000

KRCL Community Radio

Fund raising committee 1998 - 2004

Board of Directors, Volunteer Representative for Public Affairs Programs 1998 - 2000

The Association of Educators of Teachers in Science

Technology Committee 1996-1998

The Journal of Elementary Science Education

Editorial Board 1994 - 1999

The Electronic Journal of Science Education

Editorial Board 1994 - 2002

  
Commercial Products

bcpImpact:  an electronic support system for administrators, department chairs and support service to manage the support and professional development of adjunct professors Co-Developer with Scott Warren Taylor http://www.bcpImpact.com

Consulting

Biology: Exploring Life An electronic textbook project with Lehigh University and Peregrine Publishing, Summative Evaluation Consultant

The Genetic Science Learning Center, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Consultant

Florida State Department of Cultural Affairs On-site reviewer for Cultural Institutions Program

Microbiolocal Literacy Collaborative Community Outreach Steering Committee Washington D.C. Collaborative project to increase science literacy in microbiology. Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth companion curriculum for informal educators. American Society for Microbiology

The National Biology Teachers Association, Washington D.C.Project: Evaluator for Biotech on a Shoestring. Kathy Frame, Program Director

The Museum of Biodiversity, The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio. Project: Front-end analysis for planning the goals and objectives of the museum’s programs and exhibits. Todd Stucey, Museum Director.

 
Media
Talk for the Animals

Monthly public affairs program on animals and conservation. KRCL Radio May 1998 – May 2001 Co-host with Mark Natt and producer

Money up Front

Weekly public affairs program on personal finances. KRCL Radio April 2000 - May 2001

Museum Notes

Co-Host with Ann Hannibal monthly public affairs program on the natural world. KRCL Radio June 1996 - April 1998

References:
Anastasia Lawrence, Lecturer, Criminal Justice
Universality of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Brownsville Campus

SETB 1114A

One West University Blvd.

Brownsville, Texas 78520

956-882-6569

anastasia.lawrence@utrgv.edu

Juanita Ibarra, M. Ed.
San Benito School ISD
Mathematics

David Hinojosa,Lecturer

Communication

UTRGV

MAIN 1210D

Brownsville Campus

One West University Blvd.

Brownsville, Texas 78520

956-882-7819

david.hinojosa@utrgv.edu


Karin Lewis, Assistant Professor

Human Development & School Services

UTRGV

MAIN 1504A

Brownsville Campus

One West University Blvd.

Brownsville, Texas 78520

956-882-5704
karin.lewis@utrgv.edu

Sharaf Rehman, Professor

Communication

UTRGV

MAIN 1210E

Brownsville Campus

One West University Blvd.

Brownsville, Texas 78520

956-882-7222

sharaf.rehman@utrgv.edu

Louis Falk,Professor

Communication

MAIN 1210C

One West University Blvd.

Brownsville, Texas 78520

956-882-8977
louis.falk@utrgv.edu

Jeffrey Wilson, PhD, Dean
Huston-Tillotson University
900 Chicon Street
Austin, TX 78702
512.505.3000
Profe Camino in Second Life

Robin Heyden, Educational Consultant and Author
rheydon@comcast.net
Spiral Theas on Second Life

Student References:
Grace Cano Graduate from UTB, History, UNIV peer mentor and vUTB Master Builder grace_cano@ymail.com