Who is this guy?
Larry MacPhee started his professional career as an evolutionary biologist. He has helped to reestablish bald eagle populations, researched the loss of body armor in stickleback fishes, aging in fruit flies, and sex-switching in endangered Hawaiian plants. He was named a 1996 Access Excellence Fellow by the Biotech pioneer, Genentech. He has worked as a technology mentor and high school Biology teacher in Southern California, and as a technology instructor and computer support specialist for the University of California, Irvine. Since moving to Flagstaff, AZ, Larry has taught classes for the Biology Department and Liberal Studies at Northern Arizona University. For the Science Learning Center, he has led workshops on educational technology for school teachers in Flagstaff and on the Navajo reservation. He was awarded an Eisenhower Math and Science Grant in the Summer of 2000. In 2001, he became Director of the Center for Technology Enhanced Learning, NAU's online learning support group. In 2006, Larry became the Associate Director of e-Learning at Northern Arizona University. During Spring, 2007 Larry worked as a consultant for Blackboard in Washington, D.C. and telecommuted to NAU. Now back in Flagstaff, he is developing and delivering a wide array of training workshops on Web 2.0 tools and instructional technologies for the modern classroom.
When not working, Larry likes to spend time with his big kids, Michael and Julia, his little kids, Carson and Thomas, and wife Alice. He skiis and plays hockey in Winter, bicycles in Summer, backpacks the Grand Canyon in Spring and Fall, and tinkers with technology most of the time.
Washington, D.C.
My family spent Spring, 2007 in Washington, D.C. Alice was on sabbatical at George Washington University. I worked for Blackboard as a consultant, and telecommuted part-time for NAU. We enjoyed the Smithsonian museums, cherry blossoms on the mall, the zoo in Woodley Park, the metro (for its own sake) and being close to Alice's family in Annapolis.