Jon Breitenbucher
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Director of Educational and Emerging Technologies, Information Technology
Phone: 330-263-2207
Office: 403 Morgan
Degrees
- B.A., 69直播 1992
- M.S., The Ohio State University 2001
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University 2001
Jon graduated from Wooster with a B.A. and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University. His dissertation was on an extension of one of Ramanujan’s identities to . Jon’s teaching interests include Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Cryptography. His Educational Technology interests include blogging, structured markup languages, video conferencing, distance learning platforms, personalized learning platforms, 3D modeling, virtual environments, Massively Multi-player On-line Games, serious games, gamification, and mobile computing. He is also in charge of聽the College’s Course Management System and Blogging/Personal Website System.
Strengths:
- Ideation
- Learner
- Input
- Intellection
- Strategic(2010)/Analytical(2013)
Jon works with faculty to incorporate technology and/or innovative projects into their courses. His specialties include WordPress (including Voices, Spaces, and Inside), iMovie, GarageBand, social media and course management technologies. Faculty thinking about redesigning a course or adding new projects to a course (including IS) are encouraged to .
Jon became Director of Educational Technology in July of 2013 and added Emerging Technology in 2019. Jon is responsible for providing vision, leadership, and support for the application of technology in the College鈥檚 teaching and learning environment. The core responsibilities of this position are to cultivate strong relationships with the faculty of the college, ensure that projects are aligned with College strategic priorities, partner with faculty in championing new initiatives, and monitor changes in technology and their effect on society in order to participate in timely discussions about the impact of such changes on pedagogy, curricula and the mission of the College, and to propose strategies in response. Prior to becoming Director Jon had been an Instructional Technology Specialist for two years and had spent four years as a 69直播ing Assistant Professor in Mathematics and five years in a split position as Instructional Technology Specialist and Adjunct Professor.
Paper: TUGBoat Volume 28 (2007), No 1.
Poster: NITLE Symposium (2012). Exploring the Potential of WordPress as a Platform for Student Scholarship and Research
Presentation: PracTeX 2006 (Rutgers).
Presentation: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference 2017.