Introducing...
Robert Voelker-Morris. The merging of technology and education is an exciting combination of interests for me personally and professionally. Over the years I have worked in both areas, and recently have been able to combine the two into my own online instruction. I look forward to coming to a position that allows me to share my knowledge and experience as well as learning from all the wonderful colleagues at the UO.
My instructional background includes: Arts and Visual Literacy (AAD 251) both in the classroom and online going on four years now, a 410/510 level Art and Media Literacy course for the Arts and Administration Program, and co-taught the freshman seminar 'zines and Do It Yourself Democracy' with Doug Blandy. I have also guest lectured in Art and Gender (AAD 252), Art and Human Values (AAD 250), Visual Communication and Mass Media (J 204), and Research Methods (AAD 630). Currently, I am teaching Research Proposal, and co-teaching with my wife, Julie, a freshman seminar on Creative Collaboration, both for the Arts and Administration Program.
My background as a student involves a Masters degree in Arts and Administration with a concentration in museum studies at the UO, and a Bachelors degree in Art History from Oregon State University (and yes this does make my late November interesting). Of great interest to me as both an instructor and student are the topics of visual and media literacy, art history, photography, cinema studies, and digital media within the history of the arts.
The technology side of me has progressed from a personal interest in computer and html programming to museum digital preservation. In 2003 I assisted in an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership grant application, which was a collaboration between the Museum of Natural and Cultural History and University Libraries. We were awarded the grant in September 2003 for a project archiving local photographer and audio archivist Don L. Hunter's multiple slide projector presentations. These dynamic presentations featured Pacific Northwest natural and cultural history and were cutting edge, precursors to current multi-media technology. (For more information about Mr. Hunter visit the Web site I created for a 2003 museum exhibit of his photographs: The Don L. Hunter Legacy.) Over the next three years I worked, as the Porject Coordinator, closely with Media Services to convert Mr. Hunter's analogue slide presentations into the DVD format, which will be distributed in 2007 to Oregon's middle and high schools. It was a wonderful honor to take part in a project that was part digital archive, part educational programming, and part Northwest oral history preservation. For more information about the project please visit the Museum's Web site. (NOTE: The links featured here will open in new browser windows)
I was born and grew up in Eugene, and enjoy my time with the family-Julie, Isaac, and Elise-who all teach me something new each day.
Email Robert at rmorris1@uoregon.edu.
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