Flagship computer courses In 1986, Raritan Valley (then Somerset County Community College) received a grant for an ATT 6300 computer lab — their first IBM compatible lab. I was asked to develop the core courses and to teach them for the community. One course, Lotus 1-2-3 was offered for 8 years and was responsible for many resident´s improviding their career opportunities.
Lon developed the curriculum for the first program for the business community when their Att 6300 lab opened in 1986. The courses included Introduction to the PC, Lotus 1-2-3, Wordstar, and dBase. Through the years Lon developed courses including Paradox, multimedia, desktop publishing, computer consulting, memory and hard disk management, and DOS batch file programming. Lon also conducted courses on Access, Windows, Excel and Business on the Internet.
Before Raritan had any multimedia computer facilities, Lon designed a multimedia survey course and and “information highway” course. Lon would cart his own computer equipment possessing the latest multimedia technology to each class and return it back at the end.
More recently Lon guided the department into the Web curriculum. Lon has designed and delivers courses on HTML, Javascript, CSS, Flash, Dreamweaver, PHP, Active Server Pages, Databases on the Web, Web Design and Visual Basic Script.
Lon planned for the Fall 2005 courses in eLearning in an effort to keep that department in the forefront of the information technology needs of the community.