Perl | Lon Hosford

Web Master Seminar Presenter

NJIT, New Jersey Institute Of Technology, sent out a recruiter looking for an Instructor that could pull together the highly popular Web Master Certification program. They found that instructor running self-developed like courses at a local community college, Raritan Valley Community College. Lon quickly became the popular instructor in the program both on-line and in live classrooms. His command of the written language and general communication skills proved essential to the success. NJIT requested Lon to develop additional course for the program and was often called in for special clients. Lon became the Web Master´s Mentor.

Web Master Courseware Developer

NJIT´ Web Master´ Program expanded from core courses to include specialized advanced topics. Lon participated in the application of the core course materials and from his analysis and feedback was choosen to develop the Java programming courseware. The Java courseware was designed to work in both online and live seminar programs. The courseware included realistic business software applications. To handle the difficult problem of presenting such detailed and comprehensive examples, Lon pioneered with “incremental exercises;”. These exercises showed a complicated Java programming solution in sequential exercises that highlighted the changes. The changes in the software was linked to the incremental topics presented.

2007 -ICE – Interactive Communications and Entertainment – Program

Lon provided advice and course development for the ICE program. This was a revamp of the old Multimedia Degree to encompass the changes in the industry.

1989 Web Developer Certification Program Designer

Lon participated with Dr. Ruth Malstrom, Chair for the Computer Department, to create one of the nation´s first Web Developers Certificate. The Web Developer Certificate is still granted today. Lon was on the receiving list of an internal email from then MIS Director Roger Doty. The email came from the academic director suggesting a virtual reality course at RVCC. Lon buzzed back accidentally to the entire mail list instead of just Roger and caught Ruth´s attention. Lon was invited in and within days had a curriculum in place for the next semester. Lon went on to teach Designing the New Media, the capstone course in the program. The Web Developer Certiciate became one of the most popular and highest enrollment programs in the Computer department.

1989 Multimedia Associate Degree

Lon also was asked by Dr. Malstrom to energize the new Multimedia Communications Degree. The program was languishing due to a lack of available reliable instructors and computer lab infrastructure. Lon took the two advanced courses for the degree and developed them to use the common technology in the industry and continued to provide input to RVCC to keep the technology up-to-date. As a result, many Multimedia Communications Degree graduates from RVCC experience with technology currently applied in the industry such as Director and Flash. To his credit, Lon offered temporary employment to students in the program to apply what they learned in real business appliations. Every student who participated with these projects obtained full time employment in their field on or before graduation.

Internet Media Adjunct Associate Professor

Lon continues as an Adjunct Associate Professor.

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