{"id":8161,"date":"2021-02-11T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=8161"},"modified":"2021-02-17T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:44:54","slug":"2021ambassador-jewett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/2021ambassador-jewett\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2021: Nassau &#8211; Orval Jewett"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8162\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OJewett_Nassau_Photo_350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8162\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OJewett_Nassau_Photo_350.jpg\" alt=\"Orval Jewett \" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OJewett_Nassau_Photo_350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OJewett_Nassau_Photo_350-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OJewett_Nassau_Photo_350-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orval Jewett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Orval Jewett, D.S.W., L.C.S.W.,<\/strong> began his career at Nassau Community College 20 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0He has always been drawn to teaching online.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, he earned his Doctor of Social Work degree online.\u00a0\u00a0Since 2009, Orval has regularly incorporated the use of Blackboard into all his teaching endeavors.\u00a0\u00a0While he earned several other degrees, Orval believes his attraction to online learning has a special place with the education and experience that came with his earning the Master\u2019s degree in Education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am delighted to serve as an advocate for online teaching.\u00a0 I just loves teaching courses online! As a member of the full-time faculty in the Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work department at Nassau Community College, I am the lead faculty in the Human Services degree program.\u00a0 Beginning in 2009, I developed my first course for online delivery.\u00a0 I teach a number of courses, including a disability studies course online and a social work\/case management course online.\u00a0\u00a0Even though I teach only two courses entirely online, I use Blackboard as a means of enhancing student learning in all of my classes.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blackboard can be a powerful teaching tool that makes teaching students that much more pleasurable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the course of the past year, I have worked to develop an understanding of how to facilitate active learning in the form of group activities for students who are taking courses online.\u00a0 I am so happy to be a part of this endeavor as an online teaching ambassador.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orval Jewett, D.S.W., L.C.S.W., began his career at Nassau Community College 20 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0He has always been drawn to teaching online.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, he earned his Doctor of Social Work degree online.\u00a0\u00a0Since 2009, Orval has regularly incorporated the use of Blackboard into all his teaching endeavors.\u00a0\u00a0While he earned several other degrees, Orval believes his attraction to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8277,"featured_media":0,"parent":2473,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8313,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8161\/revisions\/8313"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}