{"id":8173,"date":"2021-02-14T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=8173"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:25:00","slug":"2021ambassador-sorrentino","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/2021ambassador-sorrentino\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2021: Niagara &#8211; Deborah Sorrentino"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8174\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSorrentino_Niagara_Photo_350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8174\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSorrentino_Niagara_Photo_350.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Sorrentino\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSorrentino_Niagara_Photo_350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSorrentino_Niagara_Photo_350-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSorrentino_Niagara_Photo_350-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Sorrentino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Deborah Sorrentino<\/strong> is Professor and Coordinator of the Computer Science and Computer Information Systems programs at Niagara County Community College.\u00a0 She has thirty years of experience teaching in higher education and was awarded the SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Teaching.\u00a0 She has been teaching online since the early days of the SUNY Learning Network (now SUNY Online) in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having designed and taught five online courses, it has been a major focus of mine to ensure our Computer Information Systems program is offered entirely online. I am proud of our efforts to provide flexible scheduling with online instruction which has enabled many nontraditional students to obtain a degree in our program over the years.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serving as a quality reviewer for online courses has afforded an opportunity to connect with peers and exchange ideas on how to best present information, provide resources, and encourage student engagement.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe this experience has made me a better educator in both online and traditional settings.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am incredibly excited about the current and future state of online education and the opportunities that it affords to all with a passion for learning.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Sorrentino is Professor and Coordinator of the Computer Science and Computer Information Systems programs at Niagara County Community College.\u00a0 She has thirty years of experience teaching in higher education and was awarded the SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Teaching.\u00a0 She has been teaching online since the early days of the SUNY Learning Network [&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-8173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8173"}],"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=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8273,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8173\/revisions\/8273"}],"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=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}