User:RMccleary
Ron McCleary
Ron is assistant professor of computer science at Avila University in south Kansas City, Missouri. He has been at Avila for 14 years. Before that, he was Director of Corporate Information Systems for Terracon, a national engineering consulting company with headquarters in the Kansas City area. Before that, he was at Rockhurst University in Kansas City for 13 years, four of them as a computer science instructor and nine as Director of Computer Services.
Avila is a liberal arts schools sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. The Computer Science Department offers three majors: computer science, software engineering, and a newly approved one in health informatics. Ron teaches a variety of courses that includes operating systems, computer organization and architecture, database, networking, systems analysis and design, Java, and C#.
Ron's interests and activities outside the classroom include reading, hiking, and teaching in the education program of his church.
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How do people interact? While the meeting has a "flow" to it, because of the asynchronous characteristics of the typed responses, it is more of be a flow with ripples.
What is the pattern of communication? Is it linear or branched? Formal or informal? One-to-many, one-to-one or a mix? Generally, a linear flow of ideas but with a lot of small branching in and out of the current theme. It is informal. Generally, it is one-to-many, interspersed with occasional one-to-one communications; i.e. it is a mix.
Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning? Don't think I noticed any.
Can you make any other observations? At first, I thought the comments to oneself (the /me commands) were inhibiting the flow of the meeting. On further reflection, I think they add value by giving a little comic relief.
