About Patrick Crispen

Patrick Crispen is the Instructional Technology Coordinator at a major university in Southern California. He is a doctoral student in the higher education administration program at the University of Southern California (estimated graduation: 2010). He also holds a masters degree in educational technology from Pepperdine University (2001) and a bachelors degree in economics from the University of Alabama (1998).

Prior to moving to California, Patrick was the Internet Training Materials Specialist for the Internet Network Information Center (the InterNIC) at Network Solutions where he was the program manager for the internationally-acclaimed 15 Minute Series, a series of free PowerPoint-based Internet training presentations. Patrick was also a Simulations Director for, and founding staff member of, the United States Space Camp's Space Academy Level II program (now called "Advanced Space Academy.")

In the fall of 1994, Patrick created a free, 27 lesson Internet training workshop called "Roadmap." Over 500,000 people participated in Roadmap, making it the most popular Internet training workshop in history. Patrick also co-authored two classroom textbooks, Atlas for the Information Superhighway (1996) and Web Page Design (1999), and is the co-author of the Internet Tourbus, a free semi-weekly Internet newsletter read by over 100,000 people in over 130 countries. Tourbus celebrated its eleventh anniversary in the Summer of 2006, and PC World rated Tourbus as one of the Internet's 15 best newsletters.

Since October of 1997, Patrick has been an invited, weekly panelist on a call-in radio show on WGN Radio in Chicago. The show, the “Website Wednesday Night” portion of the “Steve and Johnnie” show, is broadcast live to 38 states and most of Canada on AM 720 and is also simulcast over the Internet. Callers from around the country ask computer- and technology-related questions which Patrick, and a panel of two other experts, answer.

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