New Ways of Teaching: Skipper McFarlane

Digital Arts professor blazes trails by testing web-based teaching tools

The first thing you notice about Skip McFarlane's tiny office tucked away in an obscure corner of Millrace I is that toy superheroes are lined up on his bookshelf.

Many of these, it turns out, were made by Skip as part of his 1998 UO MFA project. The protagonist in this tableau is "The Designer," a four-inch-tall replica of Skip himself, dressed in a blue smock, pointing the way forward with an extended paintbrush.

Now that Skip's real-life role is serving as technical coordinator for Distance and Continuing Education, it seems fitting that his early persona...

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