Scott Merrick

Current

Poobah, ISTE SIGVE at ISTE
Founding Partner, MUVEr at MUVErs, LLC
Free Agent (Educator) at Second Life

SL Docent, Presenter, Premium Member at International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Attendee/Presenter at ISTE NECC
Lower School Technology Coordinator at University School of Nashville

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Past

Teacher-in-residence at Vanderbilt University Center for Science Outreach
Content Provider at CILC
3rd Grade Teacher at University School of Nashville

Education

Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University--Peabody College for Teachers
Hillwood High School

Recommended

3 people have recommended Scott

Connections

128 connections

Industry

Primary/Secondary Education

Websites

Scott Merrick’s Summary

Former host of the bi-weekly podcast for educators and other interested listeners: Snacks4theBrain! at http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/s4theb.

Presenter of educational workshops for teachers, including "Web 2.0 for Us," a weeklong hands-on immersion into the world of the Read/Write Web.

Author of Lives, "the pretty good American Novel," at http://lulu.com/scottmerrick and of "Scott Merrick's Songs for Alaska, Featuring the Last Frontier Band" at http://cdbaby.com/scottmerrick1.

ISTE Second Life Docent and Island Manager of the Blogger's Hut and the Podcasting Place, two resource-rich island buildings for sharing and highlighting superlative work in education.

I am a learner and an educator. Everything I do in life proceeds from these two habits of mind.

Scott Merrick’s Specialties:

Second Life networking and content creation, curriculum design and innovation, podcasting, Web publishing, video editing and Web publishing, Interactive Videoconferencing (IVC), guitar and mandolin, parenting

Scott Merrick’s Experience

Poobah, ISTE SIGVE

ISTE

(Non-Profit; Education Management industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Instituted in October, 2009, ISTE SIGVirtualEnvironments aims to be a touchstone for all things VE/Education. This will be no mean feat, only to be accomplished by the interweaving of many professional learning communities. Come join the effort at http://sigve.iste.wikispaces.net
Founding Partner, MUVEr

MUVErs, LLC

(E-Learning industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

MUVErs is an exciting collaborative cooperation whose mission is to foster understanding of Virtual Environments and Collaborative Technologies throughout the global education community and to seek fairness in assuring that the intellectual property of innovators is both protected and remunerated. It was founded in June 2008 by Cathy Walker, John Miller, and Scott Merrick. http://muvers.org
Free Agent (Educator)

Second Life

(Primary/Secondary Education industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )
SL Docent, Presenter, Premium Member

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

(Primary/Secondary Education industry)

2002 — Present (7 years )
Attendee/Presenter

ISTE NECC

(Non-Profit; Education Management industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )

I present at the National Educational Computing Conference, this year (09) in Washington, D.C. Just search "merrick"
Lower School Technology Coordinator

University School of Nashville

(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

July 1996 — Present (13 years 6 months)

K-4 computer teacher and technology lab maintainer, facilitator for curriculum-supportive technology and teacher training, Web manager for Lower School resources, blogger from the lab