Welcome to my WEB page.
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
I was born in Winter Haven, Florida a few years after the end of World War
II. My education began at the tender age of 6 years and has never stopped.
I attended the local public schools and graduated from Winter Haven High
School in 1965. My first two years of college were completed at Polk Junior
College when it was still located at the Bartow Air Base in Bartow, Florida.
I received my BA degree in Elementary Education at the University
of South Florida in Tampa, FL
in 1972 and applied for a teaching certificate from the Florida Dept. of
Education. I began my teaching career in Lakeland,
FL at Combee Elementary School as a third grade teacher. I taught 2nd
through the 6th grades as an elementary teacher. Later I went back to USF
and took courses to certify me to teach junior high school math. I moved
to Lake Gibson Middle School
as a computer education teacher and taught computer education classes to
7th, 8th, and 9th graders. Next I was hired as the instructional technology
specialist at Jewett Middle Academy
in Winter Haven. I worked there for four and a half years until January
of 2000, when I transferred to Rochelle School of the Arts. I am presently
the Technology Specialist at Rochelle in Lakeland, Florida. After about
16 years of stops and starts, I finally graduated from USF with a masters'
degree in middle grades curriculum with an emphais in Instructional Technology.
FAMILY
I am single and presently live in Tampa, Florida. I purchased a lovely refurbished
bungelow, built in 1923. It is located in a delightful neighborhood and
is convenient to almost all business and shopping I need to do in Tampa.
I moved from Lakeland, Florida in January 2001, after 20 years of living
on the north side of that town. My mother lives in a nearby community and
is enjoying her retirement. My middle brother is an MD and JD in Oklahoma
and my youngest brother is a vice president of a restaurant chain in north
Florida.
PERSONAL
I enjoy telecommunications, photography, reading good books, and spending
time with family and friends. I spend time most evenings surfing the net
with my Macintosh
PowerPC computer, running Mac OS 9.21 and my home-built PC, using an
AMD Athlon processor and running WindowsME, replying to e-mail messages,
surfing the WEB, doing online chatting, and being with my family.
This WEB page is maintained by Joel G. John and was last
updated on 30 Oct. 2001.