Hi Folks
Welcome to my blog! Perhaps the least-read blog in the history of blogging, it was created for one of the PSE courses (Educational Media) and I used it to post a blog about my dog eating a tube of blue oil paint on Thanksgiving weekend. The dog is still with us, almost a year later, which is a testament to our love for him and the strength of his insides.
But I digress... almost immediately...
The purpose of this initial blog is to introduce me, and my course topic area of interest. Accordingly, here I go:
Rod French, Program Developer (Business) with the School of Business & IT, College of the North Atlantic. I am a married father of a 14 year-old boy (man-child) who lives with his family in Kippens NL with our two dogs Keltie (a 7 year-old Bearded Collie with a host of mental issues), and Sherlock, the aforementioned paint-eating Old English Sheepdog of 19 months (yes, 19 months). In a subsequent blog I will post a picture or two.
My area of interest is business studies, mainly marketing and human resources. My undergrad degree is in Business Admin (major in Marketing) from Acadia (1990), and I received my MBA from MUN in 1992 (Marketing and HR). I am not the typical "business nerd" - I don't follow the stock markets, I couldn't explain to my son what the DOW Jones was, and I could care less about the Business section of the Globe and Mail. However, I am a bit of social demography geek - I have read malcolm Gladwell's four books twice each, and "Outliers" is one of my favourite all-time books.
I worked in community economic development for about 15 of my 16 years of my career, prior to coming to the College in 2009. Earlier this year I developed a new course for our Marketing diploma programs - EP2150 Entrepreneurship - which has not yet been offered at the College, but will be starting in January. This course will be the focus of my COS.
Enough for now. More to come!
Rod
Welcome to my blog! Perhaps the least-read blog in the history of blogging, it was created for one of the PSE courses (Educational Media) and I used it to post a blog about my dog eating a tube of blue oil paint on Thanksgiving weekend. The dog is still with us, almost a year later, which is a testament to our love for him and the strength of his insides.
But I digress... almost immediately...
The purpose of this initial blog is to introduce me, and my course topic area of interest. Accordingly, here I go:
Rod French, Program Developer (Business) with the School of Business & IT, College of the North Atlantic. I am a married father of a 14 year-old boy (man-child) who lives with his family in Kippens NL with our two dogs Keltie (a 7 year-old Bearded Collie with a host of mental issues), and Sherlock, the aforementioned paint-eating Old English Sheepdog of 19 months (yes, 19 months). In a subsequent blog I will post a picture or two.
My area of interest is business studies, mainly marketing and human resources. My undergrad degree is in Business Admin (major in Marketing) from Acadia (1990), and I received my MBA from MUN in 1992 (Marketing and HR). I am not the typical "business nerd" - I don't follow the stock markets, I couldn't explain to my son what the DOW Jones was, and I could care less about the Business section of the Globe and Mail. However, I am a bit of social demography geek - I have read malcolm Gladwell's four books twice each, and "Outliers" is one of my favourite all-time books.
I worked in community economic development for about 15 of my 16 years of my career, prior to coming to the College in 2009. Earlier this year I developed a new course for our Marketing diploma programs - EP2150 Entrepreneurship - which has not yet been offered at the College, but will be starting in January. This course will be the focus of my COS.
Enough for now. More to come!
Rod
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