AKA Riptide Furse

About

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Fred Delventhal (Riptide Furse in SL) is Chair of the DEN in SL Leadership Council. He works as senior level Instructional Technology Coordinator in Arlington Public Schools, Virginia. He has presented at Northern Virginia Technology Educational Consortium conferences, the Technology and Learning Symposia (Virginia), and the Virginia Department of Education Educational Technology Leadership Conference. Riptide has worked as an adjunct professor for George Mason University Instructional Technology Certificate Program and for the Four Rivers Consortium (Virginia). Along with the teachers Riptide works with, he has won multiple awards at the MHzNetworks International Shortie Film Festival. He is a Discovery Star Educator and sits on the Discovery Education Unitedstreaming Advisory Board. This year he flew with a team of teachers aboard NASA’s Weightless Wonder Microgravity Jet through the NASA Explorer Schools program. Riptide was one of four DEN Star Educators to present for the final EDTechConnect Live Webinar this year.

People may ask why I use Riptide Furse so much. Well I see myself as representing the DEN in SL wherever possible. I believe it is a great place for educators to connect and the people we have there are awesome. So if my name raises questions that guide people to try Second Life and challenge their own learning skills then I see that as a success!