Professor of MHR

Visitors to my Cal Poly website may also be interested in visiting other wesites which I host. A brief outline is provided by way of invitation:

• OBInc.US - "OB"-Inc. was designed as a wesite to support a classroom as organization learning project taught as MHR 438. Class members managed all aspects of Orange Blossom. No longer serving such purposes, the site features a Drupal learning community experimental website. Here students collaboratively host a database environment, share blogs, forums, galleries, polls and online surveys.
• Moodle - Students in 193 countries and 75 languages use Moodle as a course framework for online education from small classes up to universities of 200,000 students. Steve hosts the open sources software for his classes and his external teaching activities.
• Enthuz.com - A traditional website is used to center Steve's professional activities outside of the university. Here he hosts online surveys for corporate clients, maintains a portfolio of websites which he's developed, coordinates eBay activity, and sometimes blathers.
• SteveIman.com - A relatively new entry to the Iman server farm, SteveIman.com is an experiment at website development using datbase tools. This allows for easy incorporation of many advanced web features including galleries, ecommerce, forums, blogs, polls, and integration with third party software providers. Steve uses is in part as an arena for experimenting with soffware web development tools.
  
  Iman_Genealogy - Imans originated from northern Germany, though the migrated to Switzerland during the Reformation and became "anabaptists" who were emprisoned in castles and expelled in the 17th Century. They were farm managers for nobles along the Rhine until they set out to America. Settling first in Conestoga with Mennonites and Amish, Imans were generally farmers and frontiersman along the path from the Susquehanna to the Valley of Virginia. They built sawmills and gristmills along the Blue Ridge and headed into Illinois as anti-slavery advocates. My own line walked out the Oregon Trail with Ox carts and operated ferry boats on the Columbia.

Most of my teaching these days is done in "Moodle" -- a course authoring system along the lines of WebCT or Blackboard which I maintain on my own server. Moodle is Open Source software used by millions of students around the world in many languages.