About the Author
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Phil Shelp is a Professor of biology at Brookhaven College. His focus
is undergraduate education in the biological sciences. He received his undergraduate
and graduate training at Concordia University in Nebraska, Arizona State
University, and the University of
Texas in Austin. Shelp has been developing instructional materials for biology
during most of his thirty year teaching career. |
| Since he bought his first Apple IIe, Shelp has used computers
to facilitate the instructional process. This led him to the realization
that computer technology can be used to adapt printed material to meet the
demands of diverse student groups and different instructional environments.
By using electronically generated text and bitmapped graphics, a database of
50 commonly taught biology labs can be manipulated to develop
a biology laboratory manual for any introductory biology teaching situation. |
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On a personal level Phil Shelp is owner and general manager of Oak Springs
Ranch, 30 miles North of Dallas, Texas. He and his wife Marilyn raise,
train, and board quarter horses and entertain grandchildren and friends.
The Shelp family has been in the horse business since the homestead era
in South Dakota and Wyoming. The family imported stallions from Europe and cross-bred them with
North American Stock to produce the horses that pulled the plows that
broke the prairie sod during the development of the American West. Just
as Phil Shelp's ancestors were pioneers in the early West, he is a pioneer
in the information age—using computer technology to design instructional
materials. |
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Shelp has participated in horse training clinics with many outstanding horse
trainers including John Lyons, Jack Brainard, Ray Hunt, Al Dunning, Bob Avila
and Monty Roberts, author
of The Man Who Listens to Horses. Through training horses, Shelp has gained many insights
on teaching students. Shelp is an active participant in the Monty Roberts International Learning Center. |
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