Geoff Cain

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Educator
Location University Place, Washington, United States
Introduction I am an instructor and education consultant. I am interested in open education resources, open textbooks, online teaching and learning, course development, and Connectivism. I have also taught English at all levels both face-to-face and online.
Interests Education, writing, instructional technology, reading. I write novels, short stories, and poetry. I also enjoy hiking and golf.
Favorite Movies The Seventh Seal, Persona, Duck Soup, 2001: A Space Odyessy, Casablanca, Amacord, La Dolce Vita, Yojimbo, The Third Man, F for Fake, It's a Gift, Hulot's Holiday, Wings of Desire, Star Wars (old unmessed with version), Metropolis (1927), Unforgiven, Drunken Master I&;II, Master of the Flying Gulliotine, Hero, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Monty Python &; the Holy Grail, The Man Who Would Be King, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Unforgiven, The Spy Who Came in From The Cold, Night of the Iguana, Five Million Years to Earth (Quaternass and the Pit), The Ipcress File, The Wicker Man (older version)
Favorite Music Bach, Vivaldi, Couperin Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Chopin, Tarrega, Verdi, Rossini, Wagner, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Stan Getz, Charles Mingus, David Bowie, Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, BRMC
Favorite Books Homer, Sappho, Ovid, Catullus, Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Baudelaire, Dickens, Poe, Whitman, Dickenson, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Virginia Woolf, Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford, Jack Kerouac, Jeanette Winterson -- too many others to list...