Professor Nibble has been an educator for over 30 years. Other than brief skirmishes with Middle School and High School, most of his career has been at the Elementary School level. He has a Masters from Michigan State University in Curriculum and Instruction. The professor and his lovely wife call Western Washington their permanent home. However, over half of Professor Nibble's teaching career has been outside the U.S. Home is usually wherever he hangs his hat. The Professor and his wife have taught in Japan, the Marshall Islands, Yemen, Pakistan, South Korea, Venezuela and Kuwait. Even though his international school experiences have been in American curriculum schools, he tries to globalize curriculum as much as possible for his many non-American students.

Professor Nibble has been playing around with distant learning since the mid 1980s. He watched the birth of the classroom computer, and he embraced technology from the very start. Throughout the years the Professor has seen far too many classroom computers gather dust. Many teachers would like to grab technology by the tail, but either due to time constraints or fear of the unknown, they put their technology education on the back burner. Professor Nibble would like to help both the technology savvy and the technology hesitant teacher by providing a variety of online learning activities for elementary children.

Our technologically centered world is progressing at a tremendous pace. Those people who resist change are sure to have a miserable existence. Technology is changing the way we live so rapidly, that in order to function efficiently in this world, we must be willing to learn new ways of doing things - many involving the use of the Internet. Our job as educators, must go with the flow. If we do not prepare our children for life in this new world, we have failed our mission. We must still teach the basic 3Rs, but how we use our knowledge and how we expand the basics has changed tremendously.

Professor Nibble does not believe the classroom teacher can be taken out of the educational process. He cannot condone the practice of sitting a child in front of a computer and letting software take control. Those who want to keep a child/student occupied and out of their hair, should rent a good video or turn on the TV. Nibble University is not the place for you.

The use of Nibble University is designed to be teacher or parent directed. The teacher or parent is responsible for assigning appropriate activities, discussing and expanding the material, and evaluating for mastery.
Professor Nibble wants:

• young students to use the Internet to enhance their learning
• young students to develop competent and responsible Internet searching skills
• young students to enjoy learning and to experience a lot of success
• young students to meet and communicate with other young students around the world
• to save classroom teachers valuable time by providing a variety of curriculum presented in many different presentation styles
• to provide a simple method for classroom teachers to incorporate a technology component in their educational plan
• to encourage classroom teachers to use technology to enhance and improve communication with the home and other educators worldwide
• parents to encourage their children to experience more and more wholesome connectivity to Internet related learning
• parents to assume more responsibility for their child's learning and to play an active role in its implementation