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GHEC is a community-based organization who focuses on an
effort to get out of our "silos," to discuss collaboration opportunities
amongst Houston's higher education and K12 institutes; or to simply
share unique technology projects happening on various campuses.
We organize events that allow our members to remove themselves from the competitive environment by hosting collaborative forums to bring people and ideas together. Our collaboration is sustain through five functional areas:
Socials - Quarterly events to meet with peers in education
Lectures - Best Practice in education/instructional technology
Financial - "In Kind" support for grants
Projects - Encourage and initiate collaboration among peers and institutions
Seminars - Promote technology on campus and rewards champions
Kathleen Thalken - Founder
Kathleen is a former K-12 science teacher with ten years experience in Sacramento and San Diego, California, as well as in West/Central Africa (Katie speaks fluent French.) She has a Multiple Subjects teaching credential, a Single-subject Life Science teaching credential, and an M.A. in Educational Technology from San Diego State University. Katie has also taught “Technologies for Teaching ”as an adjunct teacher for San Diego State University. Kathleen is also a Cisco Certified Design Associate.
Kathleen joined the AT&T Education team in 1995. In her first year, she worked as an application designer for the Knowledge Network Explorer website. In the following year, Kathleen became an Education Director for the greater San Diego area assisting education customers with technology planning, instructional technology integration, K-20 interactive videoconferencing, community technology initiatives, technology and E-rate funding seminars, and staff development training.
In 2003, Kathleen relocated to Houston, TX to become part of the AT&T Southwest education initiative. In 2005, Katie co-founded the Greater Houston Education Collaboration Group; a collaborative community of decision makers amongst Houston’s higher education and K12 institutes.
An Exploration of AT&T's On-Line Education Resource (3/21/07) Ms. Kathleen Thalken, AT&T's Director of Education for Houston in an informative discussion of the offerings and role of AT&T's on-line education resource, the Knowledge Network Explorer
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Jim Segovia - Founder
Jim has ten years experience in telecommunications and has enjoyed calling Houston his home. He taught as a substitute teacher for Spring ISD, primary focus in ESL (Jim is fluent in Spanish) and Alternative/Adaptive behavior, while attending Lone Star College System. He received his Bachelor of Busines Admininstration from the University of Houston in 1997 and began his career during the deregulation of the local telephone monoploies. His interest of study was on deregulating industry and the impact on consumer and enterprise markets.
He worked as an account exective for Logix Communications (Formally American Telco), first company in Texas to sign an interconnect agreement with AT&T (Formally Southwestern Bell). He quickly rose through the ranks as City Manager, through top performance in sales and customer support. In 2000, he joined El Paso Engery's Global Network division as a Technical Design Consultant to help develop and design fiber based "last mile" solution that delivered high speed broadband at lower cost than traditional telco providers.
He joined the AT&T Education Team in 2002. His primary role is to assist K-12 and Higher Education institutions develop a technology plan and present "Turn Key" solutions to meet their needs. Jim has worked closely with education customers to transition legency systems to next generation IP Convergance, Distance Education and Wireless technologies. He recognized that budget cuts and duplicate resouces were obstacles in education. In 2005, he co-founded the Greater Houston Education Collaboration, to encourage ideas among peers in education and work together toward financial opportunity, in turn, allowing them to acheive their technology initiatives.
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