Ted Curran

Ted Curran, Digital Media Educator

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Ted Curran is a renaissance geek. Keenly interested in education, technology, arts, communication, and language, Ted continually experiments with ways to integrate these passions towards the ultimate goal of empowering people. Ted is currently a graphic designer for hire with ChimeraDesigns.net, an education technology consultant, blogging teacher, and blogger at TedCurran.net. Ted is also a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and hip hop “DJ for hire” (DJTrueSchool.com) who loves pushing the limits of how we can communicate through words, images, music, and multimedia.

Ted has been a high school teacher for over eight years, teaching Advanced Digital Media Arts, English Language Arts, and Social Science in public charter schools– most notably Envision Schools in San Francisco.

As a teacher, he fell in love with blogging as a tool for empowering, engaging, and motivating students to explore themselves as writers and participate in the larger social discourse. Ted was able to research this topic in depth as part of his National University Master of Arts in Education thesis “Blogging and Online Communities: Effects on Student Engagement, Motivation, and Social Voice”. Ted then took his newfound learning into the classroom, turning 150 Digital Arts students into web content producers who shared their artworks and writing in a conversation with the world.

Ted was a content researcher and video editor for Paramount Domestic Television, MCA Records, E!, Lifetime Television and others before he had the good sense to leave L.A. and start doing some good in the world.

Ted lives in the beautiful Berkeley Hills with his Fox Terrier Flash and three great musical artistic roommates. He is preparing to marry the girl of his dreams and is actively seeking work as an Educational Technology Specialist.