Endorsements

"As a teacher, Emily has displayed strong communication and leadership skills, while contributing to the curriculum of our department. I have also come to know Emily as a person who can work interchangeably as an individual or as a valued part of a group environment."

--Doug Borton, Kellogg Community College

"I told [the director of the Peer Review of Teaching Project] just yesterday that he found a gold mine when he found you! It seems like you have an uncanny understanding of exactly what needs to be done. You take a problem and solve it simply and quickly and very gracefully."

--Ardis Burkholder, Peer Review of Teaching Project

"Emily has the singular ability to bring diverse groups of technical and non-technical people together, find common ground, architect a sound plan, and guide the execution of that plan. She has been a tremendous asset to our portfolio project."

--Brian Baute, Web Technologies Manager, Elon University

"The website [UNL Peer Review of Teaching] is one of the best-designed sites I've used. It's well organized and easy to navigate. Plus the material is excellent with great examples."

--Bill Cerbin, father of the "course portfolio" genre

"Emily, you are great to work with. I write dense boring academic language and you turn it into great-looking brief notes. I could get used to that!"

--Daniel Bernstein, Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

"I have no idea how we would have made the transition to a required electronic portfolio for all our students without Emily Springfield. Her ability to bring everybody -- from disgruntled seniors to terrified first-year students to skeptical or recalcitrant faculty -- has been wizardly. She comprehends how a process appears to a novice and what the best way is to explain it. She can speak in real English to people who are wholly computer-illiterate so that web pages suddenly become relatively easy and lots of fun. Emily brings to her work not only extraordinary competence but a sense of humor and a feeling for people that make her a gifted teacher. I have watched her take a group of my first-year students, in one hour, from Zero to Portfolio with minimal pain, much laughter, and visible excitement. She demystifies computing so that the technology seems to work for the human being, as it should, rather than the other way around."

--Gail Griffin, Professor of English, Kalamazoo College

"After a disastrous experience hiring a well-known web design house for the college's main web site, I was very apprehensive to outsourcing any applications that would eventually have to be supported in house. A phone conversation with Emily Springfield proved that we were both on the same page as to how the project should be approached and carried out. Reading the project contract I was pleasantly surprised: all aspects of the project were addressed, including responsibility lists, check point dates, training and documentation! The project is now complete and is working wonderfully, we also have complete document on the database architecture and web structure. I can honestly say it has been a pleasure to work with Emily. She is extremely knowledgeable and not a single detail fell through the cracks."

--Tim Hunter, IT Administrator, Allegheny College

"She had a wonderful handout and used terms she had already defined. Followed a logical outline, then left time to answer questions. Awesome presentation!"

"Very well done. Concise and to the point."

--Anonymous workshop attendees at the session "Do We Really Need a Web Site?" presented at the annual Educational Technology Coordinators' Conference at Western Michigan University, April, 2000