2007 ANGEL IMPACT Awards - Exemplary Individual Contributions to the ANGEL Community

Peter Friesen

Peter Friesen, Senior Staff Technologist, Instructional Technology
SUNY Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh, NY

Peter Friesen developed a software program – fondly called the “ConversionThingy” in the State University of New York system – that extracts content formatted for the SUNY Learning Network’s Notes system for migration to ANGEL. Friesen’s work is open for all the SUNY community to use and has saved the community immeasurable time as many SUNY campuses migrate to ANGEL.

For the SUNY Learning Network alone, the ConversionThingy has extracted 293,354 objects in approximately 14 ½ hours, a task that estimates calculate would have taken 611 workdays if completed manually.

At Empire State College, the ConversionThingy has converted more than 2,600 course shells and 85,000 individual learning objects at last count.

Alan Shapiro

Alan Shapiro, Instructional Technologist
St. Petersburg College
St. Petersburg, FL

Since becoming a member of the ANGEL community with the St. Petersburg College ANGEL adoption in 2004, Alan Shapiro has freely shared SPC’s model for evaluating learning management systems and acted as a resource to many ANGEL customers both before and after they adopted ANGEL.

An exemplary ANGEL community member, Shapiro frequently volunteers to share SPC tutorials with the ANGEL community when training questions arise and actively participates in the give and take of the ANGEL ListServ.

Shapiro’s ANGEL advocacy and activity in the ANGEL community are evidence of the value he places on contributing to and building a strong ANGEL user community.