Career
He has worked within the Canadian schooling system for almost 20 years. He has developed Information and communications technology learning resources to support classroom and administrative practices. Gerry is currently the Principal of the International Division of Changchun Experimental School in Changchun City, Jilin Province, China.
The school has 3500 students (Grade 10-12) currently enrolled.
The past three years were spent in Thailand as Principal of the British Columbia International School in Bangkok. Gerry remains active in teaching technology, geography, English, and video and film.
Gerry has pioneered the use of opensource educational systems and digital libraries in schools and installed several comprehensive systems in China and Thailand. As a result, demonstrating that this could be done, Gerry produced several models of the what emerged as the InkMedia mobile computer.
Gerry"s research work and contributions have encapsulated developing Information and communications technology systems and training for school districts and at a provincial level, distance education delivery systems, online Information and communications technology collaborative tools, private-public social infrastructure projects, reproducible systems that can be adapted internationally and development of a low cost Rom based computer InkMedia.
Gerry carries a Bachelor of Education Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Calgary and Master of Arts in Education from the Antioch University, Seattle.