PJK Teacher / Writer / Artist
The Blogger leaving the National Gallery of Art 11/08
Patrick Keough has been designing and teaching internet courses since the Spring of 1997 and has taught art, photography and graphic design for the Community College System since 1979.
He’s been instrumental in furthering the distance learning initiatives at Carteret Community College and for the Virtual Campus of the North Carolina Community College System. Keough has been teaching Art Appreciation for Carteret Community College, Pitt CC, Lenoir Community College, Wayne Community College and Southwestern Community College over the past 10 years, in addition to conducting professional development workshops on all phases of internet course development and methodology for the Community College System of North Carolina.
He’s conducted photography workshops for the Society for Photographic Education regional conferences at East Carolina University, Hampton Va., and Savannah School of Art and Design. He’s also conducted distance learning training during the Distance Learning Alliance conferences in July of 1999 – 2008 in, addition to presenting at the NISOD Excellence in Teaching Conference in Dallas Texas, April 2000 and 2001 and the NC Community College Conferences from 1997 – 2007.
He was the Distance Learning Coordinator at Carteret Community College until July 2000, in addition to being a full-time faculty member in the Photography Program and Fine Arts Curriculum Coordinator. He assisted (trained faculty) at CCC in growing its internet course offerings from 1 in 1998 to 13 in 1999 and over 50 for Spring 2000. The college now offers over 135 online courses both totally online and partial “hybrid” internet. Keough is now the Director of Distance Learning at CCC.
His latest innovation is developing methodology for teaching studio and computer art and photography courses online. It’s been said that online teaching is more conducive for theory based courses – Keough has de-constructing this myth by teaching a variety of studio courses (computer art, commercial photography, digital imaging, photojournalism and graphic design) with web components and having students exchange images, graphic layouts and even video and podcasts on the Blackboard.
Keough’s exhibited his work in local, regional and national photographic and art exhibitions and has won awards for digitally manipulated photographic collages in the Council for the Arts “Photo Expo ‘94, 1st – 3rd places for work in “Art From the Heart” and Photo Expo ‘95 & ‘96. His portfolio “Family Pictures was exhibited in the Southeast Regional Juried Photographic Exhibition in Clearwater, Florida and the Upstairs Gallery Photography Biennial in Tryon, North Carolina. He was awarded a North Carolina Emerging Artist Grant to publish a catalog of his work and was one of three recipients of the Kodak Photo-Educators Scholarship to attend the Santa Fe Photographic Workshop in June of ‘96.
He was the recipient of the Carteret Community College Meritorious Service Award for 1996 and the “Excellence in Teaching” Award for 1998-99. Keough was the Chairman of the Society for Photographic Education Southeast Region from 1996 – 1999. He won 1st place for his digital photograph Eyeries Village at the 2002 Carteret Arts Council Art From the Heart Juried Exhibit and has exhibited his Ireland photographs at the Secret Garden Gallery on Ocracoke, NC, in 2003 and at the Anam Cara Artists Retreat and Gallery in Southwest Ireland in Fall, 2003. He also exhibited a “one man show” of his Ireland work at the Jacksonville Arts Council’s Gallery June and July of 2005. Keough published his first book Einstein Place and other Stories in 2006 and has been self publishing a series of Blurb books on his family, travels and journals since 2007.
My passions are faith, family, writing, teaching, running, excellent beer, great red wine AND Blogging.
Distance Learning at CCC
My Personal Career Journey
Ireland Journal and Photographs 2002
Ireland Travel Portfolio 2005
Some stories from my last non-fiction memoir – PDF Download
WOW! I can tell you are a great photographer, But also you have a PASSION for Teaching, too!
P. S. AND I REALLY LIKE THAT “TRADEMARK”
HIGH-KEY PHOTO at the beginning of this post!
Patrick: I am a good friend of Virginia Smith, your fellow educator at CCCC. I live out near her in South River. But I grew up in Smithtown, lived on Clearbrook Drive, up the street from Chuckie Hughes. In fact, my brother, Alan Bjork, thinks he remembers you from Mt. Pleasant Elem. School. I graduated from Smithtown Central in 1967. Sometime when I’m down there ( I also live in Winston-Salem) we should get together. I am sure you probably served me a “Blue Whale” at the Gold Coast. Ah – those were the days.