Meet The Teacher

Clark Shah-Nelson is a Colorado-licensed German teacher living in Brooklyn, New York. He has taught online German since 1999. He previously taught German and elementary geography using live interactive cable TV for the Denver Public Schools Distance Learning Network. The DPSDLN began with Clark's pioneering TV German class, "Tele Deutsch," in the spring of 1994. He also spent a year teaching German and social studies in the classroom at South High School in Denver and has taught and tutored students in German and in English.

Clark has a Master of Arts in Instructional Technology from the University of Colorado at Denver with a focus on distance learning, online education, and multimedia. He also earned a Bachelor of Arts with a major in German and a Norwegian minor from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

Awards
Recipient of eCollege's Excellence in Online Teaching (eOT) Award, @ Center for Internet Technology in Education (CiTE) Conference, Denver, March 2006

Video
NBC news story on Clark's TV Teaching
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Press
The Denver Post
Westword

 

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