As an educator and administrator who is interdisciplinary and multi-tasking, I shall demonstrate in this portfolio my diverse activities in my position as Associate Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts/Computer Graphics Department.  It represents my professional growth over the past academic years at NYIT in Amman. From an academic Art History and Fine Arts background, I have expanded my knowledge and expertise to include Computer Graphics skills, both to administer the Fine Arts/Computer Graphics program and to integrate its technology into all of my teaching.  Samples of this exciting interactive approach will be included in this e-portfolio.  I plan to expand this research in my future teaching, and upgrade it as technology advances and provides more innovative opportunities.  In addition to expanding the techniques of teaching, I have also expanded the content of my courses to include the often missing links between Western and Middle Eastern cultures, both Islamic, Christian and Jewish.  Unfortunately, most texts we use are ethnocentrically located in the West.   I have discovered during the six years teaching in Jordan, many interesting and important links that reveal an ongoing cross-cultural influence between European and Middle Eastern cultures.  Ideas are seldom contained within political or even geographic boundaries.  They follow trade, warfare, religious expansions, crusades and pilgrimage.  I have learned much from my students exchanging ideas and cultural understandings in Art History.  Teaching Aesthetics has provided an opportunity to follow the philosophical trail of ideas from east to west and back.  As a result I developed for NYIT an Islamic Visual Culture class for our Amman campus, and an Islamic Studies course for the Core Curriculum of NYIT in NY.  This e-portolio contains sample syllabi and projects, examples of authentic assessment, and evidence of how I met my professional goal of improved instruction.