About Me

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I’m Kristine Konrad, and I am returning to Foothill to earn a degree in Graphic Design. I grey up outside of Detroit, Michigan, and have a BS in Science from the University of Michigan where I met my husband. We moved to California so he could

attend graduate school at Berkeley, and we’ve been here ever since, falling in love with everything that the SF Bay Area has to offer. I worked at various biotech companies on tumor assays before having my kids, but have spent the last 20 years raising and homeeschooling (secular) my three boys – I still have one in high school, but he does dual enrollment classes at Laney and DVC, so I have more free time these days.

I am interested in graphics, platforms, open source programs, and using technology for education, and would like to share some of my research and

resources on challenging and effective educational pedagogy for homeschoolers via a blog. And even small and independent bloggers need well-designed websites as do large companies, so much of our economy and services are now online.

With the apparent decline in the fortunes of the large platforms (Facebook, Twitter), there is increased interest in smaller, more personal, and less corporate solutions to online shopping, social media, and community platforms and

more need for designers and programmers too.

I’ve helped to edit (mostly writing articles) for my 4-H club’s website in Drupal and WordPress, but always felt like I was just playing instead of working from a place of knowledge and skill in making the website useful and well-designed. Hence the reason for taking this class: to fulfill requirements for a degree, but more importantly, to be able to make my own fabulous websites, and perhaps work in the field of website design as well.

Kris

p.s. The name “Life is a Carondolet” comes from the name of my homeschool, Carondolet Academy. I picked “Carondolet” when we started homeschooling back in 2002 because it was the street my husband grew up on in South Side Chicago – I always loved how it rolled off the tongue in a melodious way.