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Hello!

My name is Mrs. Brennan.

I teach Instructional Technology at Sulzberger Middle School in Philadelphia. I came from the corporate world of communications where I worked for 25 years as a Systems Engineer for Verizon. I earned a Bachelor of Science Degree at Drexel University in Communications and Applied Technologies, and a Master of Business Administration - Management Degree at Eastern University . I am a member of the First Cohort of the Philadelphia Teaching Fellows. I attained my Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education at Drexel University's Transition to Teaching Program. I am certified to teach K-12 Instructional Technology, as well. I am a firm believer in life long learning and plan to pursue a Doctorate in Education. 

I spent the summer of '06 at Drexel University in a program named RET - Research Experiences for Teachers. I was assigned to the Department of Computer Science and my research focus was "Computer Vision". I was under the direction of Dr. Ko Nishino. Dr. Nishino is an Assistant Professor at the Drexel College of Engineering. He teaches courses on Computer Vision. He has co-authored two books called "The World in an Eye" and "Eyes for Relighting".

Working with Dr. Nishino's Teaching Assistant, John Novatnack, I learned how to write some programming to manipulate images in a program called MATLAB. I was able to change a color photograph to black and white, separate a color photograph into its red, green and blue channels, take two pictures and make a new image combining half of each of the original photos and I programmed a part of a function to make a homographic image of two images.

It was a fascinating experience and one that I would like to share with my students at Sulzberger Middle School.

This is John Novatnack. He is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Computer Vision Laboratory. He taught me how to program in Matlab.

Here I am in the Microscopy Laboratory. I stepped on a fly and looked at it under the electron microscope. Here is what I saw:

 

I also took a miniature rose petal from my garden. Here s what that looked like under the electron microscope: