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I have been teaching Educational Technology courses at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) since 1997. My Ed.D. is in Instructional Technology from Utah State University where I researched Distance Learning in Alaska while teaching distance education courses in the 49th State. For two decades in the Nutmeg State I have been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses—both on and off-campus—focusing on using technology for learning and instruction—while demonstrating technology for instruction and learning. My current focus is flipping college courses and training public school teachers to flip their own classes. Over my career my experience includes creating instructional learning materials such as videotapes, laserdiscs and other current-at-the-moment technologies in the 1980s and today I utilize Web 2.0 tools, animation and state-of the-art technologies as part of my graduate and undergraduate courses at CCSU. I’ve been developing and using synchronous and asynchronous instructional media and methods as a natural practice, even before I knew I was flipping my classes, intuitively. I have been using flipping methods, developing instructional videos, for many years while training pre-service teachers and retraining graduate students to use their own technology resources creatively, for their own students.