Bio

In 1987, Marsha bought her first computer. It was love at first byte! She enrolled in a computer class at Western Montana College and was further smitten. While attending the class she started working for Big Sky Telegraph. BST's mission was to use computers to connect all the rural schools in Montana with each other and with the college. At that point the most common computer was the Apple IIe and a 300 baud modem was considered state-of-the-art. The Internet as we know it now was not in existence, but there was an online network of colleges called ARPANET. Marsha worked for Big Sky Telegraph for two years and taught one of the first online college courses. She guided many students through Western Montana's online telecommunication class.

Later, she moved to Michigan where she ran a library in an elementary school. Then became the Instructional Technology Specialist for the same school district. In that role, she helped teachers learn how to use their classroom computers and how to integrate technology into their curriculum.

Marsha returned to Montana in 1998 and now works for the Polson School District as their TALES/Adult Ed Coordinator and adult ed computer classes instructor. She also has her own business designing web pages and doing computer training.