Hosted By Maxwell McGee
Special Guest: Dr. Shannon Putman
ENGAGE officially welcomes you to its 23rd episode of ENGAGED, a live podcast-style talk show that includes XR News, Special Guests, and Networking. ENGAGED is an opportunity to learn, explore, and ENGAGE with the platform as well as network with other professionals in the Metaverse.
Shannon Putman, Ph. D., is the founder and owner of Putman XR Consulting. A company that focuses on using the most bleeding-edge technology to improve instruction. At Putman XR Consulting, we believe quality instruction transcends subject matter and age. Therefore, we focus not on a specific field or content but on improving performance across all disciplines. This includes educational classrooms, athletic fields, and industry.
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education’s groundbreaking initiative – the country’s largest school district-led VR deployment! Dr. Shannon Putman, an esteemed special education teacher and VR expert with over a decade of classroom experience, spearheaded this remarkable project. Starting with just 50 Oculus Go’s and growing to 2,450 Meta Quest 2s, she has paved the way for a future of VR education across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Prior to founding Putman XR Consulting, Shannon worked as an associate professor and Fort Knox Program Coordinator at the University of Louisville. Before that, she spent eight years teaching the multi-modal communication special education classroom and two years as the learning and behavior disorder resource teacher. She spent three years working as the teacher in residence at Cochran Elementary. She has focused her work on implementing the use of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) technologies into the educational curriculum. Her Ph.D. research focused on using IVR technology as an educational intervention. She developed and created my dissertation IVR experience. It is a 20-minute experience that takes the user through the life of Representative John Lewis. It starts with him preaching to his chickens on his farm in Troy and goes all the way through the Bloody Sunday march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Shannon is also a co-founder of XReps, the leading immersive virtual reality football simulation system and cognitive skills program.