About

Welcome to The Teachable Moment.

I’m Tom and I have a passion for visual-based education.  From video, images, games, interactive content, gamification, as well as augmented and virtual reality.  Learning via your eyes and your hands is my interest.

Here is a little bit about my background.

  1. The University of Pittsburgh BA ( 1 lab credit shy of a BS in Molecular Biology but had to graduate and move on ASAP)
  2. Georgetown University School of Dentistry DDS
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Long Beach California, Residency in Endodontics (root canals) Ouch!
  4. Retired Captain 0-6 US Public Health Service- Indian Health Service.
  5. Director of Pre-clinical endodontic program at the Missouri School Of Dentistry and Oral Health.
  6. President of Dental EduTech LLC, We are a 3D and VR simulator startup providing training in the delivery of dental local anesthesia injections. Check us out at https://dentaledutech.com/
  7. President of The Teachable Moment LLC, We develop custom instructional iBooks, websites, and learning modules to provide, support, and enhance online and mobile learning. Check us out at https://www.theteachablemoment.com/
  8. My first computer -IBM 360, “the computer as big as a room”, yes FORTRAN, COBOL, punch cards…
  9. My current computer -3 a monitor Mac Pro 12 core 3.46 GHz 128GB ram room heater!
  10. Software- Just about anything you need for web front end. Graphics, motion graphics, video, video editing, HTML5, animation, audio, 3D models, augmented reality, virtual reality, interactivity, mobile, touch, data visualization…
  11. Photography and videography