Barb Ackemann, founder of Iris Lines LLC has been involved with computers and information retrieval for over 25 years.
In 1982, when she took a position as an elementary school librarian she was warned: "But you'll have to be in charge of the [single!] computer!"
Intended to scare her off, because her principal wanted to keep her in a classroom teaching role, Barb saw this as an opportunity to explore a field she'd dabbled in – FORTRAN programming back in the 1970s!
Barb involved her students in hyper-media long before the internet was available. She wrote interactive teachng modules and helped students create and present multi-media projects.
When the internet did come along it was a natural next step to learn coding and Barb did so with a group of high school students in 1995. In 1996 she took off for 9 months of traveling with her family, home-schooling her sons and creating web reports for friends and family.
After 28 years in public education, as classroom teacher, librarian and computer coordinator, Barb decided to make a change and go into business for herself. She completed the Marlboro College Graduate Center's MSIT program in August of 2006, receiving the President's Award for her capstone project.
From years of teaching, Barb learned how to patiently translate technology into common sense and plain English and helped many many colleagues step into the world of computers.
Now she's ready to help you.