Lloyd R. Prentice

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Experience:

As president of Prentice Associates Incorporated Lloyd has produced more than 100 educational and consumer software products and interactive business presentations. He brings to each project strong creative writing and project management skills and deep knowledge of and interest in computers and technology.

In former lifetimes he was the founding editor and publisher of Classroom Computer News, the nation's first national magazine focused exclusively on K-12 applications of microcomputers, Director of the graduate writing program at Lesley College, a full-time faculty member of Boston University's School of Public Communication, a sales training coordinator for the Catepillar Tractor Company, and assistant editor of Pacific Commerce and Western Plastics magazines.

At BU Lloyd created, for the School of Education, the nation's first graduate-level course on microcomputer applications in K-12 classrooms. He has written three nonfiction books, numerous articles, and one novel. Lloyd has also created Techno Turkey, an alter-ego who will soon wander the world of intransigent high-tech gizmos and gadgets on a web site of his own.

Education:

Lloyd has a Masters of Arts degree in Public Affairs Communication from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English-Language Arts from San Francisco State College. He studied creative writing with Wright Morris, Walter Van Tilberg Clark, and James Leigh.

Favorite books:

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass; Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebee; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; An American Tragedy by Theodore Drieser; and most things by John Steinbeck. He reads lots of nonfiction, but feels that good fiction generally sticks to the ribs with more nourishment.

Favorite movie:

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Interests:

Science and technology, snorkeling, sea kayaking, walking, reading