Ms. L. Peat O'Neil

Peat O'Neil (November 1999)Onlinelearning.net
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L. Peat O'Neil is on the News Staff at The Washington Post, and is an adjunct professor at both Georgetown University and George Washington University.One of UCLA Extension's most popular online instructors, Ms. O'Neil is currently teaching "Travel Journalism" and is scheduled to teach "Advanced Feature Article Writing" online for UCLA Extension in Winter 2000.

Editor: Is this your first experience teaching online?How did you come to join OnlineLearning.net?

Peat O'Neil: Actually, this is the third online course for me.I joined OnlineLearning.net early in 1998 through UCLA Extension.It happened like this: I saw a brochure of UCLA Extension's online writing courses and thought that would be something for me to do, since I've taught "on the ground" (in the classroom) for years at various colleges in the Washington, D.C. area.During the fall of 1997, I wrote UCLA Extension and asked them to consider me for "Travel Writing" and "Nature Writing."Initially, they turned me down, but a couple of months later, they asked me to start off teaching "Nature Writing."I guess the course was a success because students have returned to take the "Travel Writing" course.