Promoting Digital Energy Education in the Classroom with Eleanor Cannon

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In this 17 minute episode, Marty Stetzer (EKT Interactive in Houston) talks with Eleanor Cannon who designed a senior level history elective entitled the: History, Geopolitics and Economics of Energy.

As she developed her course, Eleanor was looking for real-world operations content to supplement her extensive academic research. In 2019 we formed a partnership to integrate our digital Oil-101 with her curriculum design.

This podcast describes the benefit she has seen in the students with her somewhat unique course.

About the Expert

Eleanor Cannon

Mrs. Eleanor Cannon currently teaches a senior level history elective and is a field hockey coach at St. John School, in Houston. She has taught for over 20 years in independent schools.

She has used our digital Oil-101 series for a senior elective course that she designed called the “History, Geopolitics and Economics of Energy. To date it has been offered to 200 St. John's School seniors.

A Virginia native, Eleanor graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and received a Master of Arts from the University of Houston.

She is married to E. Philip Kenyon Jr. and the proud mother of two sons.

Marty Stetzer – President of EKT Interactive

President of EKT Interactive in Houston; and producer of our mobile-ready energy series describing How the industry works.

It covers Oil & Gas, Power and Renewables.

In parallel with a 25-year energy career, Marty spent 15 years providing custom blended and e-learning training programs to a variety of technical audiences.

He has global upstream and downstream operations management experience with Schlumberger, Superior Oil-Mobil and Exxon, and was a director in the energy consulting practice at PwC.

Marty has his Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering Institute and a MBA from Carnegie Mellon.

Relevant Links

Oil-101 Course

Power-101 Course

Energy 101 – eLearning for the Energy Industry

Transcript

Marty:

Hi everyone, and welcome to Drill Down, our podcast channel that today will give you an insight on a really unique application of our Oil 101 series. I’m Marty, president of EKT Interactive in Houston, and I’ll be your host today. I’m speaking with Mrs. Eleanor Cannon. She’s the upper school history teacher at St. John’s School here in Houston. She has closely integrated our Oil 101 videos into a course to help it make it relevant. Eleanor, thanks so much for taking the time today,

Eleanor:

Marty, thank you so much for having me. I’m really looking forward to talking with you about how I’ve been using Oil 101.

Marty:

Can you tell our listeners your background and explain what motivated you to design the course and especially look for digital energy training for your students? Where did this idea come from?

Eleanor:

Well, I’m really fortunate, first of all, to be able to teach history to high school students. I get to talk about my discipline that I love all day long and share my passion for history with smart young people. I’m also fortunate I also get to coach. I coach field hockey, which is a great and entirely gratifying different way to get to know young people. And for the last 12 years, I’ve been teaching US history to juniors in high school at St. John’s School, and I have been asked to consider creating a senior elective. The goal of our senior electives is to expose students to wide variety of disciplines and all sort