Professional

Here is where you will find information related to my work as an Instructional Technologist at Wake Forest University.

What does an Instructional Technologist do?

Primarily I help faculty and staff in academic departments use technology in pedagogically appropriate ways. Currently I work with six academic departments and programs:

• English

• Women's & Gender Studies

• Humanities

• Magnolia Scholars and Wake Forest Scholars

For the people who work in those departments, I am their primary resource for all things technical. That makes for a varied, interesting work environment. I can be doing anything from working on a course redesign to troubleshooting a printer. In addition to working with my specific departments, there are always a number of campus-wide projects and efforts that keep me busy. My full job description is posted on the WFU Human Resources Position Descriptions page as a word document. It is listed as Instructional Technology Specialist English.

Areas of Interest

• Training and instructional design

• Emerging technologies and gadgets

• Hardware and software troubleshooting

• Operating systems and client software for Windows, Mac, Android, and *nix

• Ergonomics and accessibility standards

WFU Standard Technology Tools and Resources

Here at Wake Forest University, we provide our students, faculty, and staff with a number of technological tools.

• A new laptop for each faculty, staff, and student every 4 years (for most)

• A standard software load for the WFU laptops

  • Google Apps for Education

  • Microsoft Office

  • Adobe Creative Cloud

  • Qualtrics

  • VoiceThread

  • Camtasia

  • WordPress

  • Dropbox

• Canvas is our LMS

• Kaltura is our media platform

• Multimedia and laptop-ready classrooms for all class spaces

• Ubiquitous networking and centrally managed network printing

• Department scanner with OCR software

More information on Technology is available in the Technology section.