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Current Work
Director of Instructional Design and Technology
Language Acquisition Resource Center (link), San Diego State University, CA
- Pakistan and Afghanistan Culture with Language Lessons
- Design, format, and narrate interactive monthly lesson
- Work and manage a team to research topics and write content
- Publish monthly for online, CD, and Podcast formats
- Technology: PowerPoint, Articulate, and Quizmaker, Engage, Quicktime Pro, Podcast, Moodle
- Technology Workshops for Language Instructors
- Present and facilitate live and online workshops
- Create interactive and engaging experience for all ranges of language teachers
- Topics:
Social media, media development and publishing, digital story-telling,
mobile tools, web-based language and culture exchange projects
- LARC Summer Social Media workshop (online)
- Promote webinars via social media outlets, email, and conferences
- Recruit and coach presenters on Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing technology
- Manage discussions, activities, and participation of participants
- Co-coordinate the LARC/CALPER Testing and Assessment Webinar Series (link)
- Coach presenters on the use of Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing technology
- Promote webinars via social media outlets and email (Mail Chimp)
- Distribute log in, troubleshooting, and presentation information to participants
- Social Media and Language Learning Portal (SMALL)
- Manage development and design team
- Promote the tool online and at conferences
- Attend and present at Language Learning Conferences (local, national, and international) See Events Page
- Support the general technology and instructional needs at LARC
Co-Coordinator of the IALLT Webinar Series (link)
Presentations and Conferences
Areas of Interest
- Technology and Cultural Shifts
- Technology and Language Learning
- Knowledge Management
- Student-Produced Multimedia
- Education Anthropology
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Languages
International Work and Project Locations
- Zimatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Digital Story Project with Health and Food focus
- Santa Maria Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Thesis: Technology in Education
- Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Virtual Language and Culture Exchange and Digital Story Telling
- San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico
- Ethnographic Research on Child Nutrition
- Pingtung, Taiwan (ESL Teacher)
- Cuenca, Ecuador (ESL Teacher)
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