WFU Professional Activities

Working for the faculty and staff in our departments is the primary responsibility for an Instructional Technologist. However, we do get other opportunities as well. The list below is additional duties, projects, and activities - mostly so I can remember what else I've done besides my day-to-day departmental duties. 

2025

• NotebookLM: AI For Everyone, Aug 19

• LinkedIn Learning: Learning Docker, summer

• Canvas Caravan, Chapel Hill NC, May 2

• Watermark, Seamless Flow: Incorporating SIS Data for Advanced LMS Integrations, Apr 22

• Instructure New & Next: Product Updates for Higher Education, April 16

• WISE Conference, Feb 20-22

• SiteImprove WP plugin testing group for UMC

• ITG Futures working group member

2024

• ITG Futures working group member

• Journey 2024: Navigating Image Accessibility webinar

• Completed English department website transition to CER theme and infrastructure

• Learned Obsidian.md notetaking/personal knowledge management software

• Summer laptop transition session staffing

• Attended CER's Digital Content Strategy seminar, spring 2024

• Mentorship of new hire for initial year

• Attended WISE (Workshop on Intercultural Skills Enhancement) Conference, Feb 8-10

• Serve on hiring committee for ITG for WDT, Chem, Bio

• Continue to serve as co-administrator for ITG website

2023

• Serve on hiring committee for WDT, Chem, Bio ITG

• SiteImprove training, Nov 13

• Academic Integrity and AI webinar. Chronicle of Higher Education. May 16

• Working group member responsible for the transition of the ITG website to CER theme

• Advised Writing Program's faculty and staff in their revamp of Self-Directed Writing Placement for New Students, Spring 2023

• Member, WFU subadmin group for LinkedIn Learning working group to evaluate potential utilization

• Attended and supported WFU CAT ChaptGPT series

• Training/orientation for new ENG AA

• ITG Open Labs, spring, and fall

• Cover Music Department, Jan-Feb 2023

• Member, ITG Career Path working group

2022

• WFU Faculty Hypothesis Showcase, Dec 7

• Staffed ITG Open Labs, Aug-Oct  2022

• Complete Adobe's Cultivating Digital Literacy course, Aug 2022

• InstructureCon 2022, July 14

• Journey 2022: Digital Accessibility Conference, June 16

• Adobe Summit 2022, Mar 15-16

• Adobe Creative Campus Collaboration 2022, Feb 16

• WISE: Connect 2022  Feb 11

2021

• Adobe MAX conference, Oct 26&27

• Workday Learning Training, Oct 26

• PollEverywhere training, Oct 20

• RIDE: Inclusive Excellence for Leaders workshop, Oct 20

• Ekit pilot participant, Fall 2021

• InstructureCon 2021, Oct 7

• Techsmith Level Up Conference, Oct 5

• Ekit training for pilot program

• UNC's 2021 Accessibility Conference, June 10

• Tableau E-Learning: Data Literacy For All

• D.E.A.C Allies (workshop 1, 2)

• LinkedIn Learning: Accessibility for Web Design

• Attend TechX 2021 sessions, March 23-25

• LinkedIn Learning: Design Aesthetics for the Web

• ILab 103, Part 1

• ILab 103 Part 2

2020

• Ilabs 101 and 102

• Participated in required Kaltura training as part of IS soft launch of Kaltura

• Participated in Introduction to Captioning: Make your videos more accessible and get your audience more engaged with captions (Eudora Stubble and Jonathan Millam)

• Participated in CAT's Peer Learning Communities program over the summer  & worked with departmental Peer Learning Facilitators

• Staffed weekly Open Labs in conjunction with IS Academic Technologies and CAT

• TechSmith Certification: SnagIt (certificate) 

• LinkedIn Learning: 3d modeling and printing

• Adobe Spark training from WakerSpace

• LinkedIn Learning: Video Production

• LinkedIn Learning: Excel

• Canvas walkin support sessions (Reynolda Hall Green Room, afternoons Jan 13, 14)

• Support IS Academic Technologies' Canvas training efforts during LMS transition, both for Early Adopter program  and for the campus-wide transition

2019

• Apple's on-campus sessions

• Tropy for Research Managment (Carrie Johnston, ZSR)

• Instructure (Canvas) Training

• Canvas Early Adopter

• Sakai 19 upgrade tester

• Reclaim Hosting WFU workshop

• Attended The Paciello Group's 2 day Developer Accessibility training at WFU (May 2-3)

• Attended SLATE conference (Apr 12)

• Co-presented at the ITG table at Tech Xploration 2019 (March)

• Worked on Professor Valbuena's Digital Shakespeare project

  • investigation of multiple approaches required learning about Twine and Scalar to assess their usefulness to the project

• Worked with Jo Lowe to develop and deliver a faculty training course on Adobe Rush

• Developed and delivered new Sakai Blitz series of training courses 

• Continue to coordinate and lead the ITG Training Task Force

• Continue to assist Jo Lowe with her management of the ITG website

• Participated in IS's Dropbox Pilot

• Coordinate ITGs for Dean's Digest Tech Tips 

2018

• Advised and transitioned 15 departmental, program, and individual WordPress sites to 3rd and 4th level domains

• Commenced a cross-discipline working group for Olga Valbuenna's Digital Shakespeare project (3 ITG members, faculty member, TLC, ZSR)

• Attended Sakai Virtual Conference 2018

• Co-lead the transformation of  Training Task Force into a permanent, year round group which has responsibility for overseeing ongoing, ITG branded training efforts

• Coordinated ITG Course Evaluation Task Force

• Attended Rethinking Accessibility in the Classroom: For Faculty

• Attended Rethinking Accessibility in the Classroom: For Staff

• Coordinate ITG Summer Training 

  • Lead the team in the  development and delivery of the Learn60 series for summer 2018

    • co-developed and co-led the section on Collaboration and Data Collection

  • Extended Learn60 series into Fall 2018

    • co-developed and co-led the section on Sakai - Assignments Tool

  • Co-lead the development and delivery of New Faculty Technology Orientation sessions

• Completed first year mentoring for new ITG hire

• Coordinated scheduling for ITG authors for Dean's Digest Tech Tips

• Assisted Jo Lowe with ongoing maintenance and administration of ITG web presence

• Advised and assisted Journalism program with the development and deployment of their own website

  • Advised and assisted JOU professors (Zerwick, Weiss, and Catanosso) on the development of course blog sites

• Advised and supported Writing Program students on the design and delivery of Writing Moves: An Online Journal 

  • Developed basic expertise in InDesign (Lynda.com certificate for InDesign CC 2018 Essential Training)

  • Assisted students with the development and design of the Writing Moves website in WordPress

• Lynda.com course: How to Design and Deliver Training Programs

• Exploration of 3D Printing

  • Lynda.com certificate - Learning 3D Printing; Design for Additive Manufacturing: FDM

2017

• Lynda.com self directed course certificates: 

  • InDesign CC 2018 Essential Training

  • Agile Instructional Design

  • Teaching Techniques: Writing Effective Learning Objectives

  • Introduction to Screencasting

  • Instructional Design: Creating Video Training

  • Instructional Design: Adult Learners

  • Instructional Design: Storyboarding

  • Instructional Design: Working with SMEs

  • Instructional Design: Needs Analysis

• LMS focus group participant

• Adobe Spark seminar

• Mentor for new hire (Don)

• ITG Hiring Committee

• ITG Desktop Proposal taskforce

• 2017 TechXploration presentation: ITG and the 2017 Roadshow

• Educause ELI Online Sessions: New Directions in Instructional Design: Keeping Pace in a Time of Rapid Change

• Teachers, Teaching, and Media Conference (March 2-4), provided technical support

• minor WordPress training and support for Global Affairs 

• Assist with ITG website maintenance and publicity

• 2017 Roadshow coordinator

• Representative of the Dean's Office/College on the Business Continuity Committee

2016

• Student-Athlete Academic Support Services: Roadshow Redux

• Lynda.com

  • Instructional Design Essentials

    • The Neuroscience of Learning (certificate earned)

    • Models of ID (certificate earned)

  • Using Regular Expressions (certificate earned)

  • Project Managment Fundamentals (certificate earned)

• Coordinate monthly ITG Tech Tip 2016-17 academic year (evolved from monthly presentation at Faculty meeting)

• Assist with Office365: OneNote for Classroom and Research class and associated Faculty Meeting presentation

• Assist Jo Lowe with ITG site redesign

• ITG Open Lab facilitator 

• 2016 New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Rochester NY

• 2016 4T Roadshow team lead (16 summer sessions in academic buildings)

• New Faculty Technology Orientation team lead

• THATCamp Piedmont 2016

• Innovate with Google (at UNC)

• Technology @WFU committee member

• Assisted with setup and testing of the Translation lab in Greene Hall

• TechXploration presenter: Office 365 and OneNote Class Notebooks

• DoC's Office365/sharepoint pilot

• Attended TLC and Sakai team's Building a Student Culture of Academic Integrity: The Role of Anti-Plagiarism Software

• Served on Campus Continuity committee

• Representative of the Dean's Office/College on the Business Continuity Committee

2015

• Attended virtual Accessing Higher Ground conference (Accessibility issues)

• Joined Campus Continuity committee

• Begin working with Education department on website issues

• Collaborated on C3 classroom innovation upgrade proposal to create one of WFU's featured Active Learning Spaces

• ITG/Service Desk collaboration project - clarification and documentation of division of duties

• Google Innovate conference at UNC-Chapel Hill

• Completed MIT's EdX Intro to CS and Programming class

• TechXploration presenter: Qualtrics as an online application portal and management system

• Completed Apple training sessions provided by IS

• Attended TLC presentation:"Speed Up With Specification Grading" by Ted Gellar-Goad 

• MBAN pilot participant

• PDC Advisory Board member; Chair of PDC Technology Subcommittee

• Technology@WFU committee member

• Faculty and Staff ThinkPad Exchange trainer

• New Faculty ThinkPad Distribution & Orientation Team Leader

2014

• Kiosk/Digital Signage Project (Raspberry Pi based)

• WordCamp in Raleigh NC

• Chemistry project - learning objects

• LENS online application support

• SpiderOak phase 2 pilot participant

• AntiVirus transition pilot participant

• Transfer student technology orientation facilitator

• PDC Advisory Board member; Chair of PDC Technology Subcommittee

• Technology@WFU committee member

• Faculty and Staff ThinkPad Exchange & Training Team Leader

• New Faculty ThinkPad Distribution & Orientation Team Leader

• B. Walzer's ENG 111 google sites project

2013

• Member of Dean's Tidbits project

• 2013 Client Build team member

• Staff Encryption Roll-Out Project member

• Committee on Information Technology representative

• PDC Advisory Board member; Chair of PDC Technology Subcommittee

• Technology@WFU committee member

• Faculty and Staff ThinkPad Exchange & Training Team Leader

• New Faculty ThinkPad Distribution & Orientation Team Leader

2012

• Attending "Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success" a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) by Dr. Curt Bonk, Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and President of CourseShare.  More information is available on Dr. Bonk's blog and on the Blackboard Coursesite Blog

• Committee on Information Technology representative. 

• PDC Advisory Board member; Chair of PDC Technology Subcommittee

• Technology@WFU committee member

• Faculty and Staff ThinkPad Exchange & Training Team Leader

• New Faculty ThinkPad Distribution & Orientation Team Leader

• College WordPress team member

• Mac Team member

• Assited Robert Vidrine in developing and presenting campus training course Beginning WordPress Training

• Developed and taught campus training courses for Qualtrics with Richard King and Jeff Nichols

  • Qualtrics Basic Training

  • Qualtrics Distribution Tools

  • Qualtrics Intermediate Survey Building

• Assisted on Freshman Athlete and Bridge Student ThinkPad Orientation and New Graduate Student ThinkPad Orientation

2011

• Added Humanities, Wake Forest Scholars, and Magnolia Scholars Programs

• Attended 2011 ConvergeSouth conference (Oct 6-7) - wordpress and social media conference

• Google Apps Migration Project team member

  • Lead Google classes during transition week

• Faculty and Staff ThinkPad Exchange & Training Team Leader

• New Faculty ThinkPad Distribution & Orientation Team Leader

• College WordPress team member

• Developed department-specific WordPress training

• WebEx Pilot participant

• Electronic Forms & Surveys Overview class | Handout

• Continued to serve on WFU Professional Development Center Advisory Board member

• Revamped my personal WFU site using the Google Sites tools

• Lynda.com training courses on WordPress and JQuerry

• Technical adviser for Admissions communication project

• ITG Mac Team member

• 2011-12 ITG representative on Committee on Information Technology

• Assisted on Freshman Athlete ThinkPad Orientation and New Graduate Student ThinkPad Orientation  

2010

• Faculty and Staff ThinkPad Exchange & Training Team Leader

• New Faculty ThinkPad Distribution & Orientation Team Leader

• Continue to serve on New Student Orientation Technology sub-committee

• WFU Professional Development Center Advisory Board member

• Host institution for Tri-IT spring conference

• Assist with ThinkPad orientation for Freshmen Athletes and new graduate students

• Completion of MA Instructional Technology/New Media & Global Education, Appalachian State University

• Coordinated "Train The Trainer" class via the PDC for the ITG

• Completed CCS training course set up for ITG

• Completed several Lynda.com training topics on CSS and new Dreamweaver version.

Earlier

• Became ITG representative on Professional Development Center's Advisory Committee 2008

• Support WFU Teaching and Learning Center  2007-2009

• Accepted lead ITG role in summer Faculty Thinkpad Training for summer 2008

• Attended 2008 Tri-IT Conference at UNC-Greensboro

• Continue as an ITG representative on the Training Task Force Committee

• Serve as a primary suport provider for faculty members involved in the Sakai pilot

• Co-hosted "Vista Roadshow" with IS Training Team

• Began serving as Instructional Technologist for The Teaching and Learning CenterAttended 21st Century Technologies Conference, Hickory NC

• Led training class for WFU Human Resources: OpenSource and Free Software for Windows (June & Oct  2007)

• Handout: OpenOffice Writer file or pdf

• Slideshow: OpenOffice Impress file or pdf

• Designed and Led Faculty Tablet Training

• Attended Spring 2007 Tri-IT Conference, UNC-Greensboro

• Promoted to Instructional Technology Consultant in July 2006

• Added Women's and Gender Studies in 2005

• set up Journalism server

• taught web page creation for collaborative writing project for multiple semesters with Anne Boyle

• work on plagiarism project

• Hired as Instructional Technology Specialist for the English Department in Sept 2001