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.
2024
Attended CER's Digital Content Strategy seminar, spring 2024
Serve on hiring committee for ITG for WDT, Chem, Bio
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
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