*Please find attached CV below.
Interests
My primary research interest is understanding how to be a great teacher, or "lead learner," in a 21st century educational context, be it a conventional, bricks-and-mortar classroom or virtual learning environment. Other interests include: reading assessment and instruction, secondary Language Arts instruction, multiliteracies, new literacies, web-based and social media, teacher professional development, TPACK, and learning communities, both face-to-face and virtual.
Artifacts
The following links and PDFs represent some of the research projects and papers I completed during my master's and doctoral studies.
- The Paperless Scholar - This site is a collaboration between me and two other doctoral students, in which we documented our process of "paperless" graduate study using mobile/handheld devices and web- and browser-based tools and apps. The website was the digital accompaniment to our presentation session at The Qualitative Report 4th Annual Conference held in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, in January 2013.
- Perspectives on EdTech - I made this site as a "virtual handout" alternative to accompany a class presentation on competing perspectives on educational technology and its role in K-12 contexts. The site includes an embedded Prezi.
- Tracking TPACK Development through Conversations about New Literacies - I co-authored a paper and presentation that explored the instructor perspective on podcast creation and the flipped classroom model. My colleague and I presented our findings at the annual Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference held in Nashville, TN, in March 2011.
- As part of the comprehensive exam for my master's degree in Instructional Technology, I prepared a review of the literature in response to this question: In what ways can social networking and web-based content creation be incorporated into Language Arts instruction?