I'm looking forward to all of the workshops! I love getting together with people and getting our hands dirty with some ed tech. I'm excited to get to know the wider Trinity community.
I think they intersect in different ways for different people. With COVID, we're seeing it become more integral as delivery changes to things like Zoom or video production. But I'm a big advocate of triangulating teaching practices, content, and tech. Not every piece of tech will work for everyone - or even for every lecture. In my workshops, I don't expect everyone to come away convinced to use [insert ed tech here], but I do want everyone to feel empowered to explore their options and find what works best for them and their students.
My dissertation explored the ways in which queer/trans* people of color engage with each other and pop culture online. A lot of things we think of as "online slang" can be traced back to QTPoC communities in the 60s and 70s, and I was interested in how that's become mainstream, if there are rhetorical/languaging strategies unique to the community now, and if there were certain practices we engage in to keep ourselves safe as we engage with pop culture on various platforms. Going forward, I want to focus on specific platform communities and dive deeper into platform-specific phenomena and how we contribute to it. For example, Black Twitter and the concept of the Twitter novella.
It feels great! Absolutely wonderful. I went for a walk in 100 degree heat out of pure joy. :) My family (parents, grandparents, aunts/uncles/cousins) are all here, and even though we can't get together as normal, it's nice to be close. Also, I ate nothing but Shipley Donuts for the first week. #NoRegrets. I'm happy to be a part of the Trinity community, and have felt nothing but welcomed since I got here!