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As an Instructional Technology Specialist in the Office of Digital Pedagogies and Initiatives (DPI) at Penn State, I collaborate with fellow staff and residential faculty to integrate digital technologies into Liberal Arts research and scholarship. Active projects include consultations for methodologies in long-term social science research, workshops on data management and visualization, and interactive technologies in the classroom. Explore some of these projects below, and be on the lookout for new ones!
Courses & Classroom Technology
Escape Room for Students
Escape Room for Students
Date: September 2023
Skills: Gamification in the classroom, point-and-click coding (Twine), interactive storytelling
Delivery: In-Person, Students in Groups
Resources: Escape Room for LA 83 Students at Penn State (Executable)
First-year students matched job skills with existing majors in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State using this escape room game in class. Keywords and clue solutions available upon request.
Introductory Principles of Instructional Design
Introductory Principles of Instructional Design
Date: Fall 2023
Skills: Course design, instructional design, Canvas course creation, principles of learning design
Delivery: Self-paced Canvas course
Resources: PSU Canvas Course
This course was created in collaboration with Hannah Wang (Penn State) through the ID2ID program at Penn State. Together we discussed readings about cognitive science and learning design, and selected principles to incorporate into a self-paced course about fundamentals of Instructional Design.
Workshops & Panels
Learning Design Panel
Learning Design Panel
Date: September 2024
Skills: instructional design, learning design, panel presentation
Delivery: Virtual/Zoom
Resources: Panel Recording (Kaltura Media)
This panel workshop brings together various learning designers across Penn State to discuss our roles as learning designers and how we help instructors.
Student Engagement through Digital Pedagogy
Student Engagement through Digital Pedagogy
Date: February 2024
Skills: Presentation, digital technology in the classroom, learning design principles
Delivery: Virtual (Zoom)
This collaborative presentation reviews essential principles of learning design and student engagement, addresses current issues in college teaching and engagement, and offers digital liberal arts and technologies as a potential solution.
Data Visualization
Data Visualization
Date: April 2023
Skills: R/R Studio, ggplot2, linear mixed effects modeling, branding
Delivery: Virtual/Zoom
Resources: SIP Data Visualization Workshop Repository (GitHub)
Graduate students studying Spanish linguistics learned about best practices in visualizing categorical and continuous data, in accordance with their research and course projects.
Digital Humanities in the Classroom
Digital Humanities in the Classroom
Date: September 2023
Skills: Presentation, storytelling, teaching DH for faculty and staff
Delivery: Virtual (Zoom)
Resources: Presentation PDF
This presentation introduced faculty in Liberal Arts to the concept of digital humanities, how to make choices for integrating DH in the classroom, different types of DH activities, and resources offered by the Office of Digital Pedagogies and Initiatives and Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative at Penn State.
Platforms and programs I have used in teaching and DH work:
Platforms and programs I have used in teaching and DH work:
Canvas: Learning management system
Moodle: Learning management system
Canva: Open-access graphic design and presentation software
Duolingo for Schools: Open-access collaborative language learning platform
Felt: Free environment for basic map creation
Google Assignments: Canvas-ready integrative tool for assignment administration
Google Suite: Cloud-based processing tool including word processing, data analysis, presentation, and creation of digital resources.
iClicker: Classroom material presentation, exam, and attendance platform
Jamboard (retired): Open-access collaborative virtual white board space for idea/media sharing
Kahoot: Classroom quiz and engagement tool
Omeka: Platform for constructing and sharing digital archives
PollEverywhere: Classroom polling and engagement tool
Padlet: Online platform for project collaboration
Perusall: Collaborative Canvas-ready integration tool for sharing and analyzing literary and media materials, designing assessments and evaluation of engagement.
Plickers: Classroom quiz and engagement tool
Slido: Integrated presentation tool for polling audiences
StoryMap: (ArcGIS and KnightLab) Program for creating interactive and informational maps and presentations
TopHat: Classroom presentation, quiz, exam, content design, and engagement platform
Twine: Open-source tool for building interactive, non-linear stories and games
Platforms and programs I have used in research:
Platforms and programs I have used in research:
Audacity: Audio recording and editing software
DataWrapper: Free integrated development environment (IDE) for basic data visualization
ELAN: Text annotation tool for audio recordings
EyeLink ExperimentBuilder: Experimental design software for eye-tracking experiments
EyeLink Data Viewer: Eye-tracking data processing software
GoldVarb: Statistical software (with R package Varbrul) for variable rule analysis
Gorilla: Online task building, data collecting, and experimental design software
IBM SPSS: Statistical computing program
JASP: Free IDE for statistical analysis
Microsoft OneDrive: Cloud-based collection of programs for file storage, creation, and team communication
Praat: Speech recording, manipulation, and analysis software
Prolific: Online recruitment platform for experiment participation
PsychoPy: Experimental design software
R: Statistical computing and graphics software
R Studio: Open-source IDE for R
SQL: Programming language for data management and analysis
Sublime Text: Source code editing software
Qualtrics: Online survey creation and distribution software
VS Code: Open-source IDE for collaborative code editing with GitHub integration
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