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I am the editor of Transform, a newsletter dedicated to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at the Universitiy of Minnesota. I also serve as a "Multimedia Designer
and Instructional Consultant." In general I help clients evaluate instructional
technology and make smart technological decisions in conjunction with
informed pedagogy. I currently
consult with and help coordinate the Bush
Innovative Teaching and Technology Strategies grant program on "Promoting Student Learning in Large Classes. I
also co-teach GRAD 8200 in the Preparing Future Faculty Program.
Selected Publications, Presentations and Awards
“Scratch this!: The IF-AT as a technique for stimulating group discussion and exposing misconceptions.” (with Sehoya Cotner and Anne Kellerman) Journal of College Science Teaching. March/April, 2008: 34-39. “The SoTL Paradox: Results Without Rewards.” (with J.D. Walker and Brad Cohen) College Teaching. Forthcoming.
“Using Problem Based Learning to Enhance Students’ Motivation to Learn.” (2006) (with Mary Brakke, Kevin Smith, and J.D. Walker) Creative College Teaching Journal. (3) 1, 4-15.
“Engaging Large Lectures: Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration and Technology.” (with J.D. Walker and Brad Cohen) 2006 Campus Technology Conference. Boston. 31 July - 3 August, 2006.
“Students Teaching Students: New Experiences in Hybrid Online Learning.” (with Bill Rozaitis) At “Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE).” June 9, 2005. University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada.
MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources—MERLOT Classics 2005. (For the online workshop “Active Learning with PowerPoint” created with Bill Rozaitis.)
"The Barbary Captivity Narrative in American Culture.” Early American Literature. 39.2. July, 2004.
"Supporting Faculty Enrichment in the Digital Age.” The Teaching Professor. May. 2003.
"Bleeding Edge Technology: Voice Recognition's Inspiration and Exasperation." The National Teaching and Learning Forum. 12(5). 2003.
Background
My background is in American literature,
and my book White
Slaves, African Masters (U of Chicago Press, 1999) explores the
little-known Barbary captivity narrative. Two short non-academic pieces
appear in Thus
Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Ed. Andrei
Codrescu, Black Sparrow Press, 1999). Previously at the University, I worked at the Digital Media Center and served as the instructional coordinator for the TA Web Certification Program. I recently completed the Technology Enhanced Learning Certificate in Multimedia Design and Development.
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