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I am the Coordinator of Teaching Technology in the Office of Teaching and Learning Advancement at Ball State University. In that position, I serve as an instructional designer for faculty teaching distance education courses, and assist with the design and delivery of a faculty development curriculum related to instructional technology.
My professional background is primarily an academic one. I earned my Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Composition), with a focus on instructional technology and a dissertation on faculty development strategies. I have over a decade of teaching experience in composition, primarily in first-year and developmental composition; a majority of that experience involves computer-enhanced instruction–online research strategies, collaborative projects, electronic communication, etc. During my time on the academic side of the university, I also served for three years as an administrator within the university's Writing Program, where I was responsible for faculty development for both new and returning teachers.