GRE
| Verbal |
800 |
| Quantitative |
790 |
Work experience:
| Instructional designer, Center for Instructional Teaching and Technology, University of Florida |
2008-present |
- Worked closely with faculty to create three interactive, large-enrollment online courses.
- Managed a $90,000 budget and a team of developers and graphic artists.
- Used research-based pedagogical practices to maximize student engagement and learning.
- Designed and coded usability enhancements to the WebCT CMS using javascript and the jQuery library.
- Designed and coded interactive educational activities.
| Freelance web designer, owner Jetpower Media |
2007-2008 |
- helped clients articulate goals, define project scope, and manage maintenance.
- coded standards-compliant XHTML and CSS.
| Technical consultant |
2007 |
- assisted on a federally-funded, multi-year study.
- presented and explained a range of technology solutions for organization, data collection, and data processing.
- guided implementation of web-based scheduling system to coordinate the work of teachers, researchers, and observers
| Media teacher, Union Grove Middle School: 6th,7th, and 8th grades |
2003-2007 |
| History and Language Arts teacher, Union Grove Middle School: 6th grade |
2002-2003 |
- Researched, designed and taught three unique middle-school courses in Media Studies.
- Created and ran my district's first educational blog to promote student art and poetry;
- Helped create district policy for blog use,
- published hundreds of student posts and comments, and
- won central Georgia Spotlight School of the Month award.
- Created the UGMS BookBlog, a forum for students to post and comment on book reviews from their peers; helped several teachers integrate BookBlog into their curricula.
- Created my district's first wiki for teacher collaboration.
- Created and led the Reading in the Content Area (RICA) Initiative, a district-wide effort to improve student reading performance.
- Organized district- and school-level committees;
- convinced district administrators and school principals to adopt and fund action plans including new teaching requirements;
- developed materials used in hundreds of classrooms; and
- created and taught a required, 30-hour professional development course.
- Created and ran www.studymedia.net, a media-literacy web portal
Publications
Black, E., Dawson, K., & Priem, J. (2008). Data for free: Using LMS activity logs to measure community in an online course. Internet and Higher Education.
Scholarships
| National Merit Scholarship |
1997-2001 |
Service
| Volleyball coach (2003 regional champions) |
2002-2004 |
| Asst. Volleyball coach |
2007 |
| Junior Beta Club sponsor |
2006-2007 |
| Sponsor, creator of Perspective, an award-winning student art blog |
2005-2007 |
| Anime Club sponsor |
2005-2007 |
| School drama production, asst. director |
2006 |
| Poetry recital contest judge |
2006 |
| Multicultural club, founding sponsor |
2005-2006 |
| Media Festival judge |
2004 |
| Public Address Poetry creator, sponsor |
2003 |
Projects
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Customizes the reports generated by the open-source Zotero reference manager; recommended in the official Zotero documentation.
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A dynamic, interactive visualization for examining a user-uploaded set of rss/atom feeds; users can track daily changes in their feeds' content.