projects overview
My current projects emphasize instruction and learning with technology, Web usability, and the design of communication.
instruction, learning, and technology @ nc state university, raleigh, nc, & beyond
Technology related to instruction and learning (see Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti's, 2008, article in Faculty Focus, December 30: Four Distance Education Research Topics to Avoid). Teach courses as part of T&D Online program at NC State. Serve on the NC State LITRE (Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment) Assessment Committee (developing a framework of everyday instructional
situations), past Faculty Representative for the ClassTech Project (see presentations), and as board member of Innovate: journal of online education. Currently experimenting with settings for social
networking and instruction and learning.
"... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.... " (George Eliot)
Web usability @ nc state university, raleigh, nc, & beyond
Digital Games Research Center (DGRC), Usability Research Laboratory (URL), Universal Usability and Design, Universal Usability (UU), and Interaction-Design.org.
the design of communication @ nc state university, raleigh, nc, & beyond
ACM SIGDOC: Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (see SIGDOC on Wikipedia). Conference Co-Chair for SIGDOC'09:
The 27th International Conference on Design of Communication being held at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, from October 5th to 7th (see SIGDOC 09 Pictures).
"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient" (Aristotle)