projects overview
I love my work and, within reason, can be persuaded to find any emerging or historical use of technology related to instruction and learning worth investigating. My current projects emphasize the design of communication, instruction and learning with technology, and web usability.
the design of communication @ nc state university, raleigh, nc, & beyond
See which clippings match Communication Design keyword in folksonomy. 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, which was held at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, from October 5th to 7th, 2009 (see pictures). See also the new NC State Student Chapter and and their recent SPEEDCON 2012: The Unconference on Communication conference held October 31st, 2011. the new European Chapter of ACM SIGDOC (EuroSIGDOC). SIGDOC'10, the 28th International Conference on Design of Communication, was held in São Carlos (in the state of São Paulo), Brazil, from September 27th to 29th, 2010; SIGDOC'11, the 29th International Conference on Design of Communication, was held in Pisa, Italy, from October 3rd to 5th, 2011. EuroSIGDOC's OSDOC'12, the Workshop on Open Source and Design fo Commuication is being held in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 11th, 2012. SIGDOC'12, the 30th International Conference on Design of Communication is being held in Seattle, WA, from October 3rd to 5th, 2012.
Word cloud of prominent research and teaching terminology (wordle.net)
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. Served on the NC State LITRE (Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment) Assessment Committee—developing a framework of everyday instructional
situations (PDF | HTML)—as the Faculty Representative for the ClassTech Project (see presentations), and as a board member of Innovate: journal of online education. Currently presenting on online plagiarismand online identity formation, and experimenting with settings for social networking and instruction and learning.
"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient" (Aristotle)
Web usability @ nc state university, raleigh, nc, & beyond
Digital Games Research Center (DGRC), Usability Research Laboratory (URL), Universal Usability (UU), and Interaction-Design.org.