University of Missouri

All of my MU teaching experiences were completely online, teacher-led, asynchronous courses through Sakai or Blackboard learning management systems.

The Digital Media Zone

Roles: Zone Mentor, Co-instructor
Courses: IS_LT 4364/7364, 4361/7361, 4360/7360, 4370/7370
Levels: Undergraduate & Graduate

Description:
The digital media zone offers completely online design and development courses through the Sakai learning management system. All of the Zone courses are project-based, meaning the students demonstrate their learning and skills through the creation of a project. My role in the Digital Media Zone was primarily as a Zone Mentor; a Zone mentor serves as an instructor across courses but is not the primary lead instructor of courses.

Prior to the PhD program (while still living in Alaska), the Digital Media Zone hired me to help the Introduction to Web Development and Intermediate Web Development courses. Upon arrival to Columbia in January of 2008 through the next two semesters, I was a Zone Mentor in Introduction to Web Development, Macromedia Flash Authoring, Intermediate Web development and co-lead instructor for Introduction to Digital Media.

Samples:

• Syllabus, Introduction to Digital Media
• Syllabus, Intermediate Web Development
• Syllabus, Introduction to Web Development
• Sample Syllabus, Macromedia Flash Authoring

Designing CSCW and Designing CSCL

Roles: Co-instructor, Research assistant
Courses: IS_LT 9410
Level: Graduate

Description:
Designing Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and Designing computer-supportive collaborative learning (CSCL) were courses led by Dr. Jim Laffey. In these courses I co-instructed as well as modified and led several of the modules in each course. These courses focus on facilitating discussion, cooperation and collaboration among the peers in such a way so that the students actually experience the content; in other words, they experience the cooperative and collaborative nature of work and learning as they learn about it. In this way, they have both first-hand experiential knowledge as well as theoretical knowledge about the content.

Samples:

• Syllabus, Designing CSCW
• Revised Module (Mod. 3), Designing CSCW
• Example Audio Intro (Mod 7), Designing CSCW
• Sample Syllabus, Macromedia Flash Authoring
• Syllabus, Designing CSCL
• Guide to teamwork (added document), Designing CSCL

Instructional Systems Design

Roles: Co-instructor
Courses: IS_LT 9471
Level: Graduate

Instructional Systems Design, led by Dr. Julie Caplow, focuses on how to design instructional content (regardless of expertise in the domain). An additional requirement of this teaching internship was to redesign the course to also include the former "Designing Direct Instruction" components into the course. While there were bumps in doing so, the collaborative nature brought about some great insights for the next iteration of the course.