Writing, Speaking, Teaching

Curriculum Vitae

Writing

I write. I've always written.

These days, I write primarily about education technologies on my site Hack Education. My work has also appeared in O'Reilly Radar, KQED's MindShift, Inside Higher Ed, School Library Journal, ReadWriteWeb, EDUCAUSE Review, Campus Technology, The Huffington Post, Edutopia, and elsewhere on the Web. I've been a blogger on-and-off for the past eight years, blending the personal, the political, and the professional as I've written about school, learning, life, and death. Before that, I wrote academic essays -- some published, some not. (Few read.) Before that, poetry.

Speaking

You can hear me speak (somewhat regularly) on the podcast I record with Steve Hargadon. There, we discuss recent stories on Hack Education along with some of the major education news or the week.

I also speak (somewhat regularly) "elsewhere." The last five engagements have been at Ed-Tech Innovations in Calgary, TEDxNYed in Brooklyn, MIT Media Lab's Creative Learning course, WebWise in Baltimore, and SXSWedu. (See upcoming engagements here.)

Teaching

I left the classroom circa 2007. I miss teaching. The closest thing I've done lately is work on an Ed-Tech Guide, and I keep threatening to turn this into a "course" and not just "course content." I've facilitated workshops for THATCamp Hybrid Pedagogy and P2PU on writing and publishing online, outside academia. So maybe... maybe... you can say I still teach writing.

As a graduate student at the University of Oregon, I taught classes in Folklore, Composition, English, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature. Below are syllabi for a few of the courses I designed and taught, with links to PDFs and to GitHub repositories which you are free, of course, to download or fork.