In the years since receiving tenure, I have continued to teach regularly in my department while holding a variety of leadership roles with a campus focus. In 2013 I summarized our work in the Learning Studio during our first two years on campus in a way that might fairly reflect the ways I’ve tried to serve the broader university through projects that have had impact both on and beyond the ACU campus:
Ours is not simply the story of mastering the technical challenges of filming, editing and publishing media messages. We are committed to working with the ACU community to amplify the reach of their exemplary teaching, significant research and meaningful service as a part of our common mission. (Year Two Report)
Learning Studio development – In 2008-2009, I visited a dozen information commons and media centers around the country (before or after conferences or other personal travel) as well as numerous conference calls with colleagues I’ve worked with through EDUCAUSE or the New Media Consortium. These visits shaped conversations back on campus about the opportunities for informal learning spaces in our library as well as media to support digital literacies and training for students and faculty.
Learning Studio funding – In 2010 I worked with Phil Schubert, Kevin Roberts, Bill Rankin, and Dana Pemberton to write a $1.86 million grant to the AT&T Foundation that included the construction and staffing for three years of the new Learning Studio in the Library.
Learning Studio management – Since 2009 when the first Digital Media Center opened downstairs in the library with 2 student workers and 5 computers, I have directed media services in support of student and faculty academic projects. I now oversee hiring and productivity of 5 student workers and 2 full-time employees who manage reservations for 10 collaborative spaces and 50 pieces of audio/video gear.
Apple Distinguished School – In 2013 I worked with Susan Lewis and Lesa Breeding to author a section of the university’s application to become an Apple Distinguished School and then designed and delivered the proposal in iBooks format.
ACU Blogs – In 2009 in my Adams Center role, I advocated for a mobile-friendly course blog platform and led a semester-long faculty pilot to test the tools. Once WordPress was approved as a viable campus platform, I worked with Mike Wiggins to develop a custom blog theme for fall classes that year. Since then, we developed other blog themes to support Cornerstone and portfolio tools for student blogging in advanced classes like GST. The ACU Blogs WordPress system currently includes user accounts for 12,638 users (past and present) and 9,789 blogs.
Cornerstone – In 2010, I worked with Greg Straughn to develop the Cornerstone Spotlight experience in Cullen Auditorium. This included planning video production of 14 faculty presentations, consulting on mobile tools to support student engagement, and media support for podcast and digital storytelling assignments. From that first year, I’ve worked with Greg, Nancy Shankle, and Cliff Barbarick to pre-plan and run-through 49 Spotlight sessions.
Digital Academy – During our three years of AT&T funding, we began working with Nil Santana in 2010 to deliver digital photography workshops in Gruene that introduce faculty to basic exposure, lighting, and composition through an experiment in collaborative creativity that includes a full-day of shooting and critique.
Digital Storytelling Class Visits – In response to faculty interest in storytelling projects in their classes, I have personally visited Cornerstone, Psychology, Social Work, and Teacher Training classes to lead script consultations. Then Learning Studio media specialists schedule partial or full class meetings for faculty across campus. In 2013-14 our media specialists taught over 60 classes and over 1,000 students on campus.
Advanced Workshops – We’ve been working with Nil Santana , Al Haley, and the Center for Digital Storytelling since 2010 to lead high quality faculty workshops in support of media fluency. Then in 2012 and 2013 we scheduled advanced workshops for returning participants to continue to develop new skills working with professional photographers and media producers. In 2012 Scott Martin worked with faculty on long-exposure night photography in Marfa, and then in 2013, in partnership with the College of Arts & Sciences, we brought in Bill Frakes who led student and faculty events over a week in Abilene.
Connected Events – Between 2008 and 2011 ACU hosted hundreds of visitors from colleges in the region and across the country interested in hearing about programs in mobile learning at ACU. I worked with the program planning teams to develop full conferences and one-day events that allowed guests to tour facilities like the Learning Studio, participate in classroom demos leveraging classroom polling and discussion tools like HeadsUp, and connect with experts from other universities we were working with around common themes. The Media and Mobility track I planned in 2011 brought in colleagues from USC, Penn State, and Purdue.
Connected Videos – Among the first videos I produced at ACU were annual interviews with faculty from a range of disciplines sharing their work with mobile tools in and out of the classroom. In 2009 I led the interviews with InFocus Video filming and producing the final pieces. Then in 2010 and 2011 I worked with Grant Rampy and ACU Marketing to plan and edit the final pieces.
CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS
Faculty Fusion, “Introducing the One Button Studio,” August 2014.
Faculty Fusion, “Adobe Creative Cloud for Advanced Media Editing and Design,” with Mike Wiggins, August 2014.
Adams Center lunch, “eBooks for iPad: Textbook Options for the Fall,” April 2014.
Maker Lab pilot, “Design Thinking Deep Dive,” with Nil Santana, March 2014.
Learning Studio, Leipzig, Study Abroad Storytelling workshop, April 2014.
Faculty Fusion, “Quick and Easy Media Production,” August 2013.
Faculty Fusion, “Teaching with the iPad,” with James Langford, August 2013.
Faculty Fusion, “Advanced WordPress for Class Blogs,” with Mike Wiggins, August 2013.
Summer Teaching Institute, “Quick and Easy Media Production,” May 2013.
Summer Teaching Institute, “Teaching with the iPad,” May 2013.
Learning Studio, Scholarly Storytelling workshop, with Al Haley, May 2013.
Learning Studio, Gruene, Digital Academy photography workshop, with Nil Santana, April 2013.
Learning Studio, Leipzig, Study Abroad Storytelling workshop, April 2013.
Learning Studio, Texas Computer Education Association meeting, March 2013.
Adams Center lunch, “Have You Met Lynda.com,” with James Langford, February 2013.
Adams Center lunch with Paul Wertheim, “Tenure & Promotion ePortfolios on WordPress,” February 2013.
Learning Studio, Digital Storytelling workshop, Tarrant County College, January 2013.
Learning Studio, Scholarly Storytelling workshop, with Al Haley, December 2012.
Adams Center lunch, “From Digital Storytelling to Scholarly Storytelling,” November 2012.
Learning Studio, Marfa, Advanced photography workshop, with Nil Santana, October 2012.
ACU Summit, “Student Filmmakers Roundtable” panel leader, September 2012.
Learning Studio, Digital Academy photography workshop, with Nil Santana, September 2012.
Faculty Fusion, “Teaching with a Class Blog” and “Media Production on the iPad,” August 2012.
Learning Studio, Ft. Phantom, Advanced photography workshop, with Nil Santana, April 2012.
Adams Center lunch, “Learning Studio Year One,” March 2012.
Learning Studio, Gruene, Digital Academy photography workshops, with Nil Santana, March 2012.
Adams Center lunch, “Portfolio Blogs,” November 2011.
ENGL 624: Non-Traditional Rhetoric guest lecture, “Digital Storytelling in the College Classroom,” for Debbie Williams, November 2011.
Adams Center lunch, “Digital Storytelling 101,” October 2011.
Learning Studio, Gruene, Digital Academy photography workshops, with Nil Santana, October 2011.
Adams Center lunch, “Your First Media Project,” September 2011.
ACU Summit, “Worship and the Media Generation” panel leader, September 2011.
Campus Conversations chapel, “Monster Movies: Constructing Humanity,” host and presenter, Fall 2011.
Learning Studio, Ft. Griffin, Advanced photography workshop, with Nil Santana, September 2011.
Texas Chemistry Teachers workshop, “Profcasting: 4 Practical Principles for Media in the Classroom,” for Kim Pamplin, August 2011.
Faculty Fusion, “Blog Set-up for Beginners,” August 2011.
Faculty Fusion, “WordPress Upgrade & Portfolios,” August 2011.
Faculty Fusion, “Digital Storytelling in the CORE,” August 2011.
Learning Studio, Center for Digital Storytelling 3-day workshop, August 2011.
NGLC Workshop for Mobile-Enhanced Inquiry Based Learning, “Three Kinds of Instructional Podcasts,” June 2011.
Apple Executive Briefing Center, Cupertino, “AT&T Learning Studio,” June 2011.
Learning Studio, Center for Digital Storytelling 3-day workshop, May 2011.
Learning Studio, Gruene, Digital Academy photography workshop, with Nil Santana, April 2011.
ACU Connected Summit, planned/chaired Media and Mobility track, February 2011.
Adams Center lunch. “HeadsUp: Energizing Small Group Discussion,” Kyle Dickson and James Langford, January 2011.
Learning Studio, Gruene, Digital Academy photography workshop, with Nil Santana, October 2010.
Adams Center lunch, New Faculty Mentoring, “ACU Jargon: A Primer,” with Tracy Shilcutt, September 2010.
Adams Center lunch, “Class Blogs Across Campus,” with Mike Wiggins, September 2009.
Adams Center lunch, “Core Classroom Opening,” with Dennis Marquardt, September 2009.
Campus Conversations chapel, “Out of the Depths: Hollywood and the Psalms” host and presenter, Fall 2009.
Faculty Fusion, “Blog and Podcast Training,” August 2009.
Faculty Fusion, “Mobile Learning Workshop,” May 2009.
Adams Center lunch, “The Course Blog,” with Mike Wiggins, April 2009.
ACU Connected Summit, planned/chaired Podcasting and Mobile Media track, February 2009.
Adams Center lunch, “Profcasting: 5 Practical Principles for Classroom Media,” December 2008.
Adams Center lunch, “This I Believe: A Composition Curriculum,” with Cole Bennett, October 2008.
Art chapel, “One Whose Name Was Writ in Water,” September 2008.
Adams Center, “Mobile Learning Innovators,” with Bill Rankin, August 2008.
Adams Center, “Assessment in the Mobile Classroom,” with Debbie Williams, April 2008.
Campus Conversations chapel, “This I Believe Student Essays,” with Cole Bennett, Fall 2007.
Adams Center lunch, “PowerPoint in 2007: An Upgrade to Learning?” November 2007.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
ECAR Faculty Survey Subject Matter Expert, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2013-2014
Horizon Report Board, New Media Consortium, 2011–present
Learning Technology Leadership Institute faculty, EDUCAUSE, 2013–present
New Media Consortium Horizon Retreat, 2012–2013
OpenClass Design Partners Consulting, 2011–2013
Planning, Bill Frakes visit, College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Speaker, October 2013
Judge, ACU FilmFest Student Film Festival, March 2014
Judge, Images of Aging Contest, Pruett Gerontology Center. March 2014
Judge, 24fps International Film Festival. October 2013
Judge, ACU FilmFest Student Film Festival. March 2013
Judge, Images of Aging Contest, Pruett Gerontology Center. March 2013
Judge, 24fps International Film Festival. October 2012
Judge, ACU FilmFest Student Film Festival. March 2012
Judge, Images of Aging Contest, Pruett Gerontology Center. March 2012
Judge, 24fps International Film Festival. October 2011
Judge, ACU FilmFest Student Film Festival. March 2011
Judge, Images of Aging Contest, Pruett Gerontology Center. March 2011
Help Portrait, Community Family Portraits provided at Carver School, December 2011
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