From 1996-2000 I served as a graduate teaching assistant at Wayne State University
in Detroit, MI. During this time I sat on the original technology committee
that was responsible for reopening the older computer classrooms for use by
the department. I later became Co-Administrator of the Computers and Writing
project and was responsible for the funding (via grant), design, building, staffing,
and maintenance of a new computer classroom. As administrator, I was also responsible
for holding regular workshops and office hours to train both graduate teaching
assistants and faculty members how to use technology in their classrooms and
professional lives.
As I teacher, I have used computers to teach a range of both composition and
literature courses (Graduate and undergraduate). The technology used in these
courses has ranged for synchronous (MOOs, Chat rooms, and Instant Messaging)
to Asynchronous (email, listservs, and discussion boards). I have also used
programs such as Blackboard and WebCT for posting student grades, posting readings
and assignments, collecting assignments, and synchronous/asynchronous chat.
From 2000 to the present I have served as an assistant professor at Purdue University
in West Lafayette, IN where I teach a variety of computer mediated classes and
serve as a faculty mentor of GTAs who are teaching the computer mediated sections
of Freshman Composition. I also teach computers and writing graduate and minority
rhetorics seminars. I am currently in the process of creating an online database
of theoretical and pedagogical essays, tutorials, and sample assignments for
use by computers and writing GTAs.