Experience
Creator, November 1997 - present
- Serve a worldwide audience ranging from elementary students to college freshman to life-long learners (8.4 million users in 2015)
- At Google, maintain first-place search result status for terms like complete sentence, direct object, linking verb, noncount noun, prepositional phrase, pronoun agreement, subject complement, etc.
- Built web pages, handouts, presentations, and videos with HTML5, CSS, Microsoft Expression Web, Word, PowerPoint, Hot Potatoes, Audacity, Photoshop, iMovie, and Windows Movie Maker
- Acknowledged as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers by Writer's Digest (2011 and 2013)
- Market with social media including Twitter and YouTube
- Offer these materials free of charge so that students have one place with quality content and no distracting advertising
- Operated a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) long before the term was coined
Valencia College, Orlando FL
Professor of English and Humanities, August 1988 - present
- Teach and assess students in Freshman Composition I and II (classroom, online, hybrid, and LinC), Developmental Writing I and II, Developmental Reading I, Composition for Non-native Speakers, Intro to Humanities, Greek and Roman Humanities, and Mythology
- Maintain blogs for each class where students can find homework, handouts, PowerPoint presentations, and links to reading/viewing assignments
- To reduce student expense and our carbon footprint, made classroom sections bookless and located all quizzes/exams at Blackboard, Valencia College's learning management system
- Mentor tenure-track faculty through their Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) and portfolios
- Assess the teaching of adjunct faculty during both classroom and online observations
- Serve on committees to hire faculty, librarians, and senior administrators
- Evaluated online courses with Quality Matters standards
- Designed and maintained the website for the West Campus Communications Division (1996 - 2009)
- Designed and maintained the website for The Valencia Forum for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
- Edited 5 editions of These Essays Don't Stink!, an in-house collection of student samples for developmental writing students
- Hired and supervised the staff for the collegewide Reader-Grader Program (1992 - 1994)
- Received the 2012 John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Award from the League for Innovation in the Community College
- Awarded a sabbatical for Spring 2016
- Contributed items, passages, essays, and writing assignments to several college textbooks
Director of the Writing Center, August 1989 - April 1999
- Founded the first Valencia College writing center and established its operating policies
- Served thousands of cross-discipline students with all types of writing: essays, research papers, scholarship applications, resumes, etc.
- Marketed center services in person, in print, and online
- Hired, trained, supervised, and, when necessary, fired staff of 10
- Developed the contract system for students who failed department-graded exams in composition, developmental writing, and English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
- Coordinated and hosted the biannual, all-evening Cram for the CLAST (College Level Academic Skills Test) for AA students mandated to take this exit exam
- Operated within budget
Instructional Assistant, English Lab, September 1985 - August 1988
- Helped students prepare for essays and grammar tests during their mandatory time in the English Lab
- Taught 1 - 3 developmental writing/composition courses per semester as an adjunct
Florida Department of Education, Gainesville, FL
Writer/Validator, August 1999 - April 2003
- Trained to create accessible, consistent multiple-choice items that address learning outcomes
- Wrote items and passages for both the writing and reading sections of the Florida College Basic Skills Exit Test
- Validated items and passages for the writing section
Education
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Bachelor of Arts, 1985
Algernon Sidney Sullivan Scholar
Master of Liberal Studies, 1994
Thesis: Sailing Past the Siren Song of Censorship: An Evaluation of Plato's Complaints Against Homer
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