On the Teaching Track
Insights on teaching, learning, & faculty development
Digital Creativity Is Not Optional
This post explores why digital creativity should be treated as both a fundamental literacy and a human right in general education and beyond.
3 Back-to-School Canva Tips for Educators
I’m sharing three ways I use Canva to advertise my courses, customize my LMS, and create easily editable and shareable course materials.
Why I Teach Book Cover Design (& How You Can Too with My Free Resource)
This week, I am wrapping up teaching an eight-week, online version of my “Putting the Lit in Literacies” Intro to Fiction course here at IU Bloomington. To celebrate the occasion, I want to share an updated look at one of my favorite summative assessments.
3 Digital Tools to Power Your Fall Course Design
Whether you are a faculty member looking for course design inspiration or an educational developer seeking new strategies to support your colleagues, we can all benefit from tools that can make the course design process more flexible, collaborative, and student-centered.
All About Multimodal Literacy: an Empower Your Learning Module
This spring, I was a finalist for the FACET Innovate Award in the Creative Uses of Online Tools category for one of the first installments in my Empower Your Learning module series.
Empowering Faculty with Creative Technologies: Spring 2025 Faculty Development Programming
In March and April 2025, I had the privilege of leading faculty development events with the IU Center of Excellence for Women & Technology and the Digital Gardeners Faculty Fellows Program.
A First Week in the Life of Teaching Faculty
The first week of the semester has come and gone, and with it I’m publishing the first post in my new blog series about my work as teaching faculty at Indiana University Bloomington. This series is intended to document the hidden labor of teaching faculty that often goes unseen, as well as celebrate wins & milestones inside and outside of the classroom. I’ll also use this as a space to share strategies & resources that are newly published or in development.
- creative technologies
- Canva
- creativity
- Branding Your Teaching Excellence
- walking the walk
- career management
- philosophy statement
- discussion
- active learning
- back-to-school
- Canvas
- OER
- career documents
- course design
- lms
- BYTE
- week in the life
- lesson planning
- Adobe Express
- NTT
- woman artist
- poetry
- Women & Film
- digital portfolios
- creative women
- education
- evidence
- Interview
- assessment
- creative confidence
- reflection
- multimodality
- honors curriculum
- workshops
- collaboration
- data
- accessibility
- Elizabeth Taylor
- future faculty
- Hypothesis
- National Day on Writing
- Kate Chopin
- Notion
- social annotation
- data-driven instruction
- Publication
- close reading
- teaching award
- literacy
- Mary Blair
- learning outcomes
- exit ticket
- NCTE
- Trello
- reading roundup
- Marilyn Monroe
- remediation
- work in progress
- SoTL
- icebreaker
- composition
- podcast
- design
- authentic assessment
- scholarly teaching
- Radio
- multimodal literacy
- women & tech
- cv
- course descriptions
- service