On the Teaching Track
Insights on teaching, learning, & faculty development
Toward a Philosophy of Faculty Development
Writing a FDP helps you capture and distill the inner voice— informed by many years of scholarship, professionalization, and experience— that intuitively guides the choices you make when planning, delivering, and assessing a program or workshop.
New Publication: Rethinking the Teaching Philosophy Statement with BYTE
Let’s flip the teaching philosophy script to reimagine this important career document as a creative platform for self-efficacy and intentional storytelling.
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.
New Podcast Interview: On Mary Blair with Eric Molinsky of Imaginary Worlds
On talking Mary Blair with Eric Molinsky, host of Imaginary Worlds
Paper Balls & Digital Literary Excavation
This week, I’m sharing the active learning strategy I use to improve students’ ability to write thoughtful discussion questions, as well as a look into excavating “The Nineveh Bull” in my intro to fiction course using the social annotation tool Hypothesis.
Lesson Plan Databases & Paragraph Maps
This week, I’m sharing how I use Notion to organize my lesson plans, as well as a brief glimpse at paragraph mapping, one of my latest open educational resources.
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.
Bringing Elizabeth Taylor to Brunch
On August 13, 2024, I was invited to discuss the life and legacy of Elizabeth Taylor on ABC Radio’s Adelaide Mornings with David Bevan.
- 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