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Indiana University of Pa.

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CIO Administration Team

July, 2006 -- Present Indiana University of PA Indiana Pa.

• Work in collaboration with the CIO's administrative team to explore the appropriate integration of existing and emergent information and instructional technologies in support of the University's academic mission
• Conduct research on emergent information and instructional technologies
• Serve as a liaison between the CIO administration team and academic constituencies to explore ways to integrate information and instructional technology
• Serve as a liaison on behalf of the CIO between the university and PASSHE in the exploration of the use and integration of existing and emergent information and instructional technologies
• Assist the CIO administrative team in pursuing its mission
• Explore innovations in cognitive science, information science, adult education, instructional design methodology and methods and related fields
• Seek new technologies that might enhance IUP's academic mission
• Experiment with the potential uses of technology in teaching
• Represent the University through professional activities such as presentations and publication in the area of information and instructional technologies

Director of the Instructional Design Center and Media Services

Aug., 2000 — July, 2006            Indiana University of PA                      Indiana, Pa Supervise the operations of instructional services for Indiana University of Pennsylvania libraries.  IDC/Media Services provides support for IUP faculty in the integration and development of instructional technology into the curriculum of the university.

• Provide overall supervision to the equipment distribution, graphics production and equipment repair areas of Media Services.
• Direct the hiring, training, scheduling and evaluating of staff for the department.

• Identifies budgetary needs, recommends needed purchasing, drafts appropriate departmental purchase requests, monitors departmental budgetary accounting systems.

• Offer educational direction in the design and production of audiovisual materials and in the justification, specification, and purchase of media equipment and systems for the university.

• Coordinate campus audiovisual equipment distribution, audiovisual equipment and supply purchasing, audiovisual equipment and system installation, maintenance, and repair.

• Interact with the Library Director as to divisional matters, goal setting, future planning, and the role of IDC/Media Services.

• Interact with library faculty as to general library matters, goal setting, future planning, and the role of Media Services within total library service.

• Interact with campus faculty as to general university matters, goal setting, future planning, and other professional and professorial concerns.

• Supervise the operation of the Instructional Design Center.  Works with IUP faculty to design and develop Instructional Materials

• Serve on a variety of committees that work on the development of the use of technology by university faculty

Instructional Technology Specialist in the Humanities

1999—2000                    Bucknell University                 Lewisburg, PA

Assist faculty in the design and implementation of instructional materials; act as a proactive adherent for the enthusiastic, yet appropriate application of instructional technologies

§     Design, develop and deliver IT in support of the humanities

§     Contribute to the professional development of faculty, students and colleagues

§     Supervise student assistants who provide both design and delivery support

§     Investigate commercially available software, multimedia products, etc. and assess their application instructional technology

Principal Lecturer for Information Technology in the Humanities

1999                      Sheffield Hallam University               Sheffield, England

§     Senior faculty position comprising a half-time teaching load and half-time assisting faculty in the design and implementation of instructional materials within the School of Cultural Studies

§     Obtained internal funding for, designed and developed the first computer classroom at the Collegiate Crescent site

§     Worked very closely with technical support services to develop network infrastructures at the Collegiate site to support IT

§     Worked with a team of faculty to deploy the first online teaching materials used within the English subject group

§     Served as a technical editor for Early Modern Literary Studies, an internationally recognized peer-reviewed online scholarly journal

Research Fellow of the British Academy, Corvey Project

§     Conceptualized, designed and produced the electronic catalogue for a library of British women's writing in the Schloss Corvey library,

§     Co-created the “Adopt an Author” program, which implemented pedagogical applications for the microfilmed Corvey collection at Sheffield Hallam by mentoring students as they drafted portfolios of biographical, bibliographical, and critical writing on hitherto unknown British women authors

§     Conceptualized and implemented a database system based on Cold Fusion to retrieve data and create HTML-based reports on the fly

Programming Consultant for Computerized Instruction

1996–1997                     University of Nebraska-Lincoln                    Lincoln, NE
§     Assisted instructional staff at all ranks of appointment in devising materials for use in the networked classroom and its multimedia capacities

“Castle of the Book.”  Biblio. Spring 1998.

“A Comprehensive Index and Bibliography to the Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon” (with Cynthia Lawford) in Letitia Elizabeth Landon:  Selected Writings.  Eds. Jerome J. McGann and Daniel Reiss.  Broadview Literary Texts Series.  Calgary, Ontario:  Broadview Press, 1998.

"L.E.L: The Literary Gazette Collection" (Critical review / Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Corvey Women Writers (http://www2.shu.ac.uk/corvey/cw3/ContribPage.cfm?Contrib=23). Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield, England, 1998

“Sight, Sound and Sense:  L.E.L.’s ‘Multimedia’ Productions’ in Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period.  The MLA Teaching Approaches Series.  Eds. Stephen C. Behrendt and Harriet Linkin.  New York:  MLA, 1997.

“The Sheffield Hallam Corvey Project:  Hypermedia and Romantic Women Writers” in Proceedings of the Third International Corvey Symposium.  Paderborn, Germany, 1997.

Critical Writings by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ed. F.J. Sypher. Delmar, New York: Scholar's Facsimiles and Reprints (http://www2.shu.ac.uk/corvey/cw3/ContribPage.cfm?Contrib=16). Critical review / Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Glenn T. Himes, 1996

“An Interactive Sampling of 18^th-Century British Satire, Caricature, and Narrative.”  CD-ROM.  New Media Centers Consortium CD Sampler #3.  October 1995.

Principal Lecturer

1999                             Sheffield Hallam University                Sheffield, England

Classes taught:

§         British Poetry 1750 – 1850

§         Post-graduate Research Methods

Graduate Teaching Assistant

1994—1997                         University of Nebraska-Lincoln                     Lincoln, NE

Classes taught:

§         Composition I (English 150)

§         Composition II (English 151)

§         Composition and Literature (English 101)

§         Twentieth-Century Fiction (English 205)

§         Restoration and 18^th-Century British Literature (English 354—internship with Professor Robert Stock)

§         Nineteenth-Century British Literature (English 365—internship with Professor Stephen C. Behrendt)

Tutor

Fall 1994                              University of Nebraska-Lincoln            Lincoln, NE

§         Provided individual instruction in writing and academic mentoring for undergraduate and graduate students through the Writing Assistance Center

Instructor of Composition and Literature

1994—1995                          Southeast Community College              Lincoln, NE

Classes taught:

§         Modern Fiction (English 205)

§         Communications II (English 102)

Computerized Teaching Applications

“British Poetry 1750—1850.”  A multimedia Web/CD-ROM-hybrid course               enhancement package.

“John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera through Time.” Co-authored with Professor Robert Stock.  Grant-endowed project (funded by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Teaching Council)

“William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience:  An Interactive Facsimile.”  Co-authored with Professor Stephen C. Behrendt.

“Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s The Flowers of Loveliness (1837):  An Interactive Facsimile.”

§         Glenn T. Himes Home Page

http://www.people.iup.edu/ghimes

§         Site devoted to Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a Romantic-era British woman writer whose importance to literary history and aesthetics is now being recognized on a wide scale in the US and Great Britain.  The site was favorably reviewed in a recent issue of The European English Messenger.

http://www.people.iup.edu/ghimes/index_landon.html

§         British Gift Books and Annuals

http://www.shu.ac.uk/annuals

§         Developed the Cold Fusion concept for the database portions of the site

http://www.shu.ac.uk/corvey

§         Technical coordinator for this site, the fruit of a grant from the Edna Sheary Foundation

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/isr/sheary

Websites

Papers and Presentations:

“Using Technology to Support Higher Education’s “New” Learners,” Annual RECAP Conference, West Chester University of PA.  May, 2004.

“Teaching Teachers Technology.”  14^th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, Florida Community College, Jacksonville, Fla.  April, 2003.

“Teaching Faculty WebCT, or, the Fine Art of Herding Cats,”  WebCt  International Conference, Boston, Mass. 2002.

“Breaking the Bandwidth Barrier: CD-ROM/Web Hybrids in Distance Education,”  (with Dr. Steven Jackson), 12^th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, Florida Community College, Jacksonville, Fla, April 2001.

“Scholar and Poet; Poet and Scholar: Collaboration in the Work of Emma Roberts and Letitia Elizabeth Landon,” Romantic Couplings Conference, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, March 1999

“Wipe that man’s face off that man’s face, or Hypermedia and the (Non-) Structure,” 1998 Corvey Symposium, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England, November 1998

“The Sheffield Hallam Corvey Project,” plenary speaker at the Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850 Conference, Gregynog, Wales, July 1998

“Flights of the Pen?  Assessing the Work of Letitia Elizabeth Landon” at the Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850 Conference, Gregynog, Wales, July 1998

“Romanticizing the Empire:  Emma Roberts on India” at the Literature and Travel Writing, 1750 to the Present Conference, University of Western England, Bristol, April 1998

“Poetic Prophecy in the Computer Age:  The Design and Classroom Use of ‘William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience:  An Interactive Facsimile’” with Dr. Philip Cox at the Blake and the Book conference, Strawberry Hill, London, England, April 1998

“Digital Pedagogy for the New Millennium:  Developing Custom Courseware for the Electronic Classroom,” plenary speaker at the University of Oregon-Eugene, April 1998

“Nineteenth-Century Multimedia: Teaching L.E.L.’s ‘Cottage Courtship’ in the Digital Classroom” at the 18^th- and 19^th-Century Women Writer’s Conference, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, March 1998

“Selling the Empire: Women Romantic Writers on India” at the Corvey Seminar Series, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England, March 1998

“Ruined by Poetry: L.E.L.’s ‘Grasmere Lake:  A Sketch by a Cockney!’” at the Romantic Lives Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, February 1998

“Wiring the Castle: Digital Access to the Edition Corvey” at the Digital Resources in the Humanities conference, Oxford University, Oxford, England, June 1997

“The Sheffield Hallam University Corvey Project:  Hypermedia and Romantic Women Writers,” invited speaker at the University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, May 1997

Presented “William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience:  An Interactive Facsimile,” “An Interactive Sampling of 18^th-Century British Visual Satire, Caricature, and Narrative,” and “Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s The Flowers of Loveliness:  An Interactive Facsimile” in a discussion of hypermedia custom courseware at the University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, May 1997

Guest lecturer in the Sage Program, Continuing Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, fall 1996

Presented “Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s The Flowers of Loveliness: An Interactive Facsimile” at the New Media Center Open House, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 1996

Discussed instructional design strategies in “Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s The Flowers of Loveliness: An Interactive Facsimile” at the Learning Technologies Workshop, New Media Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, May 1996

“Using Macromedia’s Authorware for Developing Interactive Multimedia Teaching Aids” at the NTCHE Multimedia Workshop, New Media Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1996

“Interactive Multimedia Teaching:  The Future” as a featured speaker at the Pugh Award Competition on behalf of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1996—UN-L received the award

“Visual and Verbal Intersections in the Art of Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Emma Roberts” at the Midwest MLA Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 1994

“Toward a Feminist Theology” at the EAPSU Conference, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, April 1992                                                                

Honors and Awards

"Researcher of the Future" for the 2004 Building Blocks for the Future Reception. Awarded by Dr. Rena fowler, Dean of Libraries, the School of Graduate Studies and the IUP Research Institute. awarded $300. in professional development funds. Indiana University of Pa October 13, 2004

“Island of Excellence” – School of Cultural Studies IT initiative, Sheffield     Hallam University, Sheffield, England Conceptualized 3 components of IT development, comprising a multi-station virtual classroom, staff development authoring station and a “Smartcart;” investigated hardware and software for adoption; researched and wrote the proposal, which was adopted in its entirety by the university

Shortlisted in the EASA98 (European Academic Software Award 1998) competition for my entry, “Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s The Flowers of Loveliness:  An Interactive Facsimile;” categories of assessment were “Educational Software” (how the interaction supports learning); “Research Software” (how well the interaction supports research activities); and “IT-supported learning” (how the interaction uses IT facilities, such as the Internet, for the innovative provision of learning and teaching)

Nancy and Ronald Reagan Graduate Fund Fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1996

Warren F. and Edith R. Day Student Aid Fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1996

Nominated by Professor Stephen C. Behrendt for a Graduate Teaching Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, January 1995

Awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Parents’ Association and Teaching Council, January 1995

Emma Butz Tidball Fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 1994

                PhD (English with fields in Interactive Multimedia and Instructional

                                      Design, 18^th-century British literature and 19^th-century British

                                      literature), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1993—1997

                 MA (English with concentration in Classics), University of Nebraska-

                                      Lincoln, 1992-1993

                 BA cum laude (English and Religious Studies), Indiana University of

                                      Pennsylvania, 1989-1992