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I am an Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University (Armstrong Campus) where I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in professional writing and social media. My current research interests include coding/computational literacy, psychological safety, and design thinking. I am particularly interested in the intersections between professional communication and digital media (especially children’s media), including serious games and coding narratives for children.
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Successful team collaborations require psychological safety (PS)—a measure that addresses how individuals perceive their own behaviors in a team, allowing members to be comfortable being themselves. Technical communication curricula do not engage deeply with managing the socioemotional components of collaboration.
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The multiple conceptualizations of design thinking make it difficult to implement and teach in TPC, especially given classroom constraints. We propose a framework (mind-set and process) that balances knowing with the thinking/doing of design thinking. This framework is effectively implemented through game design. We demonstrate that game design inc...
To better understand how serious interactive fiction (IF) fits into creative writing pedagogy, we first consider how interface offers both affordances and constraints to the writer. Second, we discuss the ways teaching serious IF foregrounds the benefit of digital tools for creative writing. Third, we examine the interrelationship among research, i...
This article establishes traits of adaptable communicators in the 21st century, explains why adaptability should be a goal of technical communication educators, and shows how multimodal pedagogy supports adaptability. Three examples of scalable, multimodal assignments (infographics, research interviews, and software demonstrations) that evidence th...
While participatory culture is a relatively new concept, children's texts and games arguably have a long history of demanding active reader participation. For example, Marah Gubar's Artful Dodgers makes a compelling argument for Golden Age children's authors' respect for engaged child readers and its ramifications: "these writers were invested in b...
This was a student's response, spelling error and all, when asked her impression of the class wiki. Her opinion was surprisingly similar to those of the other nineteen students, who ranged from college freshmen to seniors. And she wasn't too far off in her attempt to relate this strange word to another culture either. As readers know by now, wiki i...
