adevans@vt.edu
http://amsdiane.blogspot.com/
- Web Design: Building an Effective Web Site
- Engaging Learners through Google and Yahoo! Tools
- Dreamweaver 8 (Part One): A Hands-on Overview and Introduction
- Dreamweaver 8 (Part Two): Site Management and Interface Design
- Dreamweaver 8 (Part Three): Cascading Style Sheets, Templates, and other Advanced Topics
- A Survey of Emergine Web 2.0 Technologies: Engaging Students with Technology to Build a Community of Practice
- Second Life (Part One): A Hands-on Overview and Introduction
- Second Life (Part Two): Pedagogy in Virtual Worlds
Past Courses:
As Presenter or Co-Presenter:
- Creating Content for Blackboard, Part II: Adobe Acrobat 8.0 & Scanning Text for the Web
- Universal Design
- Web Page Design & Creation using Dreamweaver 8
- Planning and Evaluating Your Technology Use
Past Tracks:
- B: An Introduction to Blackboard
- C: Using the Web for Instruction: Blackboard and Other Tools
- D: New Strategies and Tools for Teaching with Technology
- E: Creating Media Content for Instruction
- J: Fostering Student Engagement, Learning, and Development
- R: Deep Media for Research and Education
- T: Using Tablet PCs in the Classroom: Teaching in a Mobile Environment
- V: Make-up / Refresher Track
- Faculty Development Institute (FDI)
- Instructional Design and Technology, School of Education
- Instructional Design and Technology Student Association
- Virginia Tech Triathlon Club
Technology and learning, Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Multimedia Cognition studies, and situated cognition studies in the realm of Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVE) and Massively Multi-player Online (Role Playing) Games (MMOG). Also have personal interests in applying Deweyian principles upon self-improvement through intellectual, spiritual, and physical inquiry.
I have the personal opinion that learning can be fun!
When you come to my class, you'd better be prepared to participant and to interact!
I love to learn and I love to teach. I studied computer science for my undergrad and realized in my senior year that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in a cubicle. I switched majors and graduated with a BA in English with an emphasis on Middle English literature (from a Feminist perspective). I then wrapped up my Technical Writing Certificate and immediately launched into an MS in Instructional Design and Technology. Shortly thereafter, I went to work as a Lecturer in Communication Design and Internet Communication and Technologies. During this time I was the winner of the 2005 CELT Conference Exemplary Online Instruction (California State University, Chico) for my “CDES 270A: Introduction to Multimedia Design and Development” blended-learning course. I enjoyed the work that went into that course, and thoroughly enjoyed teaching, but felt that I needed to know more about the science and theories behind learning. So, I came to Virginia Tech and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. within the School of Education.
I have a strong background in applying Gagne’s Events of Instruction and Keller’s ARCS model of motivation to address both aspects of Learning and Instruction. At this time, my teaching philosophy is grounded in studies based on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) in conjunction with Situated Cognition theories, but I am dabbling in more moderate and social constructivist flavors (i.e., Vygotsky).
Teaching Experience:
- Lecturer for Communication Design Dept. (California State University, Chico)
- Lab Instructor for Communication Design Dept. (California State University, Chico)
- Graduate Assistant for The Center for Excellence in the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance (California State University, Chico)
- Teaching Assistant for various depts. (California State University, Chico)
- Lead Workshop Instructor for Student Computing (California State University, Chico)
Related Experience
- Consultant for Distance and Online Education (Migrant Clinicians Network)
- Instructional Designer and Technologist (Chico Area Recreation District)
- Distance Learning Instructional Support Assistant (California State University, Chico)
- Online and Multimedia Producer (The Center for Excellence in the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance at California State University, Chico)
- User Support Services Field Technician (California State University, Chico
- Communication & Language Trainer/Translator for COC-AG (Burghausen, Germany)
- C++ Programmer & Technical Writer for COC-AG (Burghausen, Germany)
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