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	Joan Monahan Watson
	jmwatson@vt.edu
	http://www.idst.vt.edu/jmwatson

Current Courses: • Technology as Vehicle.... • Social Networking and the 21st Century Student • Teaching Using Technology: Faculty Panel Discussion • "From the Other Side of the Podium": Student Panel Discussion Past Courses: • The Scholar Learning Management System: An Overview • Blackboard Faculty Guest Speaker (Track B, Summer 2006) • Emerging Technologies at Virginia Tech (Track C, Summer 2006) • Survey of Effective Hybrid or Blended Course Design (Track C, Summer 2006) • Scholar (Track D, Summer 2006) • Student Culture, Technology and Critical Literacy (Tracks D & G, Summer 2006) • Developing Digital Media Faculty Guest Speaker (Track E, Summer 2006) • Introduction to Learner-Centered Instruction (Track G, Summer 2006) • Student Panel for Tablet PCs (facilitator) (Track N, Summer 2006) • Introduction to Learner-Centered Instruction (Spring 2006) • Student Culture and Instructional Contexts (Spring 2006) • Teaching Using Technology: Faculty Panel (Spring 2006) • Introduction to Scholar (Spring 2006) • Technology and Critical Literacy (Spring 2006) • From the Other Side of the Podium: Student Panel Discussion (Spring 2006) Past Tracks: • Track G: Creating Student-Centered Instruction • Track G: Creating Learner-Centered Instruction (Spring 2006) • Track P: Independent Project Development (Spring 2006)


Assistant Director, Undergraduate Studies / Department of Interdisciplinary Studies


• Department of Interdisciplinary Studies • Faculty Development Institute


Joan Monahan Watson is an instructor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Medieval and Renaissance Humanities at Virginia Tech. Her courses, which are presented both in traditional and fully on-line learning environments, seek to define the social forces used to construct cultures, past and present, by fostering critical analyses of philosophy, religion, literature, art, politics, education, and technology. These elements are examined severally and together as lenses through which history is envisioned and revised. In addition to teaching in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, and in keeping with her interest in critical literacy, she also collaborates with the Faculty Development Institute at Virginia Tech where she considers the pedagogical significance and application of emerging technologies. She has presented numerous papers and workshops reflecting her interest in the relationships among and between culture, motivation, and technology in the humanities classroom.




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