Teaching

Spring 2013 office hours

  • Monday – 1-4 p.m.
  • Tuesday/Thursday 9-11 a.m.

Classes I teach (or have taught)

See also: Workshops

Service and scholarly activity

Ongoing: I write a column every two months for the Des Moines Register on social media.

March 29, 2013 – Presented lunch and learn to Drake Faculty about using social media in the classroom

March 7, 2013 – Led an SEO workshop at Strategic America in West Des Moines.

March 1, 2013 – Wrote Des Moines Register article on Golden Rules of Social Media

January 2013 – Attended multimedia storytelling training at Knight Digital Media Center

July 2013 – Taught journalism sequence at Business Horizons high school camp in Pella, Iowa.

June 2012 – Taught design sequence at MediaNowSTL high school journalism camp.

January 2012 – Redesigned the website for Andrews Auld Heating and Cooling

January 11, 2012 – Spoke to IABC Iowa about writing for the web and mobile journalism.

April 2012 – Judged website design category for Journalism Educators of Metropolitan Kansas City high school journalism contest

February 2012 – Spoke at Iowa Newspaper Association Convention about Writing for the Web

Nov. 17, 2011 – Presented to National Communication Association Convention on the topic: Voices For and of The People: New Media, Journalism, and the Iowa Caucuses

November 2011 – Presented to patch.com Iowa editors about social media

August 2011 – Taught weeklong adviser workshop on design at University of Iowa

June 2011 – Taught design sequence at MediaNowSTL high school journalism camp.

August 2010 – Spoke to the Iowa High School Press Association about Social Media, the future of media and your role

October 2010 – Led an Iowa Newspaper Foundation webinar on Improving your website to increase traffic

October 2010 – Redesigned website for Drake Neighborhood Association

November 2010 – Presented as part of a Mofuse Jump Into Mobile webinar