Category: Teaching

I believe that an instructor’s role in a class is to lead his or her students’ through knowledge as a tour guide through the materials. To be an effective tour guide, one must be thoroughly prepared. Before each class that I teach, I want at least three hours of preparation for every hour that I teach. To prepare, I reexamine the material and make a determination on the best way to present the information to my students. Sometimes, this is in the form of a lecture. Most of the time, I try to use a series of interactions to allow the students to become a part of the in-class learning experience. It has been my understanding that lectures, when used repeatedly, can lose the students’ attention and can make them disinterested in the material. I try to avoid full lecture classes whenever possible.

A Narrative of My Teaching

A Narrative of My Teaching

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This post represents the first of several narratives that I need to provide the Tenure Committee before the end of September. The focus of this post will be related to my teaching over the past five years at Ohio Northern University.
A Conceptual Framework

A Conceptual Framework

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This post is the summary of the third day of the CAMS 2391: Memetic Communication course at Ohio Northern University. The focus for this day was to discuss the connection between culture, social networks, communities, and ways of reading mediated and cultural work to the larger discussion of memetic communication. This summary reflects the material taught January 18, 2019.
Memes vs. Tropes

Memes vs. Tropes

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This is the summary of the second day of the CAMS 2391: Memetic Communication course at Ohio Northern University. The focus for this day was to provide some operational definitions for terms we will be using in this course. This summary reflects the material taught January 16, 2019.
Syllabus Day

Syllabus Day

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This is the summary of the first day of the CAMS 2391: Memetic Communication course at Ohio Northern University. The focus for this day was to set up the ground rules for the semester in terms of class structure and the role of the student. This summary reflects the material taught January 14, 2019.
Convergent Publishing Syllabus

Convergent Publishing Syllabus

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Convergent publishing is one of the harder courses to prepare for going into a given semester. I want to provide a platform for students to create content that reflects their interest and allows those students to apply what they have learned in the first two years of the Multimedia Journalism program towards a representation of …

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Global Communication Syllabus

Global Communication Syllabus

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One of the central projects that have defined my time at Ohio Northern University has been to develop a new study aboard program between Communication and Media Studies and the University of Salford in Manchester, England. This partnership led to a one-off workshop between our two institutions and Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA. The …

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OCA Distinguished Innovative Teacher Award

OCA Distinguished Innovative Teacher Award

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One of the biggest honors I received this fall was winning the Distinguished Innovative Teacher Award from the Ohio Communication Association earlier this month. It was nice to be recognized by my colleagues at Ohio Northern University and other communication professionals across Ohio. One of the areas that earned me this honor was my style …

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Memetic Communication Syllabus

Memetic Communication Syllabus

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One of the more consistent requests for a class from my students was a course on memes and their impact on culture and society. Most of the students would share gifs and memes via our Slack channels. There are times that I am a little lost in the visual language, but I quickly catch-up via …

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