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Faculty features, AECT spotlight, Women's Center talk
Dec. 8, 2013 – In July Dr. Peter Doolittle gave a TED Talk at TED University in Edinburgh ~ watch, learn and
enjoy!
Dr. Peter Doolittle
Dr. Doolittle is an associate professor of education specializing in Educational Psychology. His research
is focused on learning in multimedia environments, with specific emphasis on the role of working
memory.
Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world[1]
Instructional Design and Technology Program at AECT
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The AECT study tour group at the
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA.
Our Instructional Design and Technology Program recently participated in the annual convention of the
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) in Anaheim, CA. AECT is an
international association for instructional design and technology professionals. AECT members may be
found in colleges and universities; in the Armed Forces and industry; in museums, libraries, and
hospitals; in the many places where educational change is underway. For more information about AECT,
see www.aect.org. The Hokie team of faculty and students engaged in a variety of activities and events
at AECT, as well as provided support for the conference hosts. AECT Past President Barbara Lockee
coordinated study tours to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA and USC's Institute for
Creative Technologies in Playa Vista, CA. Both events offered terrific opportunities to learn about cuttingedge technologies and training innovations in the government and military sectors. Plus, they were both
great fun!
Dr. David Moore
IDT alumnus Dr. David Moore -- Associate Professor, Ohio University and lifelong Hokie fan!
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The VT Instructional Technology Student Association (ITSA) hosted the Virginia Tech table at the AECT
University Reception. Our ITSA students welcomed many Hokie alumni and AECT colleagues from
across the country and around the world. Lucky alumnus David Moore won the raffle prize - a football
signed by all of our Hokie football coaches!
Kibong Song & Wendy Gentry take a quickphoto break before
broadcasting the next general session.
IDT students Kibong Song, Wendy Gentry, Kwame Ansong-Gyiha, and Jacqueline Woodyard provided
outstanding service to AECT throughout the conference. This team supported a live webcast of each of
the general sessions, as well as recorded video interviews with some of IDT's leaders and great
contributors for the AECT HistoryMakers Project.
Jackie Woodyard provided excellent camera work on the
AECTHistoryMakers Project!
Our Hokies at AECT brought home some awards as well!
Team members Wendy A. Gentry, Julaine Fowlin, Wei Li, Rongbin Wu, Xin Chen, Elza H. Soares, Teri
Wagner, Monica Sulecio de Alvarez, Mario E. Calixte, Sandy Malapile, Erica Inge, L.A. Cox II, and Dr.
Katherine Cennamo won the Information Age Publishing Distance Education Best Practice Award Second Place. The Best Practice Award is explained as: "the practice that is submitted can be any
aspect of distance education that would qualify as a Best Practice. This means that it can serve as an
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example that can be emulated by others based on the description submitted...." The project is entitled,
"Ut Prosim (That I May Serve): The Development of an International Team of Novice Instructional
Designers through a Service - Learning Cognitive Apprenticeship." The team's "best practice" was Dr.
Cennamo's instructional approach to develop an international team of novice instructional designers
through a Service - Learning Cognitive Apprenticeship.
Wendy Gentry receiving the Best Practice Award on behalf of
the VT team.
She was honored to present an overview of the project at the Division of Distance Learning awards
luncheon. IDT alumnus Aaron Bond and Daron Williams also received an award. Information Age
Publishing Distance Education Crystal Award - Third Place, for a module about Academic Integrity for
the Undergraduate Honor System and First Year Experience here at VT. Awarded by AECT's Division of
Distance Learning, the Crystal Award is "To recognize innovative and outstanding multimedia-based
distance learning courses...and distance learning projects."
Dr. Barbara Lockee with IDT students
Barbara Lockee also received a Special Service Award for the AECT HistoryMakers Project. She said
the best part was sharing the honor with the IDT students, many of who have assisted with this ongoing
initiative to preserve the history of the IDT field.
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Virginia Tech students and faculty presented MANY sessions at AECT ~ wow!
Abdelmagid, R., & Hirt J. (2013). Leadership in higher education: The role of women.
Blevins, S., & Brill, J. (2013). Aligning with Ely's eight: A second look at the RIPPLES survey.
Bond, M. A., & Lockee, B. (2013). Constructing guidelines for building communities of practice for
supporting faculty professional development in electronic environments.
Gentry, W., Sulecio de Alvarez, M., Soares, W., & Calixte, M. (2013). Careful localization of Elearning instructional design for non-profit organizations.
Larson, M., & Lockee, B. (2013). From zero to sixty: Targeting essential skills in bringing novice
designers up to speed.
Herring, M., Wilson. B., Warren, S., Hannafin, M., Marra, R., Lockee, B., Smaldino, S., & Spector,
J. M. (2013). Learning, Problem Solving, and Mindtools-Honoring David H. Jonassen.
Lockee, B., Lewis, R., & Larson, M. (2013). Development of a distance program evaluation
model.
Lockee, B., & Song. K. (2013). HistoryMakers Project Update.
Leary, H., Lockee, B., Miller, T. W., Smaldino, S., Spector, J. M.,& White. C. (2013). Leadership,
history, and the future: Voices of AECT Past-Presidents
Lockee, B., Meszaros, P., Kimbrell, M. (2013). Putting careers in context: Development of a webbased game to engage girls in technology-related jobs
Ondin, Z., & Ondin Z. (2013). Instructional module on correcting exposure by adjusting shutter
speed, aperture size and ISO based on situated learning.
Ondin, Z., & Schilder, E. (2013). Designing and developing an authentic learning environment for
enhancing mathematical problem solving.
Schilder, E. (2013). Media literacy assessment.
Our VT IDT students and faculty also facilitated sessions and engaged in many opportunities for
learning and professional development, as well as enjoyed some California sunshine. It was a
rewarding and energizing event and we are already looking forward to Jacksonville next year!
Faculty Publication
Dr. Amy Price Azano
Dr. Amy Price Azano is an Assistant Professor of Education specializing in Adolescent Literacy.
Dr. Azano's chapter on gifted rural students in Callahan and Plucker's 2nd edition of Critical Issues in
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Gifted Education has been published.
Azano, A. P. (2014) Gifted rural students. In J. Plucker & C. Callahan (Eds). Critical issues and
practices in gifted education: What the research says (2nd ed) (pp. 297-304). National Association
for Gifted Children.
Welcoming Our New SOE Staff Member-Kim Cook!
Kim Cook, Program Support Technician, School of Education
"I was born and raised in southern West Virginia and hold a Bachelor of Science Degree from Bluefield
State College in Business Administration with minors in Marketing and Management. I worked for
Virginia Tech in the past, but took time off to render my young children and work closer to home. Since
leaving Virginia Tech ten years ago I worked as an Office Manager for a multi-million dollar company,
and most recently in the public school system where I served as a Parent Involvement Coordinator,
teacher, and secretary. My experience in the public school has given me many fond memories of
working with kids, which is a passion of mine. I will definitely miss seeing the kids I worked with on a
daily basis. However, coming back to work for Virginia Tech feels like I've come home. I enjoy meeting
new people and feel very comfortable here. I am often described as a "real people person" by those that
know me, since I have never met a stranger. I am a huge Hokie fan following both football and
basketball, which, of course, coming from West Virginia causes me a lot of grief from local Mountaineer
fans! When people ask me about my career change from public school to university I tell them "I am not
closing the book, just turning the page to begin a new chapter in my life." I am excited to be back here at
Virginia Tech and look forward to working with all those associated with the School of Education. My
hope is to finish out my career as a Hokie!"
Director Mullen has been working on human rights issues alongside prominent national and
international scholars
Read about the Flagstaff Seminar/Kappa Delta Pi meeting in San Francisco in collaboration with the
American Educational Research Association on May 1, 2013 "A group of eighteen prominent national
and international scholars met in San Francisco and recommitted themselves to confront issues of
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poverty faced by schoolchildren in the world and to work towards global improvement in the education of
girls. These urgent matters are a worldwide problem with over 100 million children not in school, the
majority being girls. The two primary thrusts surrounding how to enable Flagstaff Seminar research to
activism was seen as a clear call to action for the participants to continue their work towards ensuring
that education is a basic human right and that educational leaders can and must become emboldened to
seek solutions that go beyond the school house door, even if this means confronting historic cultural and
political forces that act as barriers to basic improvements in the reach and quality of education in the
world. Reaction to the concept paper framed the discussion, that is, how do we extend what we do
beyond leader preparation." (by Dr. Rosemary Papa, verbatim excerpt) NAU Global's latest publication,
including the above
excerpt:
http://nau.edu/uploadedFiles/Administrative/Provost/CIE/_Media/NAU_Global_fall_2013_web.pdf
Standing left to right: Carol Mullen,
Virginia Tech University; Martha McCarthy Loyola Marymount Los Angeles; Jim Berry, Eastern Michigan
University; Nathan Bond, Texas State University; Uche Grace Emetarom, Nigerian Professors of
Education Administration; Faye Snodgress, Executive Director of Kappa Delta Pi International Honor
Society in Education; Carolyn Shields, Wayne State University; Ira Bogotch, Florida Atlantic University;
Michael Sampson, Northern Arizona University; Concha Delgado Gaitan, University of California-Davis;
Jane Lindle Clemson, University of South Carolina; Lisa Ehrich, Queensland University of Technology,
Australia; and Don Scott University of Calgary, Canada. Seated: Fenwick English, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill; Rosemary Papa, Northern Arizona University
Carol Mullen recently delivered an invited talk to an enthusiastic group of faculty, students, and
administrators from around the campus at the Inn at Virginia Tech. The event was sponsored by the
Women's Center, Office of the Provost. The talk was titled "Academic professional trajectories using
Joseph Campbell's framework of the universal life journey."
The deadline for submissions for the January issue of News2Note is Monday, 23 December (even
though the university will now be closed that day).
Please send all information directly to Associate Dean Debby Stoudt: [2]davebrod@vt.edu
The School of Education's Newsworthy News has a NEW EDITOR!
David Brod will be Editor of the Newsworthy News starting Spring 2014, with the guidance of Dr. Carol
Mullen who is Founding Editor. David is a first-year PhD student in the Higher Education program in our
SOE. Please send submissions, photos, and any questions directly to davebrod@vt.edu.
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The Newsworthy News will soon have an online submission process, coming Spring 2014. Due to the
high responsiveness of our SOE members who make submissions and read the news, this media outlet
is proving successful, thus we intend to keep it going! Thank you for all of your contributions ~ keep them
coming.
Links
[1]. http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_doolittle_how_your_working_memory_makes_sense_of_the_world.html
[2]. mailto:dstoudt@vt.edu
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