Publications #

The Open Handbook #

I wrote The Open Handbook—a free and open-source handbook for student writers and researchers. The project was originally written in LaTeX but is now pure html. The project code is hosted at GitHub.

• An earlier version of The Open Handbook that I typeset in LaTeX is still available.

Academic Writing #

Academic publications, talks, and other writing is available upon request.

Digital Portfolio Project #

DartWrite Digital Portfolios. For several years (2017-2021) I co-led a group of web developers, faculty, researchers, and administrators who created the DartWrite Digital Portfolio Project, a digital portfolio system for Dartmouth’s students and faculty. This work was made possible by a $250,000 grant we received from the Davis Educational Foundation. The DartWrite program provides every student a digital home for their writing and other artifacts or performances. An increasing body of research shows that students who curate their work over time learn more, take greater responsibility for their own educations, develop metacritical thinking skills, and discover connections between their disparate educational experiences. The portfolios also provide students with an opportunity to showcase their work to various audiences, including future employers. We built our digital portfolio system on WordPress.

• My various roles and responsibilities in the DartWrite project:
  • Served on the committee who authored the successful grant for the DartWrite project.
  • Responsible for evaluating various CMS options and making the final decision among several competing platforms.
  • Served as project liaison between Web Services, faculty, and other campus stakeholders.
  • Authored technical manuals to support faculty and students who embraced digital portfolios for their learning or teaching.
  • Wrote scripts for support staff who gave info sessions on the DartWrite project.
  • Chief researcher investigating the pedagogical justification for using digital portfolios in the writing classroom.
  • Composed web content and produced video tutorials used to support and advertise the project.
  • Performed text mining (hierarchical clustering and sentiment analysis) of student writing over time. These data were used to fortify our pedagogy and help discover best practices for student learning

Teaching #

No-Silo.com is the companion website to my writing courses at Dartmouth College. The site contains syllabi, course materials, workshops, The Open Handbook, lectures, and other related bits and pieces.

The idea for this site came from a talk I gave to the faculty of the Writing Program in 2020 about tearing down information silos and creating an open-source teaching culture among our faculty.