Design Forward is a holistic faculty development program I created by the Open CoLab at PSU that supports a community-based exploration of the intentional design of teaching and learning. DF incorporates the values and approaches of critical pedagogy, which sees teaching as inherently intertwined with social justice. In 2025, the CoLab was awarded a three-year grant from the Davis Foundation, Designing Forward that uses the DF project as the primary faculty development curriculum. The grant focuses specifically on developing instructional design practices that support emergent and flexible teaching and learning.

Domain of One’s Own is a project that originated at the University of Mary Washington and has since been adopted and adapted by schools around the globe. It provides domain names and open-source Web hosting to UMW students, staff, and faculty. Participants can use their domain and Web space to build out their digital identity with complete control over content and administration of the space. I served as project manager for the first year of Domains at UMW, coordinating faculty development, student support, and project infrastructure. In that role, I narrated and shared the challenges of supporting and developing Domains via my personal blog and social media.

UMW’s Online Learning Initiative provided faculty development programming for online teaching, including guidance on drafting of online course proposals, overseeing peer and student review of proposals, and coordinating follow-up support from within the division of teaching and learning technologies for resulting courses.

DS106 is an online digital storytelling community, which I originated in collaboration with colleagues at UMW, and for which I helped build an open, crowdsourced assignment bank. DS106 is built around a credit-bearing course at UMW (CPSC 106) and activity is organized around a Twitter hashtag (#ds106), with open, online participants working through assignments and challenges at the same time as students at UMW. Since its initial launch, DS106 has been adapted by faculty at numerous other schools to give students the opportunity to share their digital storytelling with the larger community. 

Domain Fellows was an annual cohort of selected UMW students who committed to investigating and understanding Domain of One’s Own outside of curricular contexts. I oversaw student meetings throughout the year, assisting them with developing their own personal project on Domains, and helping them host events related to the project.