Honors and Activities
- Finalist, AEJMC/Scripps Howard Teacher of the Year, 2011
- AEJMC/Knight Foundation Bridge Grant, 2011 - $8,000 for course development in conjunction with a Knight News Challenge Winner
- Panel, @you: Making Social Media Work for You and Your Business, Austin Women's Conference, Nov. 2011
- Teach-a-thon, Storify It, Journalism Interactive, University of Maryland, Oct. 2011
- Named to "Top 50 Social Media Savvy Professors in America," OnlineColleges.net, September 2011.
- Director, Mass Communication Week, Texas State University, 2011; Social media lead, 2007-2010, txstatemcweek.com
- Selected speaker, If I Were In Charge panel, Seven Things Everyone Should Know, Online News Association, Boston, Sept. 2011
- Panel, Social Media in the Classroom, AEJMC National Convention, St. Louis, Aug. 2011
- Panel, Social Media for Magazines, AEJMC National Convention, St. Louis, Aug. 2011
- Texas Social Media Award Winner, Austin American-Statesman, 2010 - Video Accompanying Nomination
- Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, SJMC
Nominee, Junior Faculty, 2010
- Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching,College Nominee, Junior Faculty,
2010
- AEJMC Best of the Web, 2nd Place (SXTXState.com) in Journalism category for student project, 2009
- Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, SJMC
Nominee, Junior Faculty, 2009
- Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, SJMC Nominee, Junior Faculty,
2009
- AEJMC Promising Professor Competition, Faculty 2nd Place, 2008
- AEJMC Best of the Web, supervised student project winners:
- Texas State Mass Comm Week blog and coverage Fall 2008 & 2009 – txstatemcweek.com
- Guest Speaker, Social Media Techniques, Marquette University, October 2009
- Guest Speaker, Social Media and Trends in Multimedia, Indiana University, April 2009
- Guest Speaker, Trends in New Media, ASNE Reynolds High School Journalism Institute, 2008 & 2009
- AEJMC Panel, Online and Offline Social Networking: Contexts and Applications in the Academy,Chicago, IL, August 6, 2008
- AEJMC Panel, Lifting Our Llamp: Educating Minority, Immigrant and Disadvantaged Students,Chicago, IL, August 8, 2008
- Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, SJMC
Nominee, Junior Faculty, 2008
- Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, SJMC Nominee, Junior Faculty,
2008
- Presentation Trends in Interactive Advertising, American
Advertising Federation, Jan. 25, 2008
- Presentation Trends in Multimedia, to Society of Professional
Journalists, Nov. 29, 2007
- Texas State University Research Enhancement Grant, A Nation of Friends: Diffusion
of Online Social Networking , Summer 2008
- Texas State University Research Enhancement Grant, User-Created Content:
How Social Networking Translates to Social Capital, Summer 2007
- Presentation Creating a Photo Slideshow in Flash, Teaching
and Working in a Multimedia World, AEJMC National Convention Workshop, August
8, 2007.
- Hosted panel The YouTube Effect: User-Generated Content and Viral Marketing,
AEJMC National Convention, Washington, D.C., August 10, 2007
- Presentation at National Writer's Workshop panel, Stories Degree Zero:
Enacting Journalism in a Multimedia Environment, San Antonio, TX, May 19,
2007
- Presentation Social Media, Round Rock campus, March 6, 2007
- Presentation to Bobcat Promotions, Introduction to Web Design, April
13, 2007.
- Guest lecturer, Advertising Campaigns class, Interactive Media in Advertising,
TSU, April 3, 2007.
- Co-director, Best of the Web competition, AEJMC Communication Technology
Division, 2006-2007
- Texas State University Research Enhancement Grant, Summer 2007
- Texas State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, ad
hoc Ph.D committee
- Texas State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Library
and Technology committees
- VCU Interdisciplinary Ph.D in Media, Art, and Text committee
- VCU School of Mass Communications Technology, Internship, and Curriculum
committees
- VCU Search Committee for joint appointment position in History and Media
Studies to support Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program
- Guest Lecturer, Communication Technology and Global Society, November 15,
2005
- Attended Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Chicago, October
2005
- Webmaster, VCU School of Mass Communications, 2005-2006
- AEJMC Promising Professor Competition, Graduate Student 2nd Place, 2004
- Bruton Fellowship, 2004-2005
- The University of Texas Continuing Fellowship, 2003-2004
- AEJMC,
Best of the Web Design Competition, Honorable Mention for Teaching
Sites, 2002
- Nettie Doscher More Fellowship, 2002
- Ada Francis Miller Fellowship, 2000 and 2002
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award- School of Journalism, 2001
- The University of Texas Preemptive Fellowship, 1999-2000
- The University of Texas Continuing Tuition Fellowship, 2001-2002
- Reviewer, Web Wizard's Guide to Photoshop, Addison-Wesley, 2004
- Guest Lecturer, Writing and Editing for Print and Online Publishing, May
27, 2004
- Guest Lecturer, News Media Writing and Editing, Convergence, April
29, 2004
- Guest Lecturer, Women and News course, Women and the Web, April
20, 2004
- Taught Going Online at Interscholastic League Press Conference,
April 17, 2004
- ASNE High School Journalism Institute, Web Design Presentation, Summer
2001-2004
- Taught Macromedia Flash courses at National Press Photographers Association
Conference, February 2001
- Taught Macromedia Flash course at Southwest Texas State University, April
7, 2001
- Organized Symposium
in Online Journalism, Spring 2001
- Kappa Tau Alpha Inductee, national honor society in Journalism and Mass
Communication, Spring 2000
- Proficient in computer applications including HTML, Dreamweaver,
Flash, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Premiere. Experience using and teaching PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and Java Language Programming.