Projects

• In the news
  • Research Excellence Award
  • VIrtual Speaker Series - Exploring social justice through digital literacies
• Major Grants - Lead
  • SSHRC Insight Grant - $137,287 (2012-2015): Adolescents, identity and digital literacy
  • Early Researcher’s Award - $150,000 (2011-2014) - Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation - Fostering Globally and Culturally Sensitive Adolescents: Social Action Through Digital Literacy
  • SSHRC PDG Grant - $38,062 (2012-2013) - Performing digital literacies research
  • SSHRC Standard Grant - $56,915 (2007-2010): Students, Poetry, and New Media
• Major Grants - Co-applicant
  • SSHRC Standard Grant - $95,000 (2008-2011): Students as Performance Mathematicians
• Major Grants - Collaborator
• ITST SSHRC Grant - $48,456 (2007-2009): Video-Based Case Studies
• Teaching Language and Literacy, K-6 - freely accessible e-book: ... latest additions ...
  • Quality Literature by Cornelia Hoogland, University of Western Ontario
  • Boys and Literacy by Chris Greig, University of Windsor
  • Struggling Readers by Lori Scott
  • Reading Process by Lynn Marsden
  • Grade 1 Digital Story Telling by Diana Battaglia
  • Grade 2 Media Literacy by Lauren Robb
  • Grade 6 Writing Process by Alycia Pindar
• Other Awards
  • UOIT Teacher Innovation Fund (2007)
  • UOIT Student Training Assistantships in Research (2007)
  • SSHRC Graduate Fellowship (2006)
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2005, 2006)
  • UWO Graduate Thesis Research Award (2006)
  • John Dearness Memorial Graduate Award (2006)
  • UWO University Students’ Council Teaching Award (2005-2006)
• Other Projects
  • Wiki-ed Poetry: Poets in Discussion, Poets in Practice
  • Graphic Novels: Reading, Writing and Representing Adolescence
  • Children's Discourse Around Webkinz
  • Critical Literacy Through Picture Books and Digital Storytelling
  • “Where We’re From”: An Examination of the Literacy Stories of PJ Preservice Teachers
  • Online Mentoring with Tanzania
  • “You’ve got to read this book!”: Mentoring Struggling Readers Online
  • On Poetry Project

About me

CV

• CV - March 2013

2006-Present

• Associate Professor, UOIT (tenured in 2011)

2003-2006

• PhD from the University of Western Ontario (2006)

Previously

• Elementary teacher (Thames Valley District School Board)
• Secondary school language arts, drama, history teacher and assistant head of English, (Durham District School Board)