Projects
In the news
- 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
- Major Grants - Collaborator
- 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
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)