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Public speaking
Students build speeches through small decisions: audience, purpose, evidence, structure, delivery, and revision. Practice comes before performance.
Teaching
Learning is iterative, not merely linear.
I explain assignments from the position of a doer, not only an assigner. Students should understand the purpose of a task, see how its parts work, and practice before the stakes are high.
The design
Start with the final performance. Build backward.
Every major project begins with a clear answer to one question: what should a student be able to do by the end? I then break that performance into smaller practices that can be attempted, discussed, and improved.
The parts are not busywork. Each one returns later. Students use prior knowledge, receive timely feedback, and assemble the final work with fewer surprises.
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Media production
Technical choices are taught as communication choices. Camera settings, composition, editing, and sound matter because each changes what an audience can see and understand.
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Student media
Students publish for a real campus audience. Reporting, editing, ethics, deadlines, and distribution become connected parts of one public process.
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Media and society
Students connect ownership, platforms, culture, and institutions to the media they encounter every day. Theory earns its place by helping them notice something they could not see before.
Experience
Courses taught
My teaching spans oral communication, journalism, production, theory, media literacy, and capstone work.
01Public Speaking
02Media Production
03Student Media
04Media and Society
05News Reporting and Writing
06Theories of Media and Communication
07Introduction to Film Production
08Diversity in Media
09Digital Journalism
10Media, Design, and Communication Capstone
Student media
The Phoenix is a classroom with a public.
As faculty advisor to Marian University’s student media, I help students make editorial decisions, report campus news, develop multimedia skills, and publish work that matters to their community.
Visit The PhoenixSelected recognition
Dr. Raymond C. Craig Award in TeachingMarian University · 2023
Chancellor’s Graduate Teaching Assistant AwardThe University of Kansas · 2022
Outstanding Instructor AwardThe University of Kansas · 2022
Outstanding Graduate Teaching AssistantThe University of Kansas · 2021