Teaching

Guest lectures for the class CMPT 104: Fluency with Information Technology (Instructor: Brian Lin). Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, 2024–.

Instruction (with co-instructors on the Information Literacy Foundations team) in information literacy and library research skills to students in first-year English classes in the Department of English. Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, 2022–.

"Using Fedora Commons / Islandora". A week-long course co-taught with Craig Squires on the Fedora Commons and Islandora digital repository system at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2018, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 11–15 June 2018.

"Google Analytics: A Brief Overview". Instruction on the use of the Google Analytics web analytics service to MacEwan University Library staff at Spring Library PD Day 2018, MacEwan University Library, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, 11 May 2018.

"Using Fedora Commons / Islandora". A week-long course co-taught with Craig Squires on the Fedora Commons and Islandora digital repository system at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2017, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 12–16 June 2017.

"CWRCshop 2: Working in CWRC". A half-day workshop co-taught with Susan Brown, Mihaela Ilovan, and Jeffery Antoniuk at the Digital Textualities / Canadian Contexts conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 20 September 2016.

"CWRCshop 1: Intro to CWRC". A half-day workshop co-taught with Susan Brown, Mihaela Ilovan, and Jeffery Antoniuk at the Digital Textualities / Canadian Contexts conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 20 September 2016.

"Online Collaborative Scholarship: Principles and Practices (A CWRCShop)". A week-long course co-taught with Susan Brown, Karyn Huenemann, Mihaela Ilovan, and Jeffery Antoniuk at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2016, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 13–17 June 2016.

"CWRCShop". An all-day workshop co-taught with Susan Brown, Mihaela Ilovan, and Jeffery Antoniuk at DHSI@Congress at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 2 June 2016.

"CWRCShop". A two-day workshop co-taught with Susan Brown and Mihaela Ilovan at DHSI@Congress at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 30–31 May 2015.

"Online Collaborative Scholarship: Principles and Practices (A CWRCShop)". A week-long course co-taught with Susan Brown, Mihaela Ilovan, and Karyn Huenemann at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2014, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 2–6 June 2014.

Instruction (with co-instructors Susan Brown, Isobel Grundy, Mihaela Ilovan, Jana Smith Elford, and Jeffery Antoniuk) on the use of the CWRC (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory) repository, the Orlando textbase, and the Oxygen XML Editor, to graduate students in the Department of English and Film Studies. Department of English and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2014–2016.

Guest lectures for the class LIS 597: Advanced Scholarship and Research in LIS (Instructor: Tami Oliphant). School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2013–.

Guest lectures for the class PHIL 366: Computers and Culture (Instructor: John Simpson). Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2013–2015.

Graduate teaching assistant for the class MIT 1500: The Matter of Technology (Instructor: John Reed). Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 2010.

Graduate teaching assistant for the class MIT 1700: FYI: Information and Its Contexts (Instructors: Catherine Johnson, Paulette Rothbauer, and Ajit Pyati). Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 2008–2009.

Guest lectures for the class LIS 210: Critical Strategies for the Information Universe (Instructor: Tami Oliphant). School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2004.

"Introduction to Petroleum Engineering Resources". Instruction and training on petroleum engineering resources to Science and Technology Library staff at Spring Training Session, Cameron Library, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 29 April 2003.

Numerous instruction sessions for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering throughout the academic year. Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2002–2003.

Several province-wide presentations and training sessions for The Alberta Library (TAL) on TAL Online, a bibliographic search application developed using the Java-based OCLC SiteSearch suite of tools. Numerous public and academic libraries throughout Alberta, 2001–2002.

Guest lectures for the class LIS 505: Research Methods for Library and Information Studies (Instructor: Alvin Schrader). School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1999–2002.

Guest lectures for the class LIS 597: Seminar in Advanced Research Methods for Library and Information Studies (Instructor: Alvin Schrader). School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1999–2002.

Training of Bibliographic Services staff on the use of a bindery database application that I designed and developed to automate the bindery process at the University of Alberta Libraries. Cameron Library, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, December 1997.