CAROLE F. MEYERS

cmeyers@emory.edu
http://www.carolemeyers.com/

EXPERIENCE

Director of Academic Computing for Emory College, November 2000-present

• Provide direction to the College Administration on trends in information technology, including advanced networking, mobile computing, purchasing trends, classroom audio-visual technologies, the web, and faculty use of IT.

• Conceptualize computing environment for College faculty and staff and work to make that environment a reality.
  

• Coordinate overall IT training programs for faculty, including the Emory College Online program:
  http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ECO/

• Act as technology advisor to all College construction projects, including networking infrastructure.

• Conduct annual desktop replacement for primary faculty/staff machines and computer classrooms (350 machines). Negotiate with vendors on pricing.

• Manage the College's overall web presence, including overseeing an initiative to redo all College departmental sites. Analyze web statistics to prioritize allocation of web design resources. See:
  http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/

• Editor of the Quadrangle, the College's newsletter.

• Committee work: Classroom Planning Group (Co-chair), Executive Committee for Information Resources and Technology (College representative), Information Technology Advisory Committee (College representative)

Academic Technology Coordinator for Emory College, Emory University, October 1999-November 2000

• Strategize with faculty and college staff on directions for academic technology within the College.

• Oversee desktop replacement process of 200 computers per year for College faculty.

• Consult on classroom design for renovated and new buildings. Work with faculty to ascertain their needs. Help coordinate renovations and installations with facilities and audio-visual personnel.

• Committee work: Classroom Planning Group (Co-Chair), Information Technology Architecture Group (College representative), Information Technology Advisory Group (College Representative), Distance Learning Committee

Educational Analyst in the Humanities, Emory University, July 1997-October 1999

• Assist humanities faculty in all aspects of using technology in teaching and research. Technologies include digital video and audio, telephony- and IP-based videoconferencing, file servers, LearnLink and other conferencing applications, web-based courseware like WebCT and Blackboard, and general web-related technologies.

• Help faculty incorporate technology into particular classes. Provide assistance with designing technology-based assignments and syllabi. Lecture on Internet and Web history and culture. Teach HTML and image editing.

• Help faculty to conceptualize and write proposals to the Instructional Computing Development Fund. Manage the grant once funded. Act as liaison to other ITD personnel to complete the grant's goals. Research and purchase hardware and software.

• Committee work: Emory University Architecture Standards Team, 1997-1999 (local support/ desktop representative); White Hall Classroom Renovation Committee, 1998-1999 (faculty liaison; presentation technology specialist); Language Center Committee, 1999 (computer-assisted instruction specialist).

• Coordinated the Culpeper/CTC summer training program which trains faculty in web-based technologies. See: http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/CULPEPER/

• Manage the Foreign Language Computing Lab. Survey faculty on software and hardware needs. Purchase appropriate software and hardware. Coordinate lab hours and staffing. Train staff.

• Act as liaison to the Emory Center for Interactive Teaching (ECIT). Coordinate undergraduate and graduate classes using ECIT including those in Arabic, Broadcast Journalism, Chemistry, Roman History, Public Scholarship, and Visual Culture. See: http://wcw.emory.edu/ECIT/

• Survey faculty on their classroom needs both general and technological. Work with Media Services personnel to provide audio/visual and computer presentation capabilities in classrooms. Help strategize upgrades to classroom technologies.

• Coordinate with library staff to provide faculty with access to on-line research tools. With library selectors and reference librarians, provide hands-on training (both individual and group) to faculty and graduate students on on-line databases and EndNote.

Local Support, Emory University, November 1996-July 1997

• Performed desktop technical support to faculty and staff. Installed appropriate hardware and software for Macintosh and Windows computers. Provided assistance with learning software. Ordered hardware and software. Primary support for the Journalism lab/classroom.

Co-Technical Director and Webmaster, The Virtual Prometheus Unplugged? Romanticisms Past and Future, Emory University, 1995-1996

• Co-directed the cyber-companion to a live conference held at Emory University in April, 1996. The virtual conference met during the next month in the EmoryMOO and used a new program, Juggler, which provides a Web/MOO interface.

• Authored and maintained the conference Web site, which contained over 120 pages. Administered Web server. See: http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu

• Tested Juggler for Macintosh and Windows; wrote on-line and text help for Juggler.

Brittain Fellow in Writing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994-1996

• Designed from ground-up technical communications class on authoring for the Web.

• Used Internet technologies to develop a workshop class format, increasing students' responsibility for their own learning.

Instructor, Emory University, 1992

• Designed and taught a freshman writing course, "The Social Implications of Science," that used a networked computer lab to help students generate ideas, draft and revise papers, and review others' work.

EDUCATION

Emory University, Atlanta, GA 1989-1997
M.A., English, 1992
Ph.D., English, Certificate in Women's Studies, 1997

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 1984-1988
B.A., English, magna cum laude, 1988
Management Studies Certificate, Art History Minor
Highest Distinction and Honors

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