Dr. Arola will discuss how her own teaching portfolio has evolved since she put her first syllabus online in Spring of 2000. Through sharing her own successes and missteps, and asking participants to explore a sampling of teaching portfolios, this workshop/lecture will engage participants with best practices for cultivating an online teaching identity.

Bio:
Kristin Arola is an Associate Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department at Michigan State University and an affiliate faculty in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program. Arola’s research and teaching focus on the intersections between American Indian rhetoric, multimodal pedagogy, and digital rhetoric. Along with numerous essays and book chapters, she is the co-author of Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects, and the co-editor of CrossTalk in Comp Theory and Composing(Media) = Composing(Embodiment).