Time is a doctoral student in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric PhD program at Texas Tech University, currently researching orality in the digital age. Specifically, he is considering how we use digital oral/visual (largely non-textual) means of communication and how these methods and the purposes they serve are similar to primary orality, specifically in pre-literate Greece.

Time works as a technical writer with Go Daddy, where he creates documentation, user interface material, walkthrough guides, screen capture actioncasts, and other content for a number of the company’s Web applications. Additionally, Time serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Multimedia Writing and Technical Communication program at the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus. In this role, he has instructed in both classroom and online settings for over five years.

Time has published in Intercom Magazine and also co-authored with Doug Dangler & Ben McCorkle “Expanding Composition Audiences with Podcasting,” which appeared in the Spring 2007 Computers & Composition Online.

With his combination of education and industry experience in the fields of technical communication, elearning, education, Web content management, and technology, Time offers a unique perspective on communication in the digital age in general, in both the physical and online classrooms, and in the workplace. Additionally, Time is greatly interested in our current communication technologies and trends, particularly in what they suggest for the future of digital communication, education, and the ways we do and will move information.

Sessions:

New Media in the Workplace: Delivering Content & Communicating with Web 2.0 Technologies

The proposed presentation defines “new media,” considering what constitutes new media in our current age, any perceived benefits new media offers, and what it means to be “new” media. It then details an example of using new media in Help documentation presented to clients and goes on to discuss various means of communicating using new media within the workplace, such as IM, blogs, wikis, podcasting, and social networking as a way to share information and knowledge within departments and entre companies. Specifically, the presentation addresses the implications of such delivery methods and offers the most logical applications for such communication methods.

Using Web 2.0 in Education

Wikis, blogs, podcasts, and other social networking tools are taking the world of higher education by storm. How are faculty in higher education using various Web 2.0 technologies. More importantly, why are they incorporating different web-based technologies into their courses? Come join a discussion about how and why educators are using these technologies, how such use affects teaching and learning, and why it’s important to not overlook the value of applying these trends.