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As my final year of grad school rounds the turn toward the final mad key-pounding writing dash toward the finish line, I thought I should, at least briefly, talk about what\u2019s next:<\/p>\n
I could not be more excited to share with readers that in the Fall I will be joining the English Department faculty at Colorado State University as an Assistant Professor. Though I still struggle with the fact that I will not be working in a high school campus every day, I feel confident that the research and teaching I\u2019ve been involved in now can continue to impact the lives of young people. I am extremely grateful for the continued warmth and support I\u2019ve received from the school and my soon-to-be colleagues as I ask incessant n00b<\/a>\u00a0questions.<\/p>\n I also struggle with the concept of living in snow. But after a brief spending spree of all things North Face<\/a>, I\u2019m at least warming up to it.<\/p>\n In terms of what this means as far as my role and that of this blog, I don\u2019t see things really changing: my work as a teacher, researcher and briefly as someone working in educational policy<\/a> has focused on digital literacies, educational equity, and improving the learning environments for our students. I intend to continue working in these areas. But maybe doing so while at least a little bit less tired than this whole teaching\/grad-student schedule<\/a> has been keeping me for the past four years.<\/p>\n Did I mention I\u2019m really <\/em>excited about this? I plan to share more of the research I\u2019ll be doing in the coming months, the classes I\u2019m taking, and the continual process of adapting to being in a land-locked state. (Any advice about any of this is, of course, welcomed.)<\/p>\n In light of it being Digital Learning Day-eve<\/a>, I should note that I\u2019m excited about working with Figment<\/a> in the coming weeks to collaborate on syllabus development for one of the first courses I will be teaching at Colorado State. More info on that to come soon. (And I would head to Digital Is<\/a>, as always, for all things great and related to Digital Learning Day.)<\/p>\n Lots of DML 2012<\/a> updates to come. It\u2019s gonna be a good one!<\/p>\n Also, if you ever wanted to work for the U.S. Department of Education, applications for 2012-2013 Teaching Ambassador Fellows can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\nTell people this is awesome:<\/h3>