Dr. Linda Tate

P.O. Box 21391, Boulder, CO 80308

linda@tatecommunications.com
www.tatecommunications.com 

 

 

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT · 2001-present
Project writer and/or contributing writer for corporate and nonprofit organizations, including:
        ·       Action for Healthy Kids
        ·       Bryan Bowen Architects
      ·     Cohousing Association of the United States
        ·       Cross-Curricular Connections
        ·       Fuel Up to Play 60
        ·       Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge
        ·     Houston Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools
        ·     MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom
        ·     MMS Education
        ·     National Council of Teachers of English
        ·       National Dairy Council
        ·     ReCharge! Energizing After-school
      ·     Wonderland Hill Development Company
 

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER, Denver, CO · 2006-2009

Lecturer: University Writing Program

·         Served on inaugural faculty for nationally recognized writing program (awarded the Certificate of Excellence by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the higher education branch of the National Council of Teachers of English)

·         Taught first-year writing courses, including Academic Writing, Academic Research, Advanced Writing Seminar, and Honors Writing (with service-learning component)

·         Utilized Blackboard (course management software)
 

SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY, Shepherdstown, WV · 1991-2006

Professor (tenured): Department of English

·         Taught wide variety of undergraduate courses in composition, technical communication, American literature, ethnic literature, and world literature

·         Taught graduate courses in American literature and technology integration in the humanities

·         Founded and directed Writing Center

·         Founded and directed Minor in Technical Communication

·         Co-founded and co-led Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable

·         Served on numerous technology and technology integration committees

·         Utilized WebCT (course management software), developed WebQuests and learning modules, developed collaborative websites with students

 

MARCOPOLO SEARCH ENGINE, CATALOGER · 2001-2006

• Cataloged online educational content for EDSITEment (National Endowment for the Humanities), Xpeditions (National Geographic Society), and ReadWriteThink (National Council of Teachers of English)

MARCOPOLO, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINER · 2001-2002

• Trained teachers, school and district personnel, and state Department of Education leaders (in over 20 states) on the integration of MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom materials into K-12 teaching in all disciplines

WORLDCOM FOUNDATION · 2000-2001

Program Officer: MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom

·        Oversaw Foundation partnerships with National Endowment for the Humanities, National Geographic Society, and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in their development of K-12 websites (EDSITEment, Xpeditions, and Illuminations, respectively)

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, Madison, WI · 1991

PhD English (minor: Computer Science and Curriculum & Instruction)

 

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS, St. Louis, MO · 1985

M.A. English

 

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS, St. Louis, MO · 1983

B.A. English (minor: Political Science; Certificate in Writing)

 

Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative, Ohio University Press · 2009

Family and cultural history told in a narrative form, Power in the Blood reconstructs the lives of my Cherokee/Appalachian ancestors.

 

Conversations with Lee Smith (editor), University Press of Mississippi · 2001

An edited volume of previously published interviews with Appalachian novelist Lee Smith, this book is part of Mississippi’s Literary Conversations series.

A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South, University of Georgia Press · 1994

The first book to provide a balanced, integrated discussion of white women writers’ and black women writers’ contributions to southern fiction, A Southern Weave of Women was named as a 1995 Choice Outstanding Academic Book and issued in paper as part of Georgia’s Brown Thrasher Series in 1996.

“Using the Interactive Whiteboard to Increase Retention, Attention, Participation, Interest, and Success in a Required General Education College Course.” SMARTer Kids Foundation. 2002.

 

Information about numerous other publications and conference presentations is available upon request.

 

 

WEST VIRGINIA PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR, Charleston, WV · 2003

Selected by the Faculty Merit Foundation as the outstanding professor in the state of West Virginia

 

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIP, Huntington, WV · 1998

Awarded a competitive fellowship at Marshall University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia

 

GRANT RECIPIENT, 1992-2006

Recipient of numerous grants and fellowships from organizations such as University of Denver (Faculty Research Fund and Service Learning Faculty Fellows Program), West Virginia Humanities Council (Summer Research Fellowship, 1992, 1997, 2003), SmartTechnologies (Research Grant), and Shepherd University (Alumni Association Research Grants)

 

 

Full curriculum vitae and references are available upon request.