Samantha Earp
Email: ssearp@duke.edu
Phone: 919-660-5945
Fax: 919-668-2578
Physical location: 033 Bostock Library
Mailing address:
Box 90198
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Head, Instructional Media & Language Technology Services
Responsibilities
Samantha plans and implements instructional media support for Duke faculty, including the Instructional Technology lab and the digital materials creation supported in that facility. She also leads instructional technology efforts in the foreign languages and ESL, including supervision of language lab facilities, management of faculty projects, development of workshops and strategic planning. Samantha manages IMLTS staff, participates in CIT's strategic and long-range planning efforts and coordinates with managers of other campus IT services to develop instructional media service models. She is currently CIT's Project Manager for the Duke Digital Initiative. Samantha came to Duke in 2000.
Background
Samantha came to CIT from UNC-Charlotte, where she was a lecturer and director of the Language Resource Center. She has taught French and ESL/EFL in the U.S and in France, and is a national workshop leader for the ACTFL/Houghton Mifflin Teach with Technology professional development series. She holds the B.A. in French from Berea College and the M.A. in French Linguistics from Indiana University, where she completed further Ph.D. coursework in French linguistics and instructional systems technology. Samantha is the Consulting Services coordinator for the International Association for Language Learning Technology, and is also a former editor-in-chief of that organization's Journal of Language Learning Technology.
Selected publications
Lynne O’Brien, Amy Campbell and Samantha Earp, "CMS Implementation as a Catalyst for Curricular Change," invited chapter in Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy, edited by Patricia McGee et. al., Idea Group Publishing, Inc., 2005.
Joan Clifford, Samantha Earp, and Deb Reisinger. "Course Management Systems and Foreign Language Curricula: The Case of Blackboard at Duke University," chapter in Teaching with Technology, edited by Lara Lomicka and Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz, Thompson Heinle, 2004.
Selected presentations / workshops
Implementing an iPod program for Language Learning (half day workshop); Strategic Planning for Language Technology Support in a Ubiquitous Media World (half day workshop); International Association for Language Learning Technology (Medford, MA), June 2007.
Assessment-Driven Models for Implementation and Adoption of Emerging Technologies, UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference (Raleigh, NC), March 2007. (with Yvonne Belanger, CIT)
Course management systems: Tools for Creating Community. Houghton Mifflin World Language Forum. Dallas, TX and Boston, MA, March 2007.
Podcasting for Teaching and Learning, Podcast Academy V, Duke University, February 2007.
Keynote address, East Carolina University iPod Institute, Greenville, NC, January 2007.
American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages/Houghton Mifflin Teach with Technology Professional Development Workshop, Nashville, TN, November 2006.
Duke Digital Initiative presentation, UNC-Chapel Hill Scholarly Communications Group, November 2006.
Transitioning Academic Technologies from Experimentation to Institutional Support, EDUCAUSE National Conference, Dallas, TX, October 2006. (with Yvonne Belanger and Lynne O'Brien, CIT)
iTuning Academe: New Models of Cooperation and Publication in Language Technology, Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, May 2006. (With Andrew Ross, Brown University).
CMS Implementation as a Catalyst for Curricular Change, Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Baltimore, MD, January 2003. (With Amy Campbell and Lynne O’Brien, CIT).
Best Practices for using Blackboard Assessment Tools, Blackboard Users' Conference, Washington, DC, November 2000.
