Projects

Here are some snippets of my work projects and my in-depth personal projects, tutorials, and blog.

My NEXT Award

NEXT

For the past few years, I saw the email come into my inbox calling applicants for the Newman Exploration Travel Fund (NEXT) supported by WashU Libraries, pondered what I…

Publishing Websites

fun

https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/github-pages.html

OLC Innovate 2024 Presentation

work

In April 2024, I got the chance to present some of my work from my Ed Tech fellowship from grad school at OLC in Denver, CO! Here are those slides if you’re interested. Feel…

From a PD(woo)F to Text Frequencies

fun

A brilliant grad school friend of mine recently asked if I knew anything about text extraction. From there she unknowingly opened a can of worms for me!

9-month-olds’ Word Processing and Home Language Environment

work

With Jill Lany and Abbie Thompson, I explored potential predictors of infants’ lexical processing efficiency. Stay tuned for our article, coming soon in 2023!

the eras touR

fun

Can I ask you a question? Have you ever wondered which of Taylor Swift’s songs are the most danceable? Which songs are saddest? Slowest? Lowest? Well, if the answer is no…

Conversation Starters in a Social Annotation Environment

work

Using NLP and machine learning methods, I’m exploring student and instructor comments on course materials annotated using Hypothes.is to determine the features of…

Understanding Patterns in Preschoolers’ Spellings

grad school

In my dissertation I am identifying patterns that drive spellings before children have learned to spell. For example, children tend to use letters that are more frequently…

Parameterized Reports for Department Use of Ed. Tech.

work

To evaluate student and faculty use of licensed technologies at Wash U, I used R Markdown to create a series of parameterized reports that provide engagement insights over…