Present Address
Technology Enhanced Learning & Research (TELR)
Office of the CIO
The Ohio State University
Baker Systems, 1971 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1339
Phone: (614) 292-5901
Fax: (614) 292-7081
E-mail: getis.1@osu.edu
Web: http://telr.ohio-state.edu/
Education
University of Michigan, Ph.D. 1994
University of Michigan, M.A. 1989
Oberlin College, A.B. 1987
Books
The Juvenile Court and the Progressives, University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Working Class Life in Detroit, 1900-1930 with Kevin Boyle. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997.
Articles
"The Digital Union, The Ohio State University," with Catherine Gynn and Susan Metros in Spaces that Enable Learning, Educause e-book, forthcoming.
"New Partnerships: Engaging Undergraduates in Research Through Technology" with Catherine Gynn and Susan Metros, Educause Center for Applied Research, Research Bulletin, Vol. 2006, Issue 1(January 2006).
"Technology as the Catalyst: Research on Research at the Ohio State University" with Catherine Gynn, in EdMedia Proceedings 2005.
Chapters on Urban Geography and Political Geography in Introduction to Geography, 10/e, 11/e. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005, 2007.
"The Standards Connector: Designing an Online Resource for Teaching the Massachusetts History and Social Studies Curriculum Framework" with Robert W. Maloy, in CITE: Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, vol. 2, issue 3.
"Delinquency and Hooliganism," in History of Childhood, edited by Paula S. Fass. New York: Macmillan, 2004.
"Experts and Juvenile Delinquency, 1900-1935," in Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Joe Austin and Michael Willard. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
"History of Child Care in the United States Before 1950" with Maris Vinovskis, in Child Care in Context, edited by M.E. Lamb, K. J. Sternberg, C. P. Hwang, A. Broberg. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992.
Major Instructional Technology Projects
Interactive activities for Introduction to Geography, 10/e. A series of student-oriented interactive activities intended to help users understand the concepts presented in the textbook. Designer.
The Goody Parsons Witchcraft Trial: A Journey to Seventeenth Century
Northampton. A fascinating witchcraft case is the basis for this website,
created in partnership with Historic Northampton. The on-going project will
support teachers in Northampton in covering many aspects of colonial life on
the English frontier and accompany a museum exhibit of the same name. Principal
programmer, curriculum consultant, project manager.
http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/parsons/
Opening Windows on the Past: An Elementary Approach to Amherst History.
Five websites built by elementary school classes in Amherst, MA. Each class
chose a different historic building, did research facilitated by CCBIT, and
built a website about the building. Acted as liaison between classes, technology
coordinators, archives, historic museum; procured primary documents for class
use; taught each class how to build a website.
http://www.arps.org/amhersthistory/
The Virtual Reference Room. A website built in partnership with the
University of Massachusetts School of Education that links excellent educational
resources available on the internet to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks.
Includes The Standards Connector. Principal programmer, evaluator of websites;
coordinate work of graduate students.
http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/vrroom/
American Centuries: The View from New England to support the teaching
of K-12 history and social stud-ies using primary documents from the Pocumtuck
Valley Memorial Association and partnering with the Frontier Regional School
System, Deerfield, MA. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the Massachusetts Department of Education, Bell Atlantic and others. Consultant,
constructed K-12 curriculum webpages and activities.
http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/
New Approaches to History: Lizzie Borden. Innovative website used
in a seminar course in History at UMass/Amherst and as a distance learning resource
by the History Department at UMass/Dartmouth. Funded by UMass and Five Colleges,
Inc. Manage website, constructed K-12 curriculum applications.
http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/lizzie/
Conferences
"Technology as the Catalyst: Research on Research at Ohio State University," EdMedia World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, June 2005, Montreal, Quebec.
"Research on Research," National Conference on Undergraduate Research, April 2005, Lexington, Virginia.
Facilitator, "Electronic Classrooms of Tomorrow," Electronic Classrooms of Tomorrow Conference, March 2005, Columbus, Ohio.
Workshop Presenter, "Project Management in an Academic Setting," Ohio Commons for Digital Education Conference, March 2004, Columbus, Ohio
Facilitator, "Techforum," October 2003, Madison, Wisconsin.
Facilitator, "Learning Object Working Group," NLII, October 2003, Columbus, Ohio.
"Exciting Students about History," Innovations in Collaboration Conference, June 2003, Alexandria, Virginia.
"Must the Thrill be Gone? Technology and Teaching in a Standards-Based Environment," National Teacher Training Institute, WGBY Public Television, March 2002, Springfield, Mass.
"Exciting Students about History," American Association for History and Computing, March 2002, Nashville, Tenn.
"Introducing the Virtual Reference Room," Massachusetts Computer Using Educators Conference, November 2001, Sturbridge, Mass.
"Using Technology to Support Teacher Education and Curriculum Development," with Robert Maloy, Teacher Education: Whose Responsibility is it? October 2001, Worcester, Mass.
"Teaching the Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Using and Annotated On-line Database," with Robert Maloy, Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies, March 2001, Boston, Mass.
"Engaging Students in Historical Investigations," with David Hart, Massachusetts Computer Using Educators Conference, May 2000, Sturbridge, Mass.
"Understanding the Unadjusted: Sociology, Psychology, and Juvenile Delinquency in Progressive Era Chicago," Organization of American Historians Meetings, April 1995, Washington, D.C.
"Beyond Municipal Housekeeping: Club Women, Politics, and Social Science in Chicago during the Progressive Era," American Historical Association Meetings, Jan. 1995, Chicago, Illinois.
" Doing the Work of Government: The Chicago Woman's Club and Progressive Reform," Social Science History Association Meetings, Nov. 1993, Baltimore, Maryland.
"'When the Home is Right, the City is Right:' Academics and Reformers in Chicago, 1890-1930," Social Science History Association Meetings, Nov. 1992, Chicago, Illinois.
"Peggy Sue Got Pregnant: Teenage Sexuality and Pregnancy in Popular Literature of the 1950s," Social Science History Association Meetings, Oct. 1990, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Employment
Special Projects Manager, Technology Enhancing Learning and Research, Ohio State University, 2005-present.
Instructional Designer, Technology Enhancing Learning and Research, Ohio State University, 2002-2005.
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Computer-Based Instructional Technology, University of Massachusetts, 1999-2002.
Consultant, Turns of the Centuries Project, Center for Computer-Based Instructional Technology, University of Massachusetts, 1999.
Mount Holyoke College, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 1997. The U.S. since 1945.
Western New England College, Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences, 1996, 1997. The U.S. in Vietnam, Modern American History, 1945-present.
Keene State College, Adjunct Professor of History, 1995. The U.S. to 1877.
University of Michigan, Rackham School of Graduate Studies Research Partnership with Terrence McDonald, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan, 1991-1992.
University of Michigan, Teaching Assistant, 1988-1990. The U.S. since 1865.
Research Associate, Ford Corporate History Project, 1988-1989.
Intern at The Journal of American History, Bloomington, Indiana, January 1986.