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Welcome! I'm glad you took the time to stop by and visit. This website provides information about me -- Danilo M. Baylen, a Tenured Full Professor of Instructional Technology in the Department of Educational Technology and Foundations at University of West Georgia.

Through the years I lived in places beyond the borders of my native country, worked in different jobs, and met many and diverse individuals. The places were memorable, the jobs helped me achieved personal goals, and several individuals mentored me to pursue and achieve my personal and professional dreams, and got to know myself better.

So this web space provides a wealth of information about who I am, where I come from, and how I started my career in instructional design, faculty development, curriculum development, and information services.

This site is composed of clusters of web pages with information on things I learned to activities that interested me. I also included several links to my academic writings and presentations as well as creative endeavors.

Click on the hyperlinked texts below to navigate around this website. Again, welcome and feel free to explore. If you have a question, please email me at dbaylen@westga.edu Again, thanks for visiting and hope to cross paths with you in the near future.


What's New for 2013-2014 . . .

Latest News
Completed a master's degree in library and information studies at the University of Alabama. Graduation will be this August 2013. Funding for the last two years from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as part of Project ALFA (Access Libraries for All) grant. Click here for more information.

Awards & Grants
Awarded funding for a student research assistant project titled -- Analyzing archived digital texts to support the design of interactive and collaborative online educational experiences -- through the University of West Georgia Foundation.

Awarded funding for a STEM project titled -- Active, Creative, and Engaging Strategies for Improving Science Teaching and Resources Using LEGOs and Technology -- through the University of West Georgia Institutional STEM (UWise) mini-grant program.

Selected as one of the six ambassadors for the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival at The University of Southern Mississippi this April 2013.
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Continuing and Recent Past Leadership Positions
Elected as President-Elect (2013-2014), International Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) at its annual election. AECT is "a professional association of thousands of educators whose activities are directed toward improving instruction through technology." Click here for more information.

Also, elected as Chair of the Southern Regional Faculty and Instructional Development Consortium (SRFIDC) governing body for a three-year term (2013-2016) at its annual sharing conference last March in Jacksonville, Florida. Click here for more information.

 
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Continuing Board of Director (2010-2013) and completed a two-year service as Chair, Awards Committee (2010-2012) for the International Visual Literacy Association.

Appointed as Associate Editor for the 2013 Selected Readings of the International Visual Literacy Association.


Service to Current Institution and Professional Community
Elected to represent the College as a member of the Strategic Planning Standing Committee, Faculty Senate (2013-2014).

Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Baylen, D. M. (2013). Rediscovering Filipino children’s literature: Lola Basyang and me. In J. C. Naidoo & S. Park (Eds.), Diversity in youth literature: Opening doors through reading. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.

Baylen, D. M., Santiago, R., & Nakayama, M. (2011). Collaborating in virtual spaces: GoogleDocs, group work, and online learning. In C. Crawford et al (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education international conference, 22nd, Nashville, TN. Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/36247.

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Baylen, D. M., Hancock, M., Mullen, C. M., & Coleman, M. A. (2010). Preparing faculty for a learning management transition. In Y. Kats (Ed.), Learning management systems Technologies and software solutions for online teaching: Tools and applications (pp. 105-119). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.


Fall 2013 Scheduled Presentations
Presentation for the 2013 International Board on Books for Young People Regional Conference, St. Louis, Missouri
>>> “Masaya, maganda at mahiwaga”: Developing an Asian children's book collection (Concurrent)

Presentation for the 2013 Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Conference, Anaheim, California
>>> International students and faculty job searches: Stories, struggles, and strategies (Concurrent)
>>> International faculty on tenure-track: First-year experience, tenure and promotion (Concurrent)
>>> Deconstructing a Wiki Design Project: Conversations about integration, interactivity, and immersion (Roundtable)

Presentation for the 2013 Professional and Organizational Development Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
>>> Evaluating the quality of massive open online courses: Is there room for improvement? (Roundtable)
>>> Designing online discussions to support student engagement and deep learning (Roundtable)

Spring/Summer 2013 Scheduled Presentation
Presentation at the 2013 University of Alabama System Scholars Institute, Huntsville, Alabama
>>> Texts to Visuals: Imagining Technology for Creative Learning (Concurrent)

Presentation for the 2013 Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
>>> Accressing Archives for Users with Visible and Invisible Disabilities (Poster)

 

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A Body of Evidence:
Conversations from
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A documentary of course design & development experiences involving integration of active, collaborative & problem-based learning in an undergraduate anatomy & physiology curriculum at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Elementary Education Degree Program ePortfolio

An example of a graduate portfolio completed for a master's degree program in elementary education.

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Updated last May 9, 2013