CV - Resume

Sybil Ann Priebe 701-476-1368

1114 8^th Ave North

Fargo, ND 58102

Phone: 701-671-2346 (o) 701-476-1368 (h)

E-Mail: Sybil.Priebe@ndscs.edu/ihaveabug@yahoo.com

Website: https://sybilisticism.tripod.com/

Teaching Weblog: www.xanga.com/teacher47

Current Class Weblog: http://bisonblog.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu

Education

North Dakota State University: Fargo, ND.

M.A. in English Composition

Thesis: “Critical Thinking and Complex Writing in an Online Campus Community” directed by Professor Kevin Brooks, May, 2005.

North Dakota State University: Fargo, ND.

B.A., English Education, May, 1999.

Academic Awards

Graduate Teaching Fellowship at North Dakota State University, 2004-2005.

Technology Transfer Graduate Traineeship: Grant-based stipend to aid M.A. Thesis Research, 2003-2004.

Graduate Teaching Assistantship at North Dakota State University, 2001-2004.

Teaching Experience

North Dakota State College of Science: Wahpeton, ND, 2005- current.

Full-time instruction of the following classes: English 110 Composition and Technical Communications (English 105) – Fall 2005.

Aaker’s Business College: Fargo, ND, Winter & Spring Quarter 2005.

Foundations of English: Includes teaching basic academic writing skills as well as focusing on grammar and mechanics.

Professional Communications: Includes teaching technical and professional communication as well as the documents that connect to such communication such as: memos, letters, resumes, email, presentations, etc.

North Dakota State University: Fargo, ND, 2001-2005.

English 110 Composition: Includes courses with the following emphases (2 classes per fall semester)-

× “Creating a Toolkit for 21^st Century Literacy,” Fall 2002.

× A Social Expressivist approach in the using the book, The Call to Write (genre-based), Fall 2003/Fall 2004.

English 120 Composition: Includes courses with the following emphasis (2 classes per spring semester)-

× "Controversy, Self, and Society" using the book, everything’s an argument, Spring 2002.

× “everything’s a controversy” using the books, The Call to Write and The Giver, Spring 2004.

Teaching Experience, Con’t.

Northwest Technical College: Detroit Lakes, MN, Summer 2002.

English 110 Composition: Included teaching online reading material and having students use online research for papers and projects.

Battle Lake High School: Battle Lake, MN, 1999-2001.

High School English: Included advising the online school newspaper, teaching online research, using online reading material, and implementing hypertext as possible final format for paper and projects.

Research and Teaching Interests

× Genre-Based Writing Instruction

× Technology-Based Classrooms

× Weblogging

× Hypertext & Web Site building

× Technical and Professional Document/ Design

Publications and Presentations

“Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs.” Into The Blogosphere (http://www.intotheblogosphere.org

). Ed. Laura Gurak, et al. 2004.

“Blogging Our Way into a Pedagogy: How Weblogging Fulfills Critical Pedagogy’s Goals.” Great Plains Alliance in Computers and Writing Conference, North Dakota State University, April 2004.