Susan Manning
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Stout
140E Voc Rehab Bldg
Menomonie, WI 54751
Phone: (630) 897-8214
E-Mail: mannings@uwstout.edu
Susan Manning teaches Instructional Design for Online Learning.
Teaching is Susan Manning’s second career. Having worked as an administrator in higher education for nearly 13 years, she transitioned to teaching English as a Second Language ten years ago. From that experience, she was asked to investigate the possibility of training literacy volunteers online, which led to learning and teaching and flourishing in the online environment.
Susan currently splits her time among three distinct educational activities: teaching ESL, online faculty development, and parenting.
- In her ESL classrooms, technology is blended to enhance second language acquisition. She uses digital video and audio as well as web-based resources. In a family literacy program, Susan blends the technology resources from a K-5 school with parent/child language learning.
- In faculty development, Susan teaches courses in online learning, technology tools, the synchronous classroom and instructional design. She also delivers workshops on adapting curriculum for online delivery, podcasting and selecting the right technology tools. She has taught hundreds of faculty, mostly from the Midwest, but occasionally drawing from Saudi Arabia, Denmark and Russia.
- As a parent, Susan volunteers in her childrens’ K-5 school and advises teachers and staff on ways to integrate technology into classroom activities.
Susan has contributed to online conferences routinely for the past 4 years, A few of her presentations include Technology Integration at the Elementary School Level and The Smith School Project: 21st Century Classroom in Action and Podcast History: NCQTalk’s 1st Anniversary for the 2006 Illinois Online Conference, and The Portable Prof: Creating Podcasts to Enhance Learning featured presentation for the 2005 Teaching in the Community College online conference.
Susan is perhaps best recognized as one of the early voices in educational podcasting. Currently, Susan is co-host of the LearningTimes Green Room podcast that explores themes in learning and technology.
In 2001, Susan became certified in the University of Illinois’ Master Online Teacher program. Additionally, she holds a Doctorate in Adult Education from Ball State University (1991), a Masters in College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University (1983) and a Bachelors in Communications from Truman State University (1981).
Susan lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two daughters.
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