In Fall 2007, I will be adjunct teaching at Florida
State University, with courses of Photo I, Advanced Photography: Studio Lighting, and Web Design I. Then in Spring 2008, I travel to Italy to teach in the FSU International Program in Florence — having received the Art Department's Florence Teaching Award. As
a graduate teaching assistant at Florida
State, with assistantships for both my
second and third years, I taught Photographic and Digital
Imagemaking and Web Design I (click here to
view the course website I developed for this class). Additionally,
I taught in China during the summers of 2006 and 2007, with the EnviroChina
collaborative graphic design program at Taiyuan Normal University in 2006
and courses in Photographic Composition and Advertising Photography at Taiyuan
Normal University and Shanxi University in 2007. There are many photos and
artworks by my students and me shared on my own Flickr
account, as well as some of my photographs from the trip in my Portfolio.
Before entering graduate school, I taught classes in Studio Lighting; Photographic Composition; and Matting, Mounting, and Framing at local North Carolina arts institutions (The ArtsCenter in Carrboro and the Durham Arts Council), with the first two courses part of a Making a Living in Photography certificate program through Durham Technical Community College. I have also worked with photo club students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and area high school and junior high school students of Chapel Hill and Orange County, North Carolina.
In additional teaching experience, I was a Cub Scout leader for four years, a Youth Leadership Program mentor for one year, and a Photography Merit Badge instructor to the Boy Scouts.
(photo by Shi Xiao Bo, from my class at Taiyuan Normal University in China)