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Gary Ryan

Department of Language Arts

Christian Brothers College High School

1850 De La Salle Drive,

St. Louis, MO 63141

(314) 985-6100 extension 4019

Work email: ryang@cbchs.org

Education:

Masters of Arts in English May 1992

Concentration in Composition

University of Missouri at St. Louis

Missouri State Teaching Certificate May 1982

University of Missouri at St. Louis

Bachelor of Arts in English May 1978

Southwest Missouri State University

Meramec Community College May 1973-1975

Concentration in English

Work Experience

Christian Brothers College High School Language Arts Teacher

St. Louis, Missouri September 1984 - Present

Teacher of American and British Literature and composition, American Studies, and Writing With Technology, Head Track coach (1985-1990).

Chair of the North Central Reading Committee for CBC High School

1999-Present

Rosary High School Language Arts Teacher

St. Louis Missouri September 1982-1984

"B" Team Soccer Coach

Head Track Coach Girls

UM-St. Louis

Adjunct Faculty 1996-Present

ENG/ED Writing with Technology

Technology Liaison for The Gateway Writing Project

Gary Ryan

Gary Ryan is a Language Arts teacher at Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis, MO where he teaches American Literature, Composition, and Writing with Technology. In 1992, he was named as a founding board member of the Gateway Writing Project, one of the sites for the National Writing Project. He is also the First Vice-President of the Greater St. Louis English Teachers Association. In 1995, he was named to the Executive Board of the NCTE's Assembly on Computers in English. In 1997, Mr. Ryan was named to the board of directors of the Missouri Association of Teachers of English. In 1998, Mr. Ryan was named to the Executive Board of the Action Research Collaborative. In 1998, Mr. Ryan was named to the Advisory Committee for the Midwest Education & Technology Conference. Also in 1999, Mr. Ryan was named the Technology Liaison of the Gateway Writing Project, one of the sites for the National Writing Project. Finally, in 2000, Mr. Co-authored a book, Contexts, Intertexts, & Hypertext, edited by Kip Strasma and Scott Lloyd DeWitt, and published by Hampton Press, Inc.

In 2007, Mr. Ryan was invited to spend three days at Johns Hopkins for the Teaching Writing in the 21st Century Conference, conversing with forty other computer and writing scholars, from Harvard, Berkeley, Bread Loaf and other prestigious institutions, on the emerging practices of technology-savvy K-12 literacy teachers. Also in 2007, Mr. Gary Ryan was named to The National Writing Project’s Technology Liaisons Leadership Team. The Leadership Team, made up of eight selected composition and technology scholars representing NWP sites across the country, has been asked to consider the impact technology is having on the teaching and learning of writing.

For much of the last 15 years, Mr. Ryan’s work has focused on the impact technology is having on the teaching and learning of writing. Mr. Ryan is particularly interested in developing criteria that will help meet the concerns teachers have for accountability, assessment, and professional development. Especially, since CBC has built a new campus, where all the students have laptops and the rooms are equipped with Smart Boards, he has been concentrating on how reading and writing is central to composing in this new digital landscape and exploring the impact of techno-literacies on the social and political dimensions in a cutting-edge technology rich learning environment. In the last decade, since creating the CBC American Studies program with Dr. James Dohle. At Christian Brothers College High, Mr. Ryan has also been the chair of the CBC Reading Committee (2000-2004) and presently the chair of the Writing Committee helping to institute an inquiry based, writing and reading curriculum across the disciplines.

Because of his work in curricular design, Mr. Ryan has been asked many times to serve on review teams for various high schools across the area as they go through their North Central accreditation, concentrating on critical thinking, writing, reading, and techno-literacy. For the Gateway Writing Project, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in creating credit courses and other professional development programs, along with maintaining the GWP website.

Professional Organizations

1995-1998 National Executive Board Member for the NCTE's Assembly on Computers in English

1992-Present: Founding Member of Master Teacher-Consultant Council of the Gateway Writing Project (in association of the National Writing Project)

1996-2002: Vice President of the Greater St. Louis English Teachers Association.

1997--1998 Program Co-Chair and Founder, along with Martha Bogart, of "Now What? We Have the Technology; Now How Do We Use It?," an annual conference on integrating technology into the composition classroom, hosted by the University of Missouri - St. Louis

1998-2002, member of the Executive Board of the Action Research Collaborative.

1998-2003, member of the Advisory Committee for the Metropolitan Educational Technology Conference.

1997-present, Technology Advisor to MATE - Missouri Association of Teachers of English

1999-present, Technology Liaison of the Gateway Writing Project

2007-Present, member of The National Writing Project’s Technology Liaisons Leadership Team.

PROJECTS/POSITIONS

Instigator, Co-founder, and writing consultant of Yardsale, the CBC high school student writing magazine, 1994-present.

Instigator, Editor, and Web manager of The Gateway Writing Project Website, a resource for composition teachers, 1995-present.

Instigator, Editor, and Web manager of The Greater St. Louis English Teacher's Association Website, a resource for composition teachers, 1997-present.

Instigator, Editor, and Web manager of The Missouri Association of Teachers of English Website, a resource for composition teachers, 1997-present.

Instigator, Editor, and Web manager of Reimagining American Studies:Website, a resource for students in Mr. Ryan's American Studies class at Christian Brothers College High School 1998-present.

Instigator, Editor, and Web manager of Writing With Technology Website, a resource for composition teachers using technology and based upon the work of students in Writing With Technology: Using New Technologies to Facilitate Reading and Writing in the Classroom, sponsored by the University of Missouri at St. Louis, 1996-present.

Program Chair for the "Now What? We Have the Technology; Now How Do We Use It?," an annual conference on integrating technology into the composition classroom, hosted by the University of Missouri - St. Louis, February, 1997 and1998.

Co-Author of the book, Contexts, Intertexts, & Hypertext, edited by Kip Strasma and Scott Lloyd DeWitt, published by Hampton Press, Inc. (1999).

ISBN 1-57273-214-8 (cl). ISBN 1-57273-215-6 (ppb)

1999-2004, chair of the North Central Reading Committee for Christian Brothers College High School.

2001-present, Technology Liaison for the Gateway Writing Project to the National Writing Project.

2007-Present, Member of the National Writing Project Technology Liaison Leadership Team.

2008-present, chair of the Reading Committee for Christian Brothers College High School.

Publishing and Special Honors

Presented and Published at the 1992 Computers and Writing Conference at IUPUI
	"A Natural Order and Without Breaks': Making Hypertext"

Presented and Published at the 1993 Computers and Writing Conference at University of Michigan/Ann Arbor
	"Less is More: The One-Computer Classroom Writing Environment"

Presented and Published at the 1994 Computers and Writing Conference at University of Missouri/ Columbia
	"Epistemic Conversations"

Presented at a Poster Session at the 1994 National Convention of the NCTE at Orlando
	"Socratic Dialogue in Hypertext"

Presented at the 1995 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English
	"Epistemic Conversations: Creating Socratic Dialogue in Hypertext"

Presented a Poster Session at the 1995 Computers and Writing Conference at University of Texas at El Paso/ El Paso
	"What Kind of Composition Is This?: Creating Socratic Dialogue in Hypertext"

Presented at a Poster Session at the 1995 National Convention of the NCTE at San Diego
	"Socratic Dialogue in Hypertext"

Presented at the 1996 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	"Writing Next Year's Textbook"

Presented at the 1997 "Now What? We Have the Technology; Now How Do We Use It?," an annual conference on integrating technology into the composition classroom, hosted by the University of Missouri - St. Louis
	"Less Is More: The One Computer Classroom Environment" and "Implications of the Research Paper in the Computer Age"

Presented at the 1997 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	"Electronic Assessment: Creating and Evaluating The Hypermedia Research Paper"

Presented at the 1997 Writing-Runs-Through-It Conference, McCluer High School, Florissant, MO. Sponsored by CSD and the Ferguson-Florissant School District; co-sponsored by Gateway Writing Project and GSLETA
	"Less Is More: The One Computer Classroom Environment"

Presented at the 1997 Missouri Association of Teachers of English Convention at Jefferson City.
	"Writing Next Year's Textbook: Creating Hypertext for the American Literature Classroom"

Presented at the 1997 National Convention of the NCTE at Detroit as part of a one day workshop.
	"W13 Computers and Interactive Learning Tools and Resources for Teaching English in a Computer Networked Environment" "Writing Next Year's Textbook: Creating Hypertext for the American Literature Classroom"

Presented at the 1998"Now What? We Have the Technology; Now How Do We Use It?," an annual conference on integrating technology into the composition classroom, hosted by the University of Missouri - St. Louis
	"Creating and Evaluating the Hypermedia Research Paper"

Presented at the 1998 Writing-Runs-Through-It Conference, McCluer High School, Florissant, MO. Sponsored by CSD and the Ferguson-Florissant School District; co-sponsored by Gateway Writing Project and GSLETA
	"Less Is More: The One Computer Classroom Environment" "Creating and Evaluating the Hypermedia Research Paper" "Integrating the Internet into the Language Arts Curriculum"

Presented and published at the 1998 Program for International Pynchon Studies, Kings College, London, and the University of Antwerp.
	"Mr. Pynchon's Historical Method: Using The Verifiable To Create The Plausible?" Gary Ryan, Thomas Gremaud, Kenn Thomas, and David Warren, Ph.D.

Presented at the 1998 Multicultural Conference of the Missouri Association of Teachers of English at St. Louis.
	"Building a Multicultural Curriculum"

Presented at the 1999 Midwest Education and Technology Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Transworld Dome in St. Louis.
	"Integrating the Internet into the Language Arts Curriculum" [Also, I created a computer dialogue session for presenters and participants at the CyberCafe.]

Presented at the 1999 Regional Convention of the NCTE at Kansas City,
	"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum" also, a one-day workshop entitled, "Using Computers and Interactive Learning Tools and Resources for Teaching English in a Computer Networked Environment"

Presented at the 1999 Fall into Technology Conference of Fontbonne College at St. Louis,
	"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum"

Presented at the 1999 Fall Multicltural Conference of the Greater St. Louis English Teachers Association at Metro High School at St. Louis,
	"A Multicultural Approach to Rediscovering Your American Past"

Presented at the 1999 National Convention of the NCTE at Denver.
	"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum"

Presented at the 2000 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	"Computers and Interactive Learning: Using computers in a networked environment in the process of teaching writing"

Presentation at the 2000 Midwest Education & Technology Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Transworld Dome in St. Louis.
	"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum" Pre-conference: "Computers and Interactive Learning: Tools and Resources For Teaching English in a Computer Networked Environment"

Presented at the 2000 Fall Multicltural Conference of the Greater St. Louis English Teachers Association at Metro High School at St. Louis,
	"A Multicultural Approach to Rediscovering Your American Past"

Presented at the 2000 Missouri Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference, Holiday Inn Select Executive Center, Columbia, Missouri
	"Technology and the One Computer Classroom"

Presented at the 2000 Fall-into-Technology Conference of Fontbonne College at St. Louis,
	"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum"

Presentation at the 2001 Midwest Education & Technology Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Regal Riverfront Hotel in St. Louis.
	"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum" Pre-conference: "Down the Rabbit Hole: Following Student Compositions Through Word Processing, Power-point, HTML, E-mail, HyperStudio, and other Psychedelic, Hypertextual Environments"

Presented at the 2001 Missouri Association of Teachers of English Spring Conference, Ramada Inn, Jefferson City, Missouri
	"Down the Rabbit Hole: Following Student Writing into Technology" A demonstration on strategies to promote student writing using email, multimedia, and the world-wide-web.

Presented at the 2001 Missouri Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference at the Capitol Plaza Hotel, Jefferson City, MO.
	"Did You Write This?": Using technology to fight plagiarism and to prompt your students to demonstrate intellectual engagement, experiment with ideas, or explore alternative scenarios in their writing

Presentation at the 2002 Midwest Educational & Technology Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis.
	Pre-conference Workshop: "Is Technology a Worm Hole?" See how technology can be used to bridge the gap from students to events, movements, groups and individuals who have shaped/are shaping American culture and history. "Sounds Lifted" or "How I Stopped Plagiarism and Helped My Students Create Authentic Texts"

Presented at the 2002 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	"Reading The Television: Using the computer to create an internet reading environment"

Presentation at the 2002 Midwest Education & Technology Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis.
	"Creating an Online Anthology: using The Web as Reading and Writing Text"

Presented and Published at the 2002 Computers and Writing Conference at Illinois State University, Urbana
	"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum"

Presentation at the 2003 Midwest Education & Technology Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis.
	"Reading The Television: Using the computer to create an Internet reading environment"

Presentation at the 2004 Midwest Education & Technology Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis.
	"Writing, Reading, and Teaching in the Totally Digital Classroom: Practical Advice on Practice, Pedagogy, and Patience."

Presented at the 2003 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	"Writing, Reading, and Teaching in the Totally Digital Classroom: Practical Advice on Practice, Pedagogy, and Patience."

Presented at the 2005 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	"Speaking in Multiple Tongues: Creating the Perfect Multimedia, Collaborative Research Project"

Program Chair for the "Building an Arch of Hope for Tomorrow: teachers to prepare their students for the literary challenges of today and the future" at the annual Urban Sites Network Conference, hosted by the Gateway Writing Project, University of Missouri - St. Louis, and Harris-Stowe University, April 30, 2005.
	Presented: "Speaking in Multiple Tongues: Creating the Perfect Multimedia, Collaborative Research Project"

Presented, along with Susan Artkras and Matt Mahaffey, at the National Writing Project National Conference at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, November 2005
	"The Digital Classroom: How Digital Literacy is Changing the Nature of the Composition Classroom"

Presented at the 2006 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	"The Cinematizing of Composition: How Digital Literacy is Changing the Nature of the Composition Classroom"

Presented at the 2006 Morenet Technology Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach
	"How Digital Literacy is Changing the Nature of the Composition Classroom"

Presented at the National Writing Project National Conference at Nashville, Tennessee, November 2006.
	"Writing in the Digital Age"-a workshop exploring the changing ideas of writing and literacy in the digital age and their significance for educators. Using case studies as a point of departure for discussion, participants wrote about, reflected upon, and discussed the implications of these changing ideas for classroom practice and the work of writing project sites. And with Susan Artkras, "The Digital Classroom and the Changing Nature of Composition"

Presented at the 2007 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	“Digital Storytelling and Compositions—How Digital Literacy is Changing the Teaching of Literacy”

Presented (Kenote) at the 2007 The Business Teachers Association Winter Meeting at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, as a keynote speaker for the SLABEA.
	“The Digital Classroom and the Changing Nature of Composition.,” February 24, 2007

Special Selection: June 12, 2007 Mr. Ryan was invited to spend three days at Johns Hopkins for the Teaching Writing in the 21st Century Conference, conversing with forty other computer and writing scholars from Harvard, Berkeley, Bread Loaf and other prestigious institutions, on the emerging practices of technology-savvy K-12 literacy teachers.

Presented, at the National Writing Project National Conference at New York, New York, November 2007.
	“Making Digital Compositions the New Language Arts Essay”

Presented, along with Dr. James Dohle, at the 2008 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	“Making Digital Compositions the New Language Arts Essay” February 15, 2008.

Presented, with Danilo Baylen, at the annual Urban Sites Network Conference, hosted by the Denver Writing Project, Denver, Colorado, April 25-27, 2008.
	“Multimedia Explorations in Urban Classrooms”

Will present at the Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC) in January 26-28, 2009 at the St. Charles Convention Center, St. Charles, MO.
	"Digital Storytelling and Compositions: The Perfect 21st Century Paper"

Will present at the 2009 Write-to-Learn Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach (Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English)
	“Digital Storytelling and Compositions: The Perfect 21st Century Paper”
	Session summary: Gary Ryan will show models of student work and discuss how digital storytelling and collaborative multimedia compositions are rapidly becoming the new Language Arts essay. Learn how to make contemporary literacy projects relevant to the teaching you’re already doing and to use technology to teach the habits of college writing.