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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
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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, 1997-2008.
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 Teaching
Writing in the Digital Age Website, a resource for composition teachers
using technology and based upon the work of students in Teaching Writing
in the Digital Age course, 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.
2007-2009, Member of the National Writing Project Technology Liaison
Leadership Team.
2000-2004, Chair of the Christian Brothers College High School Reading
Committee, preparing professional development for teachers in reading
across the curriculum.
2007-Present, Chair of the Christian Brothers College High School Writing
Committee, preparing professional development for teachers in writing
across the curriculum.
Publishing and Special Honors
| Presented and Published at the 1992 Computers and
Writing Conference at IUPUI |
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"A
Natural Order and Without Breaks': Making Hypertext" |
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| Presented and Published at the 1993 Computers and
Writing Conference at University of Michigan/Ann Arbor |
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"Less
is More: The One-Computer Classroom Writing Environment" |
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| Presented and Published at the 1994 Computers and
Writing Conference at University of Missouri/ Columbia |
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"Epistemic
Conversations" |
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| Presented at a Poster Session at the 1994 National
Convention of the NCTE at Orlando |
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"Socratic Dialogue in Hypertext" |
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| 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 |
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"Epistemic Conversations: Creating Socratic Dialogue in Hypertext" |
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| Presented a Poster Session at the 1995 Computers and
Writing Conference at University of Texas at El Paso/ El Paso |
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"What Kind of Composition Is This?: Creating Socratic Dialogue
in Hypertext" |
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| Presented at a Poster Session at the 1995 National
Convention of the NCTE at San Diego |
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"Socratic Dialogue in Hypertext" |
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| 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) |
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"Writing Next Year's Textbook" |
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| 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 |
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"Less Is More: The One Computer Classroom Environment"
and
"Implications of the Research Paper in the Computer Age" |
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| 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) |
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"Electronic Assessment: Creating and Evaluating The Hypermedia
Research Paper" |
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| 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 |
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"Less Is More: The One Computer Classroom Environment" |
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| Presented at the 1997 Missouri Association of Teachers
of English Convention at Jefferson City. |
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"Writing Next Year's Textbook: Creating Hypertext for the
American Literature Classroom" |
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| Presented at the 1997 National Convention of the NCTE
at Detroit as part of a one day workshop. |
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"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" |
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| 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 |
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"Creating and Evaluating the Hypermedia Research Paper" |
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| 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 |
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"Less Is More: The One Computer Classroom Environment"
"Creating and Evaluating the Hypermedia Research Paper"
"Integrating the Internet into the Language Arts Curriculum" |
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| Presented and published at the 1998 Program for International
Pynchon Studies, Kings College, London, and the University of Antwerp. |
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"Mr. Pynchon's Historical Method: Using The Verifiable
To Create The Plausible?"
Gary Ryan, Thomas Gremaud, Kenn Thomas, and David Warren, Ph.D. |
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| Presented at the 1998 Multicultural Conference of
the Missouri Association of Teachers of English at St. Louis. |
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"Building a Multicultural Curriculum" |
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| Presented at the 1999 Midwest Education and Technology
Conference of the Cooperating School
District at the Transworld Dome in St. Louis. |
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"Integrating the Internet into the Language Arts Curriculum"
[Also, I created a computer dialogue session for presenters and
participants at the CyberCafe.] |
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| Presented at the 1999 Regional Convention of the NCTE
at Kansas City, |
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"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" |
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| Presented at the 1999 Fall into Technology Conference
of Fontbonne College at St. Louis, |
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"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail
to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum" |
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| Presented at the 1999 Fall Multicltural Conference
of the Greater St. Louis English Teachers Association at Metro High
School at St. Louis, |
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"A Multicultural Approach to Rediscovering Your American
Past" |
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| Presented at the 1999 National Convention of the NCTE
at Denver. |
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"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail
to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum" |
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| 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) |
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"Computers and Interactive Learning: Using computers in a
networked environment in the process of teaching writing" |
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| Presentation at the 2000 Midwest Education & Technology
Conference of the Cooperating School
District at the Transworld Dome in St. Louis. |
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"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" |
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| Presented at the 2000 Fall Multicltural Conference
of the Greater St. Louis English Teachers Association at Metro High
School at St. Louis, |
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"A Multicultural Approach to Rediscovering Your American
Past" |
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| Presented at the 2000 Missouri Association of Teachers
of English Fall Conference, Holiday Inn Select Executive Center,
Columbia, Missouri |
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"Technology and the One Computer Classroom" |
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| Presented at the 2000 Fall-into-Technology Conference
of Fontbonne College at St. Louis, |
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"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail
to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum" |
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| Presentation at the 2001 Midwest Education & Technology
Conference of the Cooperating School
District at the Regal Riverfront Hotel in St. Louis. |
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"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" |
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| Presented at the 2001 Missouri Association of Teachers
of English Spring Conference, Ramada Inn, Jefferson City, Missouri |
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"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. |
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| Presented at the 2001 Missouri Association of Teachers
of English Fall Conference at the Capitol Plaza Hotel, Jefferson
City, MO. |
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"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 |
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| Presentation at the 2002 Midwest Educational &
Technology Conference of the Cooperating
School District at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis. |
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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" |
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| 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) |
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"Reading The Television: Using the computer to create an
internet reading environment" |
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| Presentation at the 2002 Midwest Education & Technology
Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Millennium
Hotel in St. Louis. |
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"Creating an Online Anthology: using The Web as Reading and
Writing Text" |
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| Presented and Published at the 2002 Computers and
Writing Conference at Illinois State University, Urbana |
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"Re-creating American Studies: Using the internet and e-mail
to foster an interdisciplinary curriculum" |
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| Presentation at the 2003 Midwest Education & Technology
Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Millennium
Hotel in St. Louis. |
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"Reading The Television: Using the computer to create an
Internet reading environment" |
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| Presentation at the 2004 Midwest Education & Technology
Conference of the Cooperating School District at the Millennium
Hotel in St. Louis. |
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"Writing, Reading, and Teaching in the Totally Digital Classroom:
Practical Advice on Practice, Pedagogy, and Patience." |
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| 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) |
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"Writing, Reading, and Teaching in the Totally Digital Classroom:
Practical Advice on Practice, Pedagogy, and Patience." |
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| 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) |
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"Speaking in Multiple Tongues: Creating the Perfect Multimedia,
Collaborative Research Project" |
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| 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. |
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Presented:
"Speaking in Multiple Tongues: Creating the Perfect Multimedia,
Collaborative
Research Project" |
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| Presented, along with Susan Artkras and Matt Mahaffey,
at the National Writing Project National Conference at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, November 2005 |
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"The Digital Classroom: How Digital Literacy is Changing
the Nature of the Composition Classroom" |
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| 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) |
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"The Cinematizing of Composition: How Digital Literacy is
Changing the Nature of the Composition Classroom" |
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| Presented at the 2006 Morenet Technology Conference
at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach |
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"How Digital Literacy is Changing the Nature of the Composition
Classroom" |
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| Presented at the National Writing Project National
Conference at Nashville, Tennessee, November 2006. |
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"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"
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| 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) |
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“Digital Storytelling and Compositions—How Digital
Literacy is Changing the Teaching of Literacy” |
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| 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. |
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“The Digital Classroom and the Changing Nature of Composition.,”
February 24, 2007 |
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| 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. |
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| Presented, at the National Writing Project National
Conference at New York, New York, November 2007. |
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“Making Digital Compositions the New Language Arts Essay” |
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| 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) |
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“Making Digital Compositions the New Language Arts Essay”
February 15, 2008. |
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| Presented, with Danilo Baylen, at the annual Urban
Sites Network Conference, hosted by the Denver Writing Project,
Denver, Colorado, April 25-27, 2008. |
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“Multimedia Explorations in Urban Classrooms” |
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| Presented at the Midwest Education Technology Conference
(METC) in January 26-28, 2009 at the St. Charles Convention Center,
St. Charles, MO. |
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"Digital Storytelling and Compositions: The Perfect 21st
Century Paper" |
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| Presented 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) |
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“Digital Storytelling and Compositions: The Perfect 21st
Century Paper” |
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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. |
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| Facilitated and Organized The Technology Liaisons
Network Resource Development Retreat, at the at the Granlibakken
Conference Center and Resort, Tahoe City, CA July 6-12, |
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The focus of this retreat was to help scholars from National Writing
Project sites across the country develop meaningful resources about
successful writing project work with a technology focus |
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| Facilitated and Organized The
Introduction to Digital Compositions Workshop, at the University
of Missouri at St. Louis, July 28 and 29. |
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The focus of this workshop was to coach selected Gateway Writing
Project teachers through the writing process of creating digital
stories and compositions—from prewriting, writing, to presentation/publishing.
Mr. Ryan offered suggestions, both technical and pedagogical, on
how to use digital compositions to enhance what teachers were already
teaching in their traditional composition classrooms. |
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| Digital Is Conference: November 18, 2009 Mr. Ryan
was invited to spend three days at the Digital Is Conference, was
an invitational one-day conference supported by the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative.
Located at the Sheraton City Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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This conference was a full-day participatory conference and meeting
where NWP colleagues and practitioners involved in the Digital Media
and Learning Initiative were invited to come together to share work
and practice, and think across a variety of learning environments
about ecologies that support effective digital writing and learning
for students. |
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| Presented at the 2010 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) |
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“The High School Brain: Visual Media, Print Intelligence,
and the Literacy Revolution” |
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| Presented at the 2010 Urban Sites Network Conference,
hosted by The Oregon Writing Project at The Waterfront Marriott
Hotel, Portland, OR, April 24, 2010 |
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“Digital
Conversations: Writing, Voice and Authorship in the New Media” |
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