Tim is a watchmaker and
a Community Mentor who has a PhD from Rutgers and has taught there and at the
University of Pittsburgh. He is the regular cartoonist for Written Communication
and Writing on the Edge. He has worked for several years as a Community Mentor
in the writing projects at the Community Literacy Center, and for the past three
years he has helped plan, coordinate, and mentor in the Hands
On Productions (HOP), working with teens making videos a part of community
literacy, and teaching literacy strategies as we help teens create videos dramatizing
problem cases as springboards for community-based dialogues. With Donald
Tucker, he has written a guide for people like you, who may be considering
making videos with teens and about teens for wider audiences.
Tim has a special interest in how video scripting techniques can turn narrative into action, writing into speaking, monologue into dialogue, and telling into showing.
His main long-term interest is in non-traditional ways of mentoring, such as collaboration, supporting, and teen-centered mentoring.