Graduate Student, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara

Monica Bulger is a Ph.D. candidate in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education’s Language, Literacy, and Composition program.
Her research interests include educational technologies, online reading, and student engagement. The majority of her research focuses on pedagogically sound methods of using technologies as learning tools. For her dissertation research, she is examining the cognitive strategies students use when gathering online information to complete academic assignments. She is an NSF IGERT in Digital Multimedia fellow and graduate researcher with the Transliteracies Project and Center for Information Technology and Society. Before joining Transliteracies, she taught technical and scientific writing for five years in the UCSB Writing Program.

Links: Technology in Education Research Initiative | NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program in Interactive Digital Multimedia | The Hands-On Handbook: A Guide to Teaching Writing in the UCSB Writing Program | South Coast Writing Project

Contributions to Transliteracies Project:
Beyond Search: a Preliminary Skill Set for Online Reading (Research Paper)