Research at a Glance:
Education
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Arizona (1999)
B.A. Linguistics, University of Georgia (1993)
Research Interests
Use of Language in Fantasy Role-playing Gaming
Digital Technology and Language Research
Education and Technology
Recent Publications:
Williams, J. Patrick, Sean Q. Hendricks, W. Keith Winkler (eds). (2006). Gaming as Culture: Social Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games. McFarland: Jefferson, NC.
Hendricks, Sean Q. (2006). Incorporative Discourse Strategies in Tabletop Fantasy Role-playing Gaming. In Williams, J.P, S. Q. Hendricks, and W. K. Winkler (eds.), Gaming as Culture: Social Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games. McFarland: Jefferson, NC.
Hendricks, Sean Q. (2004). Boys and Literacy: Three Perspectives. [Review of the books "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys": Literacy in the Lives of Young Men; Boys, Literacy, and Schooling: The Dangerous Territories of Gender Based Literacy Reform; and Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy and Popular Culture]. Linguistics & Education 15: 165-172. Elsevier, Inc.
Curriculum Vitae
Projects
BRIDGE
The BRIDGE (http://www.teachersbridge.org), part of the GSTEP initiative at the University of Georgia, aims to provide teachers across the state of Georgia with shared resources for a variety of content areas and topics related to professional development. The project is also currently implementing communication applications using chat and forum technologies to allow teachers to collaboratively work through issues surrounding their work. I am currently the Project Manager for the BRIDGE.
Adolescents and Smoking
I am currently providing transcription, qualitative analysis and technology support for a project led by Jenifer Monahan at the University of Georgia. This project examines the discourse of focus group interviews of adolescents to gain insights as to how these participants construct their own discourse models around smoking.
Streaming Video to Enhance Feedback to International Teaching Assistants
I am have been involved in a project at the University of Georgia that is designed to assist in the training of international teaching assistants in instructional communication. This project, headed by Don Rubin, involves the use of streaming video and web-based interaction, where students are allowed to provide feedback and critiques of their own and others' presentations. Due to confidentiality concerns, access to the website is restricted, however a demonstration site exists here.
Virtual Museum of Language and Linguistics
I have been a co-chair for a Linguistic Society of America Outreach Committee on developing outreach programs introducing linguistic research and ideas to the general public. The project developing from this committee is the Virtual Museum of Language and Linguistics (http://projects.coe.uga.edu/lsava), a multimedia website that presents work from the linguistic community, including audiovisual material designed by the linguistic community.
Engaging Students in Argumentative Discourse
I have been part of a research team at the University of Georgia, headed by Daniel Hickey. The primary purpose of this project was the development of student and teaching materials designed to help engage students in argumentation. My primary role was in the development of Flash-based animated video rubrics for modeling argumentation and providing a way to help students reflect on and rate their own argumentation. Other projects may expand on this concept, including newer versions of the rubrics.
New Terra: Understanding Language Diversity through Roleplaying
I have been developing a project along with Dr. Betsy Rymes and Dr. Melisa Cahnmann that takes much of the educational research on communities of practice, roleplaying simulations, and fantasy gaming to create an interactive, computer-aided set of teaching tools for modeling and transferring knowledge about language issues. The project goals are to foster critical thinking about language policy, language planning, linguistic diversity and structural linguistics, as part of a curriculum on multicultural studies, language education, and linguistics.
