Service to the Profession

 

• Co-Chair, Technology Leadership Sig, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE)

 

• Peer reviewer, IGI Global

 

• Peer reviewer, International Journal of Changes in Education (IJCE)

 

• Peer reviewer, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. (I reviewed 17 proposals for the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE) Conference 2023)

 

 

Service to the University

 

• Undergraduate curriculum committee member, IUP’s Department of Professional Studies in Education.

 

• Diversity Peer Educator, IUP's Center for Multicultural Students Leadership and Engagement.

 

• Founder of Amit newsletter, IUP's Center for Multicultural Students Leadership and Engagement (in progress).

 

 

Service to the Community

 

 

• Hospice Volunteer (Concordia-IRMC VNA)

 

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• I contributed to many community-based projects in Qatar that used technology for education and building knowledge and awareness for different individuals and communities, such as:

 

• Teaching literacy to deaf and hard-of-hearing students through enriched subtitling.

• Creating inclusive cinema screenings at Ajyal Festival Film (a film festival designed to empower young people in the Middle East region), where films were subtitled and audio described for audiences with hearing and visual impairments.

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• Working with the education programs in several museums to provide visually impaired visitors with an inclusive learning experience (e.g., tactile sessions and live audio descriptions of selected paintings).

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• Assessing museums' accessibility, including the accessibility to print and digital materials (e.g., brochures, object labels, films).

 

 

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