Janet Thomas Simons

Janet Thomas Simons is the Faculty Support Group Leader and HILLgroup project leader for Instructional Technology at Hamilton College. Her role includes faculty outreach, faculty development, course design, identification and research of innovative or specialized technologies appropriate to targeted learning goals, and coordination of academic support services to meet teaching and learning needs. Janet specializes in assignment design, digital literacy, and video production. After earning a masters degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Janet taught biology at the college level for eight years. Her efforts to incorporate technology into her courses led to enough research and troubleshooting that she decided to switch careers and work on technology in education fulltime.