Carie Lee Page

When she is not Googling her own name or adding entries to her blog, Carie Windham serves as the Program Coordinator for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Her interest in the relationship between campus IT and student success started in the classroom where, as an undergraduate studying history, she discovered that simple online tools and pedagogical methods can lead to greater student engagement. She also turned a keen eye to the characteristics of her classmates as a college editor and Student Government official. Those observations culminated in “The Student’s Perspective,” a chapter in the 2005 EDUCAUSE e-book, “Educating the Net Generation,” edited by Diana and James Oblinger. Most recently, she served as the “Student Relations Specialist” for ELI, sharing secrets of the Millennial Mind in presentations across the nation and white papers on topics from cyberinfrastructure to ensuring today’s students are “Net Savvy.” Recent works include, "Father Google and Mother IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner" in the EDUCAUSE Review and a white paper on info literacy, entitled, "Getting Past Google: Perspectives on Information Literacy from the Millenial Mind." She earned a B.A. in History (2005) from North Carolina State University, where she studied as a Park Scholar, and a M.A. in Irish History and Politics (2007) from the University of Ulster in Derry, Northern Ireland, where she spent one year as a Mitchell Scholar. In her spare time, she tries her own suggestions in the classroom at Noah’s Landing, a non-profit nature center that her family has operated for 10 years.