She coordinates the undergraduate technology integration courses and the 1-to-1 iPad program for all of the students studying to be teachers in grades pre-K to 12. She became an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2015 and is currently the 2019 Research Chair for the ISTE Conference. Before earning her PhD in instructional systems technology from Indiana University Bloomington, she was a high school science teacher in rural Missouri and a computer science instructor at Northwest Missouri State University.